Stanley Donwood

Stanley Donwood
Stanley Donwood (left) with Thom Yorke in 2011
Born	Dan Rickwood (1968-10-29) 29 October 1968 (age 48) Essex, England
Education	University of Exeter
Known for	Painting Graphic design Drawing
Website	Slowly Downward
Patron(s)	Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Atoms for Peace

Stanley Donwood (born 29 October 1968) is the pen name of English artist and writer Dan Rickwood. He is best known for his work with the English alternative rock band Radiohead, having created all of their album and poster art since 1994, often in collaboration with Radiohead singer Thom Yorke. He also creates artwork for Yorke's solo albums and Yorke's band Atoms for Peace.

After graduating from the University of Exeter, Donwood worked as a freelance artist in Plymouth, England. Aside from his work for Radiohead, Donwood also maintains his own website, Slowly Downward, where short stories and various other writings are published.

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 and he had a better hat and suit on than me. That pissed me off. So 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.