FAC 73

How does it feel
To Get Fleeced Like you do
You wrote the best selling 12" of all time
And lost money on every one

This is the front cover of New Orders most famous single Blue Monday designed by one of my favourite designers Peter Saville. There will be lots of his work appearing on this blog. Saville was part of a social experiment collectively known as Factory Records headed bt the late great Tony Wilson.

Each piece of work produced by Factory was catalogued with a number (FAC - followed by the numeric order it was created, in this case FAC 73). Saville based this design on a 5.25 - inch floppy discs which were used to record the music electronically, drawing a parallel between the advanced nature of the disc and the track itself.

Due to the use of die-cutting and specified colours meant the production cost of the sleeve was so high that the single sold at a loss.

What a complete FAC up!