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Stanley Donwood is the pen name of English writer and artist Dan Rickwood[1], who has gained fame for his work on the album and poster art for Radiohead on every release since their My Iron Lung EP (1994). Since 1996, he has also collaborated with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and others on the band's websites. Despite his popularity, Donwood's enigma-like status is such that his existence as separate from Thom Yorke has at times been doubted. He has, however, appeared in the occasional band webcast and the 2001 Grammy Award ceremony. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ...
Radiohead are an English rock band from Oxfordshire. ...
My Iron Lung is also a song, the title track of an EP and a track on their album The Bends My Iron Lung is an EP by the band Radiohead, released in 1994 and including the single of the same name. ...
Extended play (EP) is the name typically given to vinyl records or CDs which contain more than one single, but are too short to qualify as albums. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Thomas Edward Yorke (born October 7, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is best known as the lead singer of the English alternative rock band Radiohead. ...
This article is about the year 2001. ...
Biography
Donwood and Yorke met at the University of Exeter as art students. After graduating, Donwood worked as a freelance artist in Plymouth, England, until asked by Yorke to produce the cover art for The Bends, beginning a long collaborative working relationship between the pair for produce Radiohead art and promotions. Yorke is usually credited alongside Donwood under the moniker "The White Chocolate Farm," or more recently "Dr. Tchock", "Tchocky" or similar abbreviations. The University of Exeter is the principal university in the city of Exeter, England. ...
Smeatons tower on the Plymouth Hoe Plymouth is a city in the Westcountry of England, situated at the mouths of the rivers Plym and Tamar in the traditional county of Devon. ...
The Bends, released in 1995, is the second full length album by English rock band Radiohead. ...
For his Kid A related work, Donwood produced a series of fiery, mountainous landscapes and a series of images centered around a minotaur. Donwood cites Caspar David Friedrich and Hieronymous Bosch, as well as time spent in war museums and mountain landscapes[2], as influences in its bleak, post-apocalyptic style. Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English band Radiohead. ...
Bull mask at the Greek pavilion at Expo 88 In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (Greek: ΜινόταυÏος, Minótauros) was a creature that was part man and part bull. ...
Self-portrait in chalk, 1810 by fellow artist Georg Friedrich Kersting, 1812 Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be one of the finest representatives of the movement. ...
Hieronymus Bosch; alleged portrait (around 1560) Hieronymus Bosch, also Jeroen Bosch, ( 1450 – August, 1516) was a prolific Dutch painter of the 15th and 16th century. ...
In 2002, he and Yorke/Tchocky won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package for the Special Edition of Amnesiac. Aside from his work for Radiohead, Donwood also maintains his own website, Slowly Downward, where he publishes his own short stories and various other writings, all of which have a unique and often odd style. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music...
The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package has been presented since 1974. ...
Amnesiac is the fifth studio album by English band Radiohead, released on June 4, 2001 in the United Kingdom and on June 5 in the United States and Canada, debuting at #1 on the UK charts and #2 on the Billboard Top 200. ...
Nine acrylic on canvas paintings, clearly inspired by Paula Scher's map paintings, provided the basis for 2003's Hail to the Thief's look, creating maps of war torn cities like Kabul and Grozny out of brightly colored blocks with politically charged words or phrases. Paula Scher (born 1948 in Washington D.C.) is an American graphic designer and artist. ...
Hail to the Thief, or The Gloaming as it is subtitled, is the sixth studio album by English rock band Radiohead, released on June 9, 2003 in the United Kingdom and June 10 in the United States and Canada. ...
Kabul, Kâbl (locally: کابل), is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population of approximately 3 million people. ...
Grozny or Groznyy (Russian: ) is the capital of the Chechen Republic in Russia. ...
In 2006, Donwood began creating and selling large screenprints. In an interview with antiMusic.com, he explained it as an effort to reconnect with the process of print making and as a means to share his art in a larger format than the small, low quality prints in album cover and insert art, "It's a way of getting pictures out in they way they should be seen; not as 4-colour litho on cheap paper, but as real pieces of artwork that have a much greater visual impact."[3]
Donwood's most recent exhibition, "London Views", is a series of fourteen woodcut-style prints of various London landmarks being destroyed by fire and flood. The prints are being exhibited in Lazarides Gallery, in Soho, London. The prints are also used as the cover and insert art for Thom Yorke's first solo album, The Eraser. This article is about the district of Greater London. ...
The Eraser is a solo album by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, released in July 2006 by XL Recordings. ...
Works
Bibliography - Small Thoughts (1998), printed on eleven circular cards, housed in a tin
- Slowly Downward (2001)
- Catacombs of Terror! (2002)
- Tachistoscope (2003)
- My Giro (2005), unprinted eight chapter story
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
This article is about the year 2001. ...
