Digi Pack Research

By researching previous album cover artwork and magazine adverts for Radiohead I was able to recognise that all of Radiohead's previous album covers are seemingly random abstract objects or images that are morphed into images that are totally obscure and illustrate Radiohead as a band brilliantly in the sense that they are utterly unique and are creative in ways that many other bands are not, and because of this they have generated a huge following. Through using simple pictures and objects as the album covers and deforming them into something meaningful and clever Radiohead have created some of the most notorious album covers to date, but not always for good reason for example Radiohead's first album 'Pablo honey' was once dubbed one the worst album covers by Radiohead by The Guardian newspaper. Radiohead's album contents and lyrics are always hugely reflected in their album covers for example OK Computer (1997) and Kid A (2000) were about modern alienation and this was shown perfectly through Stanley Donwood's artwork. The songwriting on In Rainbows was more personal than that on Radiohead's other albums, with singer Thom Yorke describing most tracks as his versions of "seduction songs", because of this I tried to create an album cover and contents and a magazine advert that reflected Thom Yorke's idea of sensuality for In Rainbows and yet had similarities of previous album covers that represented Radiohead for the unique band they are.