Did you know that the cover to Joy Division’sUnknown Pleasuresis from an astronomy encyclopedia?

The screen to Joy Division ’s 1979 album Unknown Pleasures is incredibly iconic , enliven everything from tattoos tot - shirt sold at Disneyland . But what you may not know is that this image is actually a diagram from the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy .

Graphic artist Peter Saville — who also design the infamously expensive single sleeve for New Order ’s “ Blue Monday ” — excuse how the set want a “ relative path manifestation of the relative frequency of a sign of a pulsar ” as their cover illustration . Watch Saville recall the arm ’s account in the above video .

[ VisualizedviaThe Creators Project ]