“When I was 15, in the North-west of England…. the record cover to me was like a picture window to another world. Seeing an Andy Warhol illustration on a Velvet Underground album was a revelation…. It was the art of your generation… true pop art.” - Peter Saville.

In little more than one square foot, the album cover captured the dreams, hopes and fears of a music-loving generation. If CDs left the record sleeve mortally wounded, downloading has performed the coup de grâce on album artwork. Read more here.

Designer Peter Saville, whose Factory Records artwork included Joy Division and New Order album covers curates Spin: The Art of Cover Design. In this exhibition, Saville has chosen some of the best LP cover art of the past 40 years of work by former students of University of the Arts London.