For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Cover art
Albums The Bends, released in 1995, is the second full length album by English rock band Radiohead. ...
OK Computer is the third album by the British band Radiohead, first released in June 1997 to immense acclaim and eventually, worldwide commercial success. ...
Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English band Radiohead. ...
Amnesiac is the fifth studio album by English band Radiohead, released on June 4, 2001 in the United Kingdom and on June 5 in the United States and Canada, debuting at #1 on the UK charts and #2 on the Billboard Top 200. ...
I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings is a 2001 live mini album by English rock band Radiohead, consisting of live performances of eight songs recorded on a then-recent tour of Europe and North America: seven from their albums Kid A and Amnesiac, and one never released on a studio...
Bodysong is Jonny Greenwoods first solo LP Tracklisting: 1. ...
Hail to the Thief, or The Gloaming as it is subtitled, is the sixth studio album by English rock band Radiohead, released on June 9, 2003 in the United Kingdom and June 10 in the United States and Canada. ...
The Eraser is a solo album by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, released in July 2006 by XL Recordings. ...
Extended play (EP) is the name typically given to vinyl records or CDs which contain more than one single, but are too short to qualify as albums. ...
My Iron Lung is also a song, the title track of an EP and a track on their album The Bends My Iron Lung is an EP by the band Radiohead, released in 1994 and including the single of the same name. ...
Live Au Forum contains four live songs from the band, Radiohead. ...
Live à lAstoria is a Radiohead promotional cd featuring three live songs from the band recorded at The Astoria. ...
The Just for College EP is a Radiohead promotional release containing three B-sides from singles from The Bends and one live song. ...
The Bends Pinkpop is a live ep from the band Radiohead. ...
No Surprises/Running From Demons is an EP by Radiohead. ...
Airbag/How Am I Driving? is an EP by Radiohead, released in 1998 specifically to the North American market, but is currently out of print. ...
The Amnesiac College EP is a ep from the rock band, Radiohead. ...
COM LAG (2plus2isfive) is an EP by British rock band Radiohead, first released in Japan and Australia in March 2004, followed with a April 2004 release in Canada. ...
Singles My Iron Lung is also a song, the title track of an EP and a track on their album The Bends My Iron Lung is an EP by the band Radiohead, released in 1994 and including the single of the same name. ...
High and Dry is the second single to be taken from the Radiohead album The Bends, and appeared as a double A-side with the album opener Planet Telex. It was released in the UK on 5 March 1995 and peaked at number 17 in the UK singles chart. ...
Planet Telex is a song by the British rock band Radiohead from their 1995 album The Bends. ...
Fake Plastic Trees is a song by Radiohead, from their second album The Bends. ...
JUST JUST is a rock band based out of Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. ...
Street Spirit (Fade Out) (commonly called Street Spirit) is a single by Radiohead, released in 1996, from their 1995 album The Bends. ...
The Bends, released in 1995, is the second full length album by English rock band Radiohead. ...
Paranoid Android is a song by Radiohead, from their third album, OK Computer. ...
Karma Police was the second single from Radioheads acclaimed 1997 album OK Computer, and is perhaps Radioheads best known hit worldwide, apart from Creep. ...
The song No Surprises by Radiohead is the third single from the album OK Computer. ...
Pyramid Song is a song by the British band Radiohead. ...
Knives Out is a song written and performed by British musical group Radiohead. ...
There there is a song by Radiohead and was released as the first single from their sixth album Hail to the Thief in 2003 (see 2003 in music). ...
Go to Sleep is a song by Radiohead and was released as the second single from their sixth album Hail to the Thief in 2003 (see 2003 in music). ...
2 + 2 = 5 is a song by Radiohead, released as the last single from their sixth album Hail to the Thief in 2003 (see 2003 in British music). ...
DVDs DVD cover. ...
7 Television Commercials is the only official collection of music videos currently available from Radiohead. ...
Live at the Astoria 1995 was a PAL-only VHS release of Radioheads London show on 27 May 1994, notable mainly for its collection of songs that would not appear until the release of The Bends, ten months later. ...
The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time DVD cover, based on artwork from Hail to the Thief by Tchock and Stanley Donwood. ...
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Promotions The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time DVD cover, based on artwork from Hail to the Thief by Tchock and Stanley Donwood. ...
The Trade Justice Movement, or TJM, is a British coalition of more than 70 organisations which campaign for Trade Justice in government policy, in particular, the abolition of the European Unions agricultural export subsidies, and the right of national governments to follow protectionist trade policy in the pursuit of...
Notes - ^ http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002689108
- ^ http://www.climbingupthewalls.com/features/stanleyinterview2000.htm
- ^ http://www.antimusic.com/features/05/radiohead/index.shtml
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