![Scientific American - January 1971 - Pages 52-53
With all the hoopla going on about the mickey mouse “unknown pleasures” rip-off dominating the blogosphere recently, I decided to do a little research on the origins of the famous joy division album art. (because somewhere i had heard that it was graph of an ian curtis orgasm which turns out to be completely unfounded) Thanks to google, it didn’t take me long to find out where it originated from… a clever fellow named adam capriola quotes the wiki and writes more about it here.
“The front cover image comes from an edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, and was originally drawn with black lines on a white background.[13] It presents successive pulses from the first pulsardiscovered, PSR B1919+21—often referred to in the context of this album by its older name, CP 1919.[13] The image was suggested by drummer Stephen Morris[13] and the cover design is credited to Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydxd3teQY1qzj7lco1_500.jpg)
Scientific American - January 1971 - Pages 52-53
With all the hoopla going on about the mickey mouse “unknown pleasures” rip-off dominating the blogosphere recently, I decided to do a little research on the origins of the famous joy division album art. (because somewhere i had heard that it was graph of an ian curtis orgasm which turns out to be completely unfounded) Thanks to google, it didn’t take me long to find out where it originated from… a clever fellow named adam capriola quotes the wiki and writes more about it here.
“The front cover image comes from an edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, and was originally drawn with black lines on a white background.[13] It presents successive pulses from the first pulsardiscovered, PSR B1919+21—often referred to in the context of this album by its older name, CP 1919.[13] The image was suggested by drummer Stephen Morris[13] and the cover design is credited to Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan.”
