2. Radiohead: In Rainbows
The album cover has various bright colours and a huge explosion in the background
making it easy to spot on the shelves this also makes a huge statement, the words are
misspelt having grammatical errors, this could mean everything is different no two
things are the same.
The back of the cover has words spaced across the whole cover, the words are either
bunched or stretched making them quite hard to read, the colours are extremely bright .
Everything on the album is disorientating the colours are meant to be uplifting, to
present happiness which moulds with the title (in rainbows), but the back of the cover is
dark this could show happiness but with the fear paranoia.
This was the first album by the band that people could buy for however much they felt it
deserved, for the people who pre-ordered it came with stickers and casing to cover the
cd is you burnt or replicated this.
"it's very colourful—I've finally embraced colour! It's a rainbow but it is very toxic, it's
more like the sort of one you'd see in a puddle." Stanley Donwood
3. Radiohead: Kid A
Kid A by Radio head is an iconic album for its artwork, made by Donwood and Tchock is a
mountain with a distortion of the picture towards the bottom and symbolizes It was a reflection
of the war in Kosovo in winter 1999.
Some of the artwork was seen to take a more explicitly political stance
than the album's lyrics
Donwood was affected by a photograph in The Guardian, saying the
war felt like it was happening in his own street
The red swimming pool on the spine of the CD case and on the disc
represents what Donwood termed "a symbol of looming danger and
shattered expectations"
4. Radiohead: hail to the Thief
The album artwork is in the style of a road map, with words and phrases in place of
buildings. Many of the phrases relate to the album itself or reference lyrics.
the artwork is in collaboration with Tchock the artist that the band have collaborated with
before
Donwood cited the landscape of Los Angeles, where most of the album was recorded, as the
primary inspiration on the album cover which is, in fact, a painting called "Pacific Coast".
Donwood said other "maps" in the art refer to the street plans of cities such as
London, Grozny, and Baghdad.
The coloured map shows the corruption of a town the coloured key shows and states key
words associated with the places, e.g.. Orange, corruption, pain, money snatchers.
5. Kylie: ultimate kylie
The idea of the artwork is simplistic, this shows that just a
picture of kylie can be a statement, most people would
recognize who this person is just glancing at the cover.
With minimal writing on the top this shows the impact
that this picture would show.
