8vo (design)

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8vo is a London-based graphic design firm formed in 1985 by Simon Johnston, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir.^[1]

1 Designs for Durutti Column and Factory Records
2 Octavo magazine
3 References
4 External links
5 Notes

[edit] Designs for Durutti Column and Factory Records

8vo produced the artwork for many Factory Records records sleeves and promotional material. [1] 8vo produced sleeves for music for the band Durutti Column including Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say [2], Domo Arigato [3], Circuses and Bread [4], Valuable Passages [5], When the World [6], The Guitar and Other Machines [7] and Obey the Time [8].

[edit] 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).^[2] [9]

[edit] References

8vo: On the Outside, by Mark Holt and Hamish Muir, Lars Müller Publishers, 2005. (ISBN 978-3037780190)
Eye, Number 37, Volume 10, Autumn 2000. [10]