Stanley Donwood

Stanley Donwood is the pen name for English artist Dan Rickwood. Donwood is known best for working closely with Radiohead creating all of their album art as well as posters. He also worked with Radiohead's front man to create their website and he appeared in many of the bands webcasts. Thomas Yorke and Stanley Donwood met as art students at Exeter university and in 1995 Stanley created his first album art for Radiohead. After graduating from Exeter he moved to Plymouth, England and was a freelance artist for many years. He also runs his own website called slowly downward where various short stories and other writing are published. In 2006 he launched his own record company called Six inch records. Only three records were released from the record company, each selling 300 copies. In 2009 Stanley announced that the record company was going to be closing and that no more artists were going to be signed.