Is 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.
Love 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
A difficult thing to describe. Joy Division was a product of a man tortured by his internal demons. To me, their music was never really about the usual topics. It was about the a desire for a just (yet unattainable) world given the barbarism of everyday life.
If you're fifty, it may be trite idealism but to a teenager in the 1980s who could see the shallowness of it all but could not express it, Joy Division was wonderful. And because of Ian Curtis' suicide, that added to the authenticity and romance of it.
Of course suicide is never something to romanticize and is a painful tragedy that leaves family and friends with wounds that will never fully heal. The experience of an adult eventually override the idealism of youth.
I 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."
It 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.
I 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.
I 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.
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.
I had a friend who collected Factory Records 12" for the sleeves (music too, but even if we didn't like the music, we got the record). I used to go around the record shops and search with him. Was too broke to do it for myself alone. The album art by Factory was sometimes better than the music on the record.
It'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:
The 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.
In 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...
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 80.2 ms ] threadEDIT: Maybe a more interesting question, can you give a couple of examples of your favourite albums/songs/bands?
Growing up in the UK (born 1971) with an interest in an alternative music, Joy Division were just canon.
Please name some rock and punks bands you liked growing up.
[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/ [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1097239/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274309/
It's good fun (apart from the obvious not fun bit) but nowhere as good as Control.
You don't have to override it completely. Some hold onto a bit of both. Things can still happen you wouldn't anticipate.
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 e.g. http://imgur.com/PtkkESv
"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-t...
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.
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.
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.
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/2651/peter-saville...
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.pd...
Original paper by Tanaka https://www.jstor.org/stable/1785198
> "Successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered, CP 1919, are here superimposed vertically. The pulses occur every 1.337 seconds."
http://www.animalsyeahyeah.com/mens-c7/unknown-pleasures-cat...
https://www.threadless.com/product/5040/Furr_Division/style,...
It seems to have entered the under-mind, as being "that design with the lines" and few people know the origin any more.
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...
Original hardware (1972) w/ good example of the effect (2nd image down): http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/ruttetra/r...
Minimalist example of the effect: https://imgur.com/E5tfUuQ
(webgl tool used to make that example): https://airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/ruttetra/
http://nerdyembeddedcomputers.review/hands-on-tensorboard-te...