Slopes | Tinkersynth
Have fun with this little machine, tweaking the parameters for generating a Joy Division/Jocelyn Bell-Burnell data visualisation.
The interface is quite delightful!
Tags: joydivision
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
Sunday, May 13th, 2018
Unworn Pleasures
I’ve made no secret of my admiration of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and how Peter Saville’s iconic cover design for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures always reminds of her.
There are many, many memetic variations of that design.
I assumed that somebody somewhere at some time must have made a suitable tribute to the discover of those pulses, but I’ve never come across any Jocelyn-themed variation of the Joy Division album art.
The test order I did just showed up, and it’s looking pretty nice (although be warned that the sizes run small—I ordered a large, and I probably should’ve gone for extra large). If your music/radio-astronomy Venn diagram overlaps like mine, then you too might enjoy being the proud bearer of this wearable tribute to Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Sunday, May 8th, 2016
The Joy of Sparks
This is so cool! The logs of the Indie Web Camp IRC channel visualised as a series of sparklines in the style of Joy Division/Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Sunday, October 21st, 2012
Data Visualization Reinterpreted by VISUALIZED on Vimeo
Peter Saville talks about the enduring appeal of his cover for Unknown Pleasures.
I like to think of all the variations and mashups as not just tributes to Joy Division, but tributes to Jocelyn Bell Burnell too.
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
YouTube - Playmobil Stop Motion - Joy Division - Transmission
Hooky never looked so good.
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Peter Saville Graphic Design - fonts
Peter Saville is releasing some of his fonts for free. I'm grabbing the beautiful serif typeface used on the front of Joy Division's "Closer"; it's gorgeous.