One of the most iconic pieces of music design and a testament to a band that arguably formulated an entire genre or movement, the cover image itself is beautifully simplistic and in this case is the main strength of the design. What I find really interesting about the ‘unknown pleasures mountains’ is that despite being an important image before it’s use by factory records; the success of its use on the highly influential album has made it synonymous with Joy division.
The cover image of this album is not what makes it special to me. The whole concept of the album and the emptiness that it produced represented the album brilliantly, the fabric card that the sleeve is constructed from and the absence of a track listing make a must in the top ten.
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