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

Music Declares Emergency, campaign product photograph.

Fashion / 2021

Music Declares Emergency T-shirt

The sleeve’s own designer turns the pulse stack into a climate message, with flat lines standing in for a silent planet.

Made by
Peter Saville / Music Declares Emergency
Year
2021
Catalogued

Music Declares Emergency identifies this as a 2021 reworking by Peter Saville. The campaign uses the disappearing signal as a visual argument for climate action.

It is an unusually direct update to a graphic often borrowed without explanation. Here the changed lines and the campaign text work together, and the organisation describes the design’s intention in its own words.

Follow the evidence

Where the original lines came from

Pass the signal on.