Did anyone find any of Peter Saville's cardboard guitars which were suppoused to have been 'planted' around London town (a few weeks ago I think)?
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digitalwaters wrote: Did anyone find any of Peter Saville's cardboard guitars which were suppoused to have been 'planted' around London town (a few weeks ago I think)?
ER......NO.
Never heard anything since - I reckon most of them were thrown away by slightly irate street cleaners!
ant wrote: Never heard anything since - I reckon most of them were thrown away by slightly irate street cleaners!
You're probably right. It's a cruel cruel world...
No but I bought one of the Saville-Supreme skateboard decks from the USA. Unknown Pleasures design, what a sucker.
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Here ya go;
Go to worldinmotion.com, scroll down towards the bottom of the page and you'll see the story and a piccy of the guitar....
July 2nd, 2005 www.nme.com: FOR PETE'S SAKE!
Work by NEW ORDER’s sleeve designer is set to appear all over LONDON – and fans can take it home for free.
Around 500 guitar cut outs designed by Peter Saville will be left across the capital to promote the launch of new hand-held game and music consol the Sony PSP, and they can be taken home by those who find them.
In additional, 50 of the cut-outs will be signed by Saville, while a further 20 have been customised by up and coming British artists.
Saville is famous for designing all of New Order’s sleeves, including the floppy disc cover for the ’Blue Monday’ 12” single, as well as creating album sleeves for the likes of Suede and Pulp.
The guitar cut-outs will appear on London’s streets between July 21 and August 1.
digitalwaters wrote: Here ya go;
Go to worldinmotion.com, scroll down towards the bottom of the page and you'll see the story and a piccy of the guitar....
July 2nd, 2005 www.nme.com: FOR PETE'S SAKE!
Work by NEW ORDER’s sleeve designer is set to appear all over LONDON – and fans can take it home for free.
Around 500 guitar cut outs designed by Peter Saville will be left across the capital to promote the launch of new hand-held game and music consol the Sony PSP, and they can be taken home by those who find them.
In additional, 50 of the cut-outs will be signed by Saville, while a further 20 have been customised by up and coming British artists.
Saville is famous for designing all of New Order’s sleeves, including the floppy disc cover for the ’Blue Monday’ 12” single, as well as creating album sleeves for the likes of Suede and Pulp.
The guitar cut-outs will appear on London’s streets between July 21 and August 1.
Thank you very much, DigitalWaters! 
