The archive

All the places
the lines have been.

222 documented finds, and counting. Follow a category, search for a maker, or see what turns up.

The collection

The signal keeps travelling.

222 documented finds.
One very familiar set of lines.

The original Unknown Pleasures album sleeve: white stacked pulse lines on a black square

The original1979

Unknown Pleasures record sleeve

Peter Saville / Joy Division

Close-up of Disney’s Mickey Mouse adaptation of the white Unknown Pleasures pulse lines

Disney’s Mickey Mouse T-shirt

Disney

A black and a white Supreme skateboard deck carrying the Unknown Pleasures pulse graphic

Supreme × Peter Saville skateboards

Supreme / Peter Saville

A black Raf Simons sweater on a wooden hanger with white pulse lines knitted across the front

Raf Simons Unknown Pleasures knit

Raf Simons

Three Dr. Martens boots from the 2018 collaboration; the black boot on the right carries the Unknown Pleasures ridges

Dr. Martens Unknown Pleasures 1460 boots

Dr. Martens

White New Balance Joy Division trainers with wave detailing and the Factory catalogue number FACT 10

New Balance Joy Division trainers

Dylan Adair / New Balance

Vince Staples’ Summertime ’06 album cover, with white ocean-wave contours on a black square

Vince Staples’ Summertime ’06

Vince Staples

The No Music on a Dead Planet mural on a Manchester building, with the pulse lines gradually flattened

In the wild2021

No Music on a Dead Planet mural

Peter Saville / Music Declares Emergency / Withington Walls

A black No Music on a Dead Planet T-shirt with Peter Saville’s flattened pulse-line design

Music Declares Emergency T-shirt

Peter Saville / Music Declares Emergency

Mark Kennedy’s tiled mosaic of the Unknown Pleasures cover on an exterior wall at Afflecks in Manchester

In the wildDate unrecorded

Mark Kennedy’s Afflecks mosaic

Mark Kennedy

A parody shirt reading What is this? above the pulse graphic and I’ve seen it on Tumblr below

Adam J. Kurtz’s What Is This? T-shirt

Adam J. Kurtz

An internet mockup of a Joy Division shirt replacing the pulse stack with the white bars of a heavily redacted document

The redacted-document T-shirt meme

Creator unconfirmed

A T-shirt mockup merging three pulse-line triangles into the Triforce symbol from The Legend of Zelda

RemixesDate unrecorded

The Triforce pulse-line remix

Creator unconfirmed

A computer-generated interpretation of the Unknown Pleasures pulse stack, with new peaks in white on black

DigitalDate unrecorded

The Unknown Pleasures Generator

Denis Vida / dvida

A top-down photograph of a white-ink Unknown Pleasures-inspired pen plot on black paper

Gerald Reisinger’s pen plot

Gerald Reisinger

An unboxed Joy Division Zune music player and its black case, which carries a raised version of the pulse graphic

The Joy Division Zune

Microsoft / Peter Saville

A black Modernica shell chair with Unknown Pleasures pulse lines covering its back and seat

PLEASURES × Joy Division × Modernica chair

PLEASURES / Modernica

A reconstruction of the CP1919 pulse waveform in black lines on a white background

A CP1919 waveform reconstruction

Kakomat

Photograph of page 111 of The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy, showing the black pulse diagram beside text about pulsars

The original1977

The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy, page 111

Harold D. Craft Jr. / edited by Simon Mitton

The 2019 Unknown Pleasures album cover with a small black pulse diagram on a white square

The original2019

Unknown Pleasures: the white 40th anniversary sleeve

Peter Saville / Joy Division / Rhino

Peter Saville’s 2002 Black print, a softly shaded three-dimensional pulse landscape on a black background

Peter Saville: Unknown Pleasures — Black

Peter Saville

Peter Saville’s 2002 White print with a pale three-dimensional pulse landscape against a white field

Peter Saville: Unknown Pleasures — White

Peter Saville

The pale cover of Designed by Peter Saville with a shaded three-dimensional landscape of pulse-like ridges

Designed by Peter Saville

Peter Saville / Princeton Architectural Press

Pug Division — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Pug Division

Chalermphol Harnchakkham / Huebucket

Enjoy Chicago's Known Pleasures — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Enjoy Chicago's Known Pleasures

Harebrained

Unknown Pleasures: Skull — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Unknown Pleasures: Skull

Francis Minoza / Nicebleed

Unknown Pleasures: Great Wave — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Unknown Pleasures: Great Wave

Francis Minoza / Nicebleed

Ramen Division — reference image from NeatoShop

FashionDate unrecorded

Ramen Division

pigboom

Horror Pleasures — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Horror Pleasures

Sylvester Osorio / Pigboom

Kaiju Division — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Kaiju Division

Sylvester Osorio / Pigboom

Joy Division Bat — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Joy Division Bat

Butcher Billy

MTN Division — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

MTN Division

Highly Irie

Pizza Division — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Pizza Division

Jublin

Unknown Colors — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Unknown Colors

John Tibbott / Quick Brown Fox

Glitch Division — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Glitch Division

Dina Prasetyawan / Kooky Love

Known Pleasures — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Known Pleasures

Zilverzki

Night of Joy — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Night of Joy

Nunik Rahmania / Geoartmetry

Bike Division — reference image from Threadless

FashionDate unrecorded

Bike Division

Ninhol

Unknown Pleasures Hoodie — reference image from New Order Official Store

FashionDate unrecorded

Unknown Pleasures Hoodie

Joy Division / official New Order store

Unknown Pleasures White T-Shirt — reference image from New Order Official Store

FashionDate unrecorded

Unknown Pleasures White T-Shirt

Joy Division / official New Order store

Unknown Pleasures Text Black T-Shirt — reference image from New Order Official Store

FashionDate unrecorded

Unknown Pleasures Text Black T-Shirt

Joy Division / official New Order store

Sync. Reflective Unknown Pleasures Tote — reference image from Sync. / Medicom Toy

Sync. Reflective Unknown Pleasures Tote

Sync. / Medicom Toy × Joy Division

Sync. Unknown Pleasures Jet Cap — reference image from Sync. / Medicom Toy

Sync. Unknown Pleasures Jet Cap

Sync. / Medicom Toy × Joy Division

Sync. Unknown Pleasures Pullover Hoodie — reference image from Sync. / Medicom Toy

Sync. Unknown Pleasures Pullover Hoodie

Sync. / Medicom Toy × Joy Division

Sync. Reflective Unknown Pleasures T-shirt — reference image from Sync. / Medicom Toy

Sync. Reflective Unknown Pleasures T-shirt

Sync. / Medicom Toy × Joy Division

Ian Curtis Cycling Top — reference image from RedMolotov

FashionDate unrecorded

Ian Curtis Cycling Top

RedMolotov / Sigur Sportswear

Ian Curtis Football Shirt — reference image from RedMolotov

FashionDate unrecorded

Ian Curtis Football Shirt

RedMolotov / Sigur Sportswear

CP1919 Pulsar Revere Shirt — reference image from RedMolotov

FashionDate unrecorded

CP1919 Pulsar Revere Shirt

RedMolotov / Sigur Sportswear