Since i had been advised by Jamie in my tutorial notes to look into the artist Stanley Donwood and his practice i thought i would make a start with looking into other practitioners as a way of informing my own project.
My favourite way of doing research is by watching videos or films for example as i just seem to be that kind of learner so i have searched youtube for what it had on Stanley Donwood and i found a fairly good one called - with Donwood : the directors cut.
It didn't quite give out enough quotes or information that i would have liked however there were a couple of very useful bits that he said.
"The artwork evolves from listening to the music so by the time the musics finished and the artworks finished they've intwined together"
"You have to imagine what its gonna look like before you've started (with this sort of stuff, Graphic-y not expressive)" - he said this when he was producing is elaborate hand lettered screen prints.
DIY Mag interview - http://diymag.com/2016/03/22/radiohead-in-rainbows-new-album-lp9-stanley-donwood-interview
"I try to distill a sense of what the music conveys into the texture of the artwork - (i try to see what the music looks like)"
"By being in the studio, or at least very close by, i can hear the evolution of the songs and then attempt to figure out what the visual equivalent would be"
Interview with NOISEY - https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/rdzqxy/stanley-donwood-interview
"'Make the horribly beautiful' is a short hand way of how i think of a lot of the work that ive done in the past. 'trivialising