The convergence of my encoding project, collage project, and the new movie by Anton Corbijin have rekindled my interest in Joy Division. The movie was brilliant, but I recounted that I bought Transmission in 1984, so I've been a fan for 23 years now.

I have Unknown Pleasure and Closer on CD from Factory as imports. They came with the unusual CD Car Carrying Case. I haven't seen these anywhere else. Download UP front, UP back, C front, and C back.

All of the events made me think about how much I liked Peter Saville's covers. Visit his website here. Unfortunately, all of my scans of Unknown Pleasure have resulted in an unsatisfactory computer image. So I decided to try a vectorization service from Stanford. The results were quite impressive. See for yourself. I made a small collage of my vectorized results and Peter's 2003 version of the album cover. Download desktop.

Stanford Vector Project

Photos from Control