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The Story of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover (2015)
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- badcede 9y agohttp://www.deathdollsnyc.com/product/depeche-mode-boys-don-t-cry-division-tee http://www.deathdollsnyc.com/product/depeche-mode-boys-don-t...
- kagamine 9y agoIs that deliberately Engrish style? A band name with the album title of a different band (The Cure are known for Boys Don't Cry, not Depeche Mode) with album art from Joy Division. Looking at that I felt my mind collapse in on itself.
- panzerklein 9y agohttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-qF6CbJo2vY/TQlmBXyC8JI/AAAAAAAAK4U/srrQ0kmkZlQ/s1600/how%2Bto%2Bpiss%2Boff%2Bnerds.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-qF6CbJo2vY/TQlmBXyC8JI/AAAAAAAAK4...
- deepakg 9y agoIt has also recently inspired a ggplot (R) visualisation: https://github.com/clauswilke/ggjoy https://github.com/clauswilke/ggjoy
- altotrees 9y agoSuch an iconic album cover. I know people who knew the cover/design way before they even knew who Joy Division was.
- ams6110 9y agoNever heard of Joy Division nor seen this album cover before.
- andybak 9y agoMind if I ask your age and nationality? EDIT: Maybe a more interesting question, can you give a couple of examples of your favourite albums/songs/bands?
- ams6110 9y ago50, American. I like rock, punk, garage, and some country.
- andybak 9y agoSo the punk thing didn't extend to British post-punk? Growing up in the UK (born 1971) with an interest in an alternative music, Joy Division were just canon.
- anaheim_ducks2 9y agoI'm guessing you're from the Midwest. Maybe from a rural area. No way you've never heard of Joy Division if you lived on the coasts. Please name some rock and punks bands you liked growing up.
- __david__ 9y agoLove Will Tear Us Apart received significant airplay in the US, at least where I grew up in the 80s. Even if you’ve never heard of the band, you might know that one song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No
- Bulkington 9y agoI became a recent fan after catching a feature film [0] and a documentary [1] about the band. Worth a look and listen. [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/ [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1097239/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1097239/
- abe_duarte 9y agoGreat album, Joy division is a legendary band.
- mkl 9y ago4 years ago there was a similar story on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728124 And I was bored or something back then and made a Python program that generates random pictures like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5729268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5729268 e.g. http://imgur.com/PtkkESv http://imgur.com/PtkkESv
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y agoI like the next entry, My Number 1 Spring Cleaning Tip "If you haven’t used it in the past year, get rid of it. [...] chances are you probably won’t use it this year, and the unlikeliness of utility will just compound year after year after year." https://adamcap.com/2011/04/12/my-number-1-spring-cleaning-tip/ https://adamcap.com/2011/04/12/my-number-1-spring-cleaning-t...
- tapia 9y agoIt is just nice to see how the creator of the image just loved to see his work being used there and did not instantly think about suing the band. Not something you would expect to happen nowadays.
- Neil44 9y agoI love what Peter Saville was doing with his art back then, bringing industrial cues into places that both contrasted and chimed so beatully. I love his Power Corruption & Lies cover where he just adds the colour bar, so simple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power,_Corruption_%26_Lies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power,_Corruption_%26_Lies If you look at the promo stuff he was doing for Factory Records in the late 70s and 80s it still looks great today.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoI think Peter Saville possibly qualifies for the genius label. If you compare the industry standard sleeve and poster designs of that time with his work for Factory, it's like getting visual communications from another world. (Literally, with the Unknown Pleasures art.) He completely transformed the industry's approach to imagery - and I suspect that neither Joy Division nor New Order would have been nearly as successful without his iconic covers.
