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Peter Saville on Joy Division and Data Visualization

This is the first video in a series about the new language of data and its impact on culture. The videos have been created for the VISUALIZED conference, Nov 8 & 9, 2012, in New York City. Over 30 years ago, designer Peter Saville crafted the album cover for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures. 

Thanks, Doris

Star Trek vs. Joy Division

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Studio Parris Wakefield:

Tasked with the brief of ‘deep space and nebulae’, Howard Wakefield researched through the collection of Nasa imagery at SpaceImages. While tempted with a nebula called Factory, its name was too good to be true, for it didn’t compare with the more expansive deep blue nebula of Hubble NGC 346 SMC. Peter Saville was keen to see how it could be transformed from being purely documentary, so suggested an inverted, monochrome version.

visualization of covers of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart

via The Luxury of Protest