Kind of a tribute to Peter Saville’s album cover for Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, which turned 40 in 2019.
I’ve always wanted to try and do something with this nothing less than iconic album cover. This cover also exists at a unique intersection of astrophysics and music.
The figure, as has been reported, was created by astronomy grad student Harold Craft and first published in his PhD thesis in 1970. It depicts 80 successive radio frequency periods from the first discovered pulsar, CP1919. The version used for the album cover was in turn lifted from 1977 version of the The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy, by Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris, who passed it on to Peter Saville.
I’ve always wanted to try and do something with this nothing less than iconic album cover. This cover also exists at a unique intersection of astrophysics and music.
The figure, as has been reported, was created by astronomy grad student Harold Craft and first published in his PhD thesis in 1970. It depicts 80 successive radio frequency periods from the first discovered pulsar, CP1919. The version used for the album cover was in turn lifted from 1977 version of the The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy, by Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris, who passed it on to Peter Saville.
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