Artist and writer Stanley Donwood discusses creating artwork and other material for Radiohead with author Dan Richards.
Stanley Donwood has worked with Radiohead since 1994, producing all the artwork for their albums and promotional materials. His evocative and haunting imagery has created their distinctive visual identity.
To mark the 30 year anniversary of Radiohead’s formation, a new pair of books, Kid A Mnesia and Fear Stalks the Land!, co-written by Donwood and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, explore the process, artwork and lyrics of the albums Kid A and Amnesiac.
Donwood discusses his work with Dan Richards, his co-author (alongside Robert Macfarlane) of Holloway.
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Stanley Donwood is an artist and writer. He has published three collections of stories and has worked with Radiohead since 1994, producing all the artwork for their albums and promotional materials.
Dan Richards is a writer and journalist. His first book, Holloway, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Stanley Donwood, was a Sunday Times Bestseller (Faber, 2013). His fourth book, Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth (Canongate, 2019), explored of the appeal and pull of far-flung shelters in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. He has written about travel and culture for various newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, Economist and Monocle.
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