- Doctor_Fegg 9y agoAnd for a long period, too: the covers for True Faith (1987) and Technique (1989) were still startling in their newness. (If I ever come into serious money I'm buying this: https://fineartmultiple.com/buy-art/peter-saville-monarch-of-the-glen/ https://fineartmultiple.com/buy-art/peter-saville-monarch-of... ...) Worth noting that the pulsar image was actually found by Bernard Sumner/Albrecht, Joy Division's guitarist (and later New Order's singer), though of course Saville transformed it from found imagery to iconic sleeve.
- Neil44 9y agoHe's great. Theres a book you should check out, 'Designed by Peter Saville', it's got a lot of his work from that period.
- joezydeco 9y agoHis work on Tony Wilson's headstone (FAC-501) is pretty fantastic, too. http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/2651/peter-saville-on-tony-wilsons-headstone http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/2651/peter-saville...
- theoh 9y agoIt's funny that just five years ago, the book "Unknown Pleasures" (by Peter Hook) used the same image on its cover with the claim that attempts to trace the copyright holder had been unsuccessful. When I saw it in a bookshop it seemed like a kind of dismissal of the scientific origins of the image: it was well known where Peter Saville had got it from, though beyond that perhaps the copyright was a mystery. As far as appearance goes, a similar-looking technique for shading relief maps was invented by Kitiro Tanaka in the 1930s: http://www.mountaincartography.org/mt_hood/pdfs/kennelly2.pdf http://www.mountaincartography.org/mt_hood/pdfs/kennelly2.pd... Original paper by Tanaka https://www.jstor.org/stable/1785198 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1785198
- raldu 9y agoAnyone noticed the 1337 from the article? > "Successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered, CP 1919, are here superimposed vertically. The pulses occur every 1.337 seconds."
- kagamine 9y agoSomeone on intergalactic IRC is trying to contact us. 1.337, it's not Pi but it'll have to do for now.
- zeristor 9y agoThis has been reinterpreted with cats, I saw someone wearing this T-shirt in Camden the other day. http://www.animalsyeahyeah.com/mens-c7/unknown-pleasures-cats-t-shirt-p744 http://www.animalsyeahyeah.com/mens-c7/unknown-pleasures-cat...
- fizzychicken 9y agoI have, what I beleive to be a slightly better version of that, from here https://www.threadless.com/product/5040/Furr_Division/style,design https://www.threadless.com/product/5040/Furr_Division/style,...
- chiph 9y agoThe design has been "borrowed" by any number of firms. I have an O'Neill (surf gear) shirt with a version of it. And there was a Disney one with Mickey's outline in the waves. It seems to have entered the under-mind, as being "that design with the lines" and few people know the origin any more.
- ramparrt 9y agoIn the film 500 Days of Summer, Tom (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) wears a shirt with this design on it. I have a similar shirt and had no idea what the design was. I know Joy Division, I was familiar with songs on the album, but had never actually seen the cover. My postman, a man in his mid-50s called me out one day, asking me if I was a Joy Division fan. I said yes and asked why he would ask that and he just pointed to my shirt. I assume he thinks i'm a tragic hipster now...
- mmjaa 9y agoJoy Division fans were tragic hipsters before there were hipsters, yo. So, no worries. :)
- ohdrat 9y agojim morrison split into two when he passed, one half became ian the other half became ted nugent
- pdkl95 9y agoI always thought it looked like Rutt-Etra synthesis, which often has similar "raster line" effect. Original hardware (1972) w/ good example of the effect (2nd image down): http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/ruttetra/ruttetra.htm http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/ruttetra/r... Minimalist example of the effect: https://imgur.com/E5tfUuQ https://imgur.com/E5tfUuQ (webgl tool used to make that example): https://airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/ruttetra/ https://airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/ruttetra/
- metakermit 9y agoTensorFlow's dashboard TensorBoard has a stacked plot visualisation inspired by this album cover: http://nerdyembeddedcomputers.review/hands-on-tensorboard-tensorflow-dev-summit-2017/ http://nerdyembeddedcomputers.review/hands-on-tensorboard-te...