Available in our retail shop or in our new online shop #joydivision #unknownpleasures #redvinyl #iancurtis #anniversary #vinyladdict #nowplaying #vinyl #records #vinylcollection #nowspinning #recordshop #record #cratedigger #recordstoreday #vinyligclub #onmyturntable #instavinyl #musiclover #vinyljunkie #truro #cornwallĪ post shared by Music Nostalgia on at 8:05am PDTĪ textured sleeve was added to give the expanse of black a “more tactile quality”. When Joy Division were looking to release their debut album with Tony Wilson’s Factory Records in the summer of 1979, they went to the label’s in-house designer Peter Saville to discuss the cover. If you take the obelisk out of that movie, it has that same black shape.” I was building synthesisers - they took months to build, soldering all the components, and I’d have 2001: A Space Odyssey playing in the background. “In Joy Division, I had insomnia and stayed up very late. One of the images I found was the Unknown Pleasures image that clicked with me straight away. I'd read through the books in search of inspiration. “They had a good art section and a good science section. He told Maxim in 2015: “On my lunch break, I'd go to the Manchester Central Library, and get a sandwich at the cafe. It was here that Bernard Sumner - himself a graphic designer working at the Cosgrove Hall animation studios in Chorlton, Manchester - saw the image. the original source illustration from the 1978 astronomy book for the palimpsest that is now #unknownpleasures #joydivision #cambridgeencyclopediaofastronomy #1978 #edition #old #book #palimpsest #intertextualityĪ post shared by Gareth Courage on at 3:10am PDT They’re not exactly the same each time as they’re travelling a long way across the universe and interference gets in the way.Īs Jen Christiansen of Scientific American discovered in an exhaustive feature, the image was originally published in their very own magazine in January 1971, where it appeared as white on a bright blue background, a bit like this recreation (so those brightly coloured t-shirts ARE allowed): Each line on the image is an individual pulse. As the star turns, it emits electromagnetic radiation in a beam like a lighthouse, which can be picked up by radio telescopes. Originally named CP 1919, the pulsar was discovered in November 1967 by student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University. In simple terms, the image is a “stacked plot” of the radio emissions given out by a pulsar, a “rotating neutron star”. Although one suggestion was close.Ī mock up of the "cyan" Unknown Pleasures design as it appeared in Scientific American in 1971.
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