Stanley Donwood

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stanley Donwood
Occupation	Graphic Designer
Date Of Birth	Oct 29, 1968(1968-10-29)
Age	56
Birthplace	Essex
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Libra

Stanley Donwood Biography

Stanley Donwood is one of the most popular and richest Graphic Designer who was born on October 29, 1968 in Essex, England, United Kingdom. Artist most well-known for his work in creating album covers for Radiohead. He along with Artist best known for his work creating album covers for the band Radiohead. He and Thom Yorke have collaborated since 1994 and have won a Grammy together for Best Recording Package in 2002. have been working together since 1994 and won an Grammy with Artist best known for his work creating album covers for the band Radiohead. He and Thom Yorke have collaborated since 1994 and have won a Grammy together for Best Recording Package in 2002. for the the Best Recording Package in 2002.

He also worked together with Yorke on album artwork for his other project which was a supergroup of musicians called Atoms for Peace. The group was comprised of He also collaborated with Yorke on album art for the singer’s other project, musical super group Atoms for Peace. The band included Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Joey Waronker who played drums for R.E.M. and Beck. who was from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Joey Waronker who was a drummer for R.E.M. and Beck..

Stanley Donwood and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke met as art students at the University of Exeter. Donwood said his first impressions of Yorke were that he was “Mouthy. Pissed off. Someone I could work with.” Yorke wrote: “I met him first day at art college … I figured I’d either end up really not liking this person at all, or working with him for the rest of my life.” Yorke asked Donwood to produce the cover art for Radiohead’s 1994 single My Iron Lung, beginning a working relationship that has continued for all Radiohead’s art and promotional material, as well as Yorke’s solo albums and work with Atoms For Peace. Yorke is credited alongside Donwood under the monikers “The White Chocolate Farm”, “Dr. Tchock”, “Tchocky” or similar abbreviations.

For Radiohead’s 2000 album Kid A, Donwood produced a series of mountainous landscapes and a series of images centred on mutant bears. Its follow-up, Amnesiac, used a crying minotaur as its avatar. Donwood cites Caspar David Friedrich and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as time spent in war museums and mountain landscapes as influences in its bleak, post-apocalyptic style.

The place where he was raised is Essex, England.

Stanley Donwood Net Worth

Stanley Donwood is one of the richest Graphic Designer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stanley Donwood 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born Dan Rockwood, but employs Stanely Donwood as his pen name. He was a student in The University of Exeter which is where he first met Yorke who was an art student.

He’s also a prolific writer, and his website Slowly Downward is home to diverse pieces of writing as well as his blog. He’s also a prolific artist outside of his collaborations with Radiohead and frequently hosts shows and exhibitions for his ongoing projects.

Stanley Donwood (born 29 October 1968) is the pen name of English artist and writer Dan Rickwood. Since 1994, he has created all the artwork for the rock band Radiohead, with singer Thom Yorke. He also creates artwork for Yorke’s solo albums and Yorke’s band Atoms for Peace, and book covers for nature writer Robert Macfarlane.

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Who is Stanley Donwood Dating?

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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 the 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.”

Facts & Trivia

Stanley Ranked on the list of most popular Graphic Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Stanley Donwood celebrates birthday on October 29 of every year.

In May 2015, Donwood opened an exhibition of Radiohead artwork, The Panic Office, in Sydney, Australia. Yorke composed an original soundtrack for the exhibition.

Why did Stanley Donwood change his name?

Rickwood uses the pen name Stanley Donwood; he said: “ I like to separate the person I am at home — washing up, vacuuming, picking up the kids from school and so on — from whoever Stanley Donwood is.”

What is Stanley Donwood famous for?

Stanley Donwood is the pen name of English artist and writer Dan Rickwood. Donwood is known for his close association with the British band Radiohead, having created all of their album and poster art since 1994. After graduating from the University of Exeter, Donwood worked as a freelance artist in Plymouth, England.

What kind of art does Stanley Donwood do?

Donwood applied acrylic on canvas paintings , creating maps of war torn cities like Grozny and Kabul out of brightly coloured blocks. Those cover arts usually employed politically charged words or phrases. In addition to designing cover art, Donwood also began to create and sell large screenprints from 2006 onwards.

How old is Stanley Donwood?

53 years (October 29, 1968)

What medium does Stanley Donwood use?

Forms