Joy Division / Rhino, 2019. Sleeve design by Peter Saville. Image supplied in Rhino’s anniversary release announcement.
The original / 2019
Unknown Pleasures: the white 40th anniversary sleeve
Forty years later, the album returned in a white sleeve with black pulses, wrapped around a ruby-red record.
- Made by
- Peter Saville / Joy Division / Rhino
- Year
- 2019
- Catalogued
Rhino released this anniversary LP on 14 June 2019, pressed on 180-gram ruby-red vinyl. Its alternative white cover reverses the colour relationship of the familiar 1979 sleeve.
New Order’s official anniversary account describes the white sleeve as Saville’s original colour intention. This is a record edition, separate from the black and white fine-art prints Saville made in 2002.
