The Designs: Words, Wave Lines and a Gig Poster
Our shop is small on purpose. Most Joy Division designs keep to black and white, plain lettering and very little else. Here is what they show.
Which designs are about words?
- Love Will Tear Us Apart: JOY DIVISION set above LOVE WILL TEAR US APART in two centred lines of classical serif capitals. The title of our June 1980 single.
- Heart and Soul: four lines in the same serif capitals: HEART AND SOUL, TWENTY FOUR HOURS, THE ETERNAL, DECADES.
- Joy Division Eternal: our name and the word ETERNAL in big, rounded block capitals, one line in red, one in green, one in blue.
Which designs are about pictures?
- The wave lines: rows of black lines that rise into sharp peaks in the middle, edge to edge, with a small 40 and FACT 10 1979 2019 in the corner.
- The gig poster: Unknown Pleasures with Joy Division on Tour! in hand-drawn letters, a field of wave lines below, and the date 21 Januar, Montag, 20 Uhr (German for 21 January, Monday, 8 pm).
- The portrait: a very pale, soft drawing of a face.
Why so plain?
Our music is dark, spare and atmospheric, and we want the merch to feel the same: no ornament, nothing loud, the words and lines doing the work.
What do the designs come on?
Each design comes on a unisex tee, a long sleeve, a crewneck and a hoodie, plus a kids' tee and a youth crewneck and hoodie. Every product page has its own size chart.