8vo (design)
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8vo is a London
London
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-based graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

 firm formed in 1985 by Simon Johnston, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir.

Designs for Durutti Column and Factory Records

8vo produced the artwork for many Factory Records
Factory Records
Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside and James and...

 records sleeves and promotional material. http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/8voportfolio.html 8vo produced sleeves for music for the band Durutti Column including Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/fac114.html, Domo Arigato http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/fact144.html, Circuses and Bread http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/facd154.html, Valuable Passages http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/facd164.html, When the World http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/fac194.html, The Guitar and Other Machines http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/facd204.html and Obey the Time http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/facd274.html.

Octavo magazine

8vo produced eight issues of Octavo – a magazine with a heavy structural, typographic aesthetic from 1986 to 1992 (the last issue was released as a CD-ROM). http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/8vo1.html

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