Nicholas de Ville

Nicholas de Ville (* 1944 ) is a British graphic artist and author. Since 1972 he has mainly designed sound carrier packaging and is the author of various essays on contemporary art.

Professional background

Nicholas de Ville attended Abbotsholme , a boarding school in Staffordshire , from 1953 to 1962 . He then studied architecture for one year at the University of Manchester and three years in fine arts at the Derby Art School . From 1965 to 1969 he studied art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .

Together with his former classmate Brian Ferry , De Ville has designed most of the covers for the albums by Roxy Music and Brian Ferry since 1972 . De Ville also holds a chair at Goldsmiths College , London, where he has been teaching since 1971. He writes about the approach to his work as a product designer in Album - Style and Image in Sleeve Design , which was published in 2003.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1990 artist project Over Schilderen Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten , Amsterdam.
• 1992/1993 Refusing to Surface: Art and the Transfiguration of the Ordinary , John Hansard Gallery , Southampton, Ikon Gallery , Birmingham and South London Gallery , London.

Literature (selection)

• Nick de Ville: Album - Style and Image in Sleeve Design , Mitchell Beazley, 2003, ISBN 978-184000-605-6 .
• Nick de Ville Malcolm Morley - Life After Death? - Modern Painters, 2001 Autumn. ISSN  0953-6698 .

Cover design (selection)

• 1972 Roxy Music , Roxy Music
• 1973 Stranded , Roxy Music
• 1973 For Your Pleasure , Roxy Music
• 1974 Kimono My House , Sparks
• 1974 Country Live , Roxy Music
• 1975 United States , King Crimson
• 1978 Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts , The Adverts
• 1994 Mamouna , Bryan Ferry
• 1999 Taxi , Bryan Ferry
• 2000 The Early Years , Roxy Music

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nick de Ville ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Goldsmith University in London. 
2. ↑ Mark Edwards: The Best of Both Worlds? in Arena Magazin, September 1994.

Web links

• Nicholas de Ville at Discogs (English)
• Three graphics by Nick de Ville