Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood open up about creating Radiohead album covers
nme.comThom Yorke has opened up about working with artist Stanley Donwood on creating Radiohead’s album covers.In a new short film for Christies (which was made to coincide with the display of six of Donwood’s ‘Kid A’ era paintings at the auction house), Donwood and Yorke recall their first meeting together at art college and how Donwood later went on to create the cover artwork for ‘The Bends’.Yorke recalled: “He was the guy at art college who could actually paint.
They kicked me out.”Yorke explained that when the band began, he couldn’t deal with the graphic design side of things and so approached Donwood for help.Yorke said: “When we first signed a record deal and first had to deal with the graphic designers and so on, I was like: ‘I can’t cope.
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