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Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album (Hardcover)

by Matthew Roberston (Author), Matthew Robertson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0500513007
  • ISBN-13: 978-0500513002
  • Product Dimensions: 29.6 x 25.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,928 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`The publishing house has rarely put a foot wrong in its 60-year history' --GQ --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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'A stunning collector's catalogue of modern design' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars FAC 461, 28 Dec 2008
By Alex DeLarge (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album (Paperback)
Fac 461: "Factory Records The Complete Graphic Album" is a welcome addition to the ever-growing library of books on the subject of Factory.

It wins above the Peter Saville graphic design book even though there is some not inconsiderable overlap with Saville's book. The reason for this is that it wisely (apart from a typically inspired AHW foreword) lets the images speak for themselves, just like they used to have to do in record shops and on posters and flyers, on walls and in teenagers' bedrooms.

Now, I know that the Saville book was an overview of Saville's career and not a Factory image compendium, but let's be realistic here - did anyone actually buy "Designed" for Suede and Pulp covers, or for its (in places) second-rate essays? I know I didn't. The leaf and the mod parkas were smart though.

Anyway - Fac 461 shows brilliantly why Factory was a better class of record label. Compare Factory sleeve artwork to that of Rough Trade in Rob Young's excellent Rough Trade: Labels Unlimited - and it's quickly apparent that Factory was the indie label, and RT was really in outlook just a major label with scabbier knees.

"The Complete Graphic Album" also wins for the quality of the reproduction of images, and also the way the images are arranged and backgrounded. Although (minor quibble) both "Designed" and this book haven't managed to do justice to the artwork for Section 25's 'From The Hip' - in both books they make this influential and evocative sleeve look like Mick Hucknall's hair. Sorry Mick.

My personal favourite sleeve design is Fact 50: Movement. Is it the colour, the typeface, the association with the music inside, or what?

All in all - an outstanding work and one that deserves its place in the Factory catalogue.



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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Requiem for the dream, 5 Aug 2006
By Gms Carroll - See all my reviews
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Its weird Factory Records was one of them things that you only missed once it had gone. As I scanned through the book I saw so much that I recognised from going clubbing in the North of England and living through the whole baggie era. Like most things in history you only appreciate what was happening around you in retrospect.

The book is beautifully made, however I found Muir and Holt's book on on 8vo On the the outside even more insightful.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Legacy., 21 Aug 2007
By Mr. I. S. Mchugh "IMH" (IoM) - See all my reviews
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Legacy. That was the word that kept popping into my head as I turned page after page of this book.

With Anthony H. Wilson's untimely recent death this book truly shows that his visual epitaph is an outstanding one.

Certainly befitting of a Factory Catalougue number all of its own.
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