Touch is a British audio visual company established in 1982 by graphic designer Jon Wozencroft. It releases experimental electronic music by international recording artists in multimedia formats. In 1997, it released the New Order track Video 5-8-6.

Jon Savage is a writer, broadcaster and music journalist known for his cultural commentary on British social history. Born in Paddington, London, on 2 September 1953, Savage graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1975, where he read Classics. He started his journalism career writing fanzine articles about British punk and joined Sounds in 1977. At Sounds, Savage interviewed punk, new wave and electronic music artists. Savage left Sounds for Melody Maker in 1979 where he continued to interview artists recording and performing in the punk, new wave and electronic music genres. In 1980, Savage joined the staff of the new pop culture magazine The Face. He developed his writing on pop culture with articles for The Observer and the New Statesman over the next decade. Savage’s journalism, beginning with his appointment at Sounds in 1977, is strongly connected to the Factory Records story. Savage was the first journalist to review Joy Division both live and as recording artists. Since those first reviews, Savage has been involved in documenting the Joy Division and Factory stories through articles in Sounds, Melody Maker, Mojo, and The Observer Music Monthly. He has acted as a consultant on the Matt Greenhalgh documentary film about Joy Division and on the Anton Corbijn dramatisation Control, as well as working with Deborah Curtis on her book Touching From a Distance. In 2019, Savage wrote This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else, an oral history of Joy Division. In 1991, Savage wrote England’s Dreaming, charting the rise of punk in the UK and US during the 1970s. The book became the basis for the BBC2 documentary Punk and the Pistols, broadcast in 1995 and subsequently updated with a new introduction in 2001. Savage produced Teenage: The pre-history of youth culture in 2007. This work of cultural commentary provides a history of the concept of teenagers from the 1870s to the 1940s. In the book, Savage dates the beginning of the concept of teenagers to 1945. In 2015, Savage published 1966, a commentary on and social history of the popular music and cultural turmoil of that year. Savage is also known for curating compilations of pop songs, some based on track lists from his publications.

Jon Wozencroft was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1958. He gained work experience in print related jobs during his school holidays. As an undergraduate, Wozencroft arranged and promoted concerts and took on music industry work during the university holidays. Wozencroft carried out his postgraduate studies at the London College of Printing (LCP). On leaving LCP in 1982, he worked for the Readers Digest as an art writer and researcher. Six months later, he set up his own multimedia publishing company, Touch. Wozencroft’s contribution to the company was through writing, design, editing and programme production, collaborating with artist and musicians across the world. Wozencroft developed Touch as an alternative to standard audio-visual publishing and, between 1982 and 1986, produced interactive audio-visual magazines such as Feature Mist and Travel. As Managing Editor at Touch, Wozencroft worked with a number of artists, musicians and institutions, including Neville Brody, New Order, Malcolm Garrett and Assorted Images, Peter Saville, Derek Jarman, Jamie Reid, The Royal Academy of Arts and The Commonwealth Institute. As a curator, Wozencroft delivered the Interaction exhibition at Camden Arts Centre in 1986, which explored the history of collaboration between pop artists and musicians. Featured artists included Peter Blake and The Beatles, and Jamie Reid and the Sex Pistols. Wozencroft’s work with fellow graphic designer Brody led to him assisting in setting up the Brody Studio in 1987. The pair curated an exhibition, The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, for the V&A in 1988, which coincided with the publication of Wozencroft’s book of the same name. In 1990, Wozencroft and Brody set up FUSE, an experimental publication focused on graphic design and typography. Between 1987 and 1990, the pair also delivered design projects for organisations such as The Body Shop and Greenpeace, and for the rock band Wire. In 1991, Wozencroft and Jon Savage produced the magazine Vagabond. Savage was Wozencroft’s co-editor and Wozencroft the designer and editor. The magazine was published through Touch. In 1992, Wozencroft took on a teaching role at Central St. Martin's School of Art and Design in London, developing the new BA Graphic Design course. He moved to the Royal College of Art in 1994, where he was the main tutor and assistant course director for the MA in Interactive Multimedia. From 1996, he was Senior Tutor in the Communication Art and Design Department at the Royal College of Art. Wozencroft worked as an editor, designer and photographer on the 1997 Joy Division boxed set, Heart and Soul, issued by London Records.