Joy Division’s iconic debut album cover features a strange white-on-black pattern that has appeared on a million t-shirts since 1979. But what actually IS it?

The cover of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures is famously graced with the radio pulses of a dying star. Its origins, however, have always been unclear. But now, Scientific American’s Jen ...

A few years ago, the cover was the subject of a four-minute documentary, Data Visualization Reinterpreted: The Story of Joy Division‘s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Design, in which graphic ...

It was otherworldly—right up to its blackened imagery of neutron pulses on its cover. An image of a stacked ... which is local to Manchester and Joy Division.” Saville added, “And it ...

Joy Division was a rock-and-roll band from the ... the same can be said for its cover. The album art, for good or ill, has arguably surpassed the music in terms of ubiquity, if not necessarily ...

Fans of the band should instantly recognize the inspiration behind this three-way project, as the style is directly inspired by Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover. The sneaker dons a ...

Tomorrow, Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds will release their new album Council Skies ... covering fellow Manchester legends Joy Division. In their Piano Room session, Noel Gallagher ...

Noel Gallagher has saluted his Manchester rock forefathers Joy Division by covering the band ... tied to tomorrow’s release of his latest album, Council Skies, which features two songs with ...

An NFT celebrating Joy Division‘s wavy Unknown Pleasures artwork will include previously unheard vocal samples from the band. The new piece renders the pulsar from the cover as audio ...