cp1919 Found one?

An archive of one of rock and roll’s most iconic images

One image.
Everywhere.

What makes it iconic today is how far it has travelled beyond the album. T-shirts, tattoos, posters, sneakers, and countless parodies. One signal, with a life of its own.

How did we get here?
The actual Unknown Pleasures pulse graphic, cropped from the 1979 sleeve in MoMA’s collectionOriginal sleeve / 1979
A random transmission03 / 222

Objects / 2005

From record grooves to grip tape

The pulse stack goes skating. A pair of Supreme decks turns the sleeve into an object you can actually ride.

Supreme / Peter Saville

Explore this find
A black and a white Supreme skateboard deck carrying the Unknown Pleasures pulse graphicSupreme × Peter Saville skateboards
Not just a record cover.A graphic with a life of its own.Follow the signal
The collection

The signal keeps travelling.

222 documented finds.
One very familiar set of lines.

Explore the whole archive
FashionObjectsTattoosIn the wildRemixesDigitalThe originalFollow a line. See where it leads.
Before the T-shirts

It started with
a star.

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed an unusually regular radio signal. Twelve years later, a plot of that pulsar’s emissions appeared on a record with no name on its front.

The people between those two moments made something none of them could have planned.

The story behind the lines

Make your own signal

Keep the signal going

Seen these lines somewhere?

A shop window. A tattoo. A spectacularly ill-advised cake.
There’s always another place they’ve turned up.

Add to the archive

Pass the signal on.