Trevor Johnson (born in Salford, Lancashire) is a

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

-based

graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...

. He started his career as a commercial illustrator and went on to become a

freelance ''Freelance'' (sometimes spelled ''free-lance'' or ''free lance''), ''freelancer'', or ''freelance worker'', are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance w ...

, designing record sleeves and branding for

Factory Records Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label founded in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus. The label featured several important acts on its roster, including Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, the Durutt ...

and

Hacienda An ''hacienda'' ( or ; or ) is an estate (or ''finca''), similar to a Roman ''latifundium'', in Spain and the former Spanish Empire. With origins in Andalusia, ''haciendas'' were variously plantations (perhaps including animals or orchards), ...

Nightclub Fac 51 which was instrumental in the creation of the

Madchester Madchester was a musical and cultural scene that developed in the English city of Manchester in the late 1980s, closely associated with the indie dance scene. Indie-dance (sometimes referred to as indie-rave) saw artists merging indie music w ...

music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. His designs created as Trevor Johnson and with his partner business Johnson/Panas for

are documented in the Factory Records Catalogue of

sleeves A sleeve ( ang, slīef, a word allied to '' slip'', cf. Dutch ) is the part of a garment that covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips. The sleeve is a characteristic of fashion seen in almost every country and time period, ac ...

and merchandise and company promotional material.Factory: design by numbers

Publications

*Factory Records The Complete Graphic Album FAC 461 - M, Robertson - Thames & Hudson (2006) - *The Art of The Club Flyer - N, Ackland Snow / N, Brett / S, Williams - Thames & Hudson (1996) (Reprinted 2001) - *Sublime - Manchester Music and Design 1976-1992 - A, Spinoza/B, Bytheway/D, Crow - Cornerhouse Publications (September 1992) - *''The Hacienda Must Be Built'' - J, Savage - International Music Publications (1992) -

References

English graphic designers People from Salford Living people Madchester Year of birth missing (living people) {{graphic-designer-stub