https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power,_Corruption_%26_Lies
If you look at the promo stuff he was doing for Factory Records in the late 70s and 80s it still looks great today.
If you compare the industry standard sleeve and poster designs of that time with his work for Factory, it's like getting visual communications from another world. (Literally, with the Unknown Pleasures art.)
He completely transformed the industry's approach to imagery - and I suspect that neither Joy Division nor New Order would have been nearly as successful without his iconic covers.
Worth noting that the pulsar image was actually found by Bernard Sumner/Albrecht, Joy Division's guitarist (and later New Order's singer), though of course Saville transformed it from found imagery to iconic sleeve.
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/2651/peter-saville...
[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/ [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1097239/
EDIT: Maybe a more interesting question, can you give a couple of examples of your favourite albums/songs/bands?
http://www.animalsyeahyeah.com/mens-c7/unknown-pleasures-cat...
https://www.threadless.com/product/5040/Furr_Division/style,...
It seems to have entered the under-mind, as being "that design with the lines" and few people know the origin any more.
And I was bored or something back then and made a Python program that generates random pictures like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5729268 e.g. http://imgur.com/PtkkESv
"If you haven’t used it in the past year, get rid of it. [...] chances are you probably won’t use it this year, and the unlikeliness of utility will just compound year after year after year."
https://adamcap.com/2011/04/12/my-number-1-spring-cleaning-t...
I have a similar shirt and had no idea what the design was. I know Joy Division, I was familiar with songs on the album, but had never actually seen the cover. My postman, a man in his mid-50s called me out one day, asking me if I was a Joy Division fan. I said yes and asked why he would ask that and he just pointed to my shirt. I assume he thinks i'm a tragic hipster now...
> "Successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered, CP 1919, are here superimposed vertically. The pulses occur every 1.337 seconds."
As far as appearance goes, a similar-looking technique for shading relief maps was invented by Kitiro Tanaka in the 1930s:
http://www.mountaincartography.org/mt_hood/pdfs/kennelly2.pd...
Original paper by Tanaka https://www.jstor.org/stable/1785198
Original hardware (1972) w/ good example of the effect (2nd image down): http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/ruttetra/r...
Minimalist example of the effect: https://imgur.com/E5tfUuQ
(webgl tool used to make that example): https://airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/ruttetra/
http://nerdyembeddedcomputers.review/hands-on-tensorboard-te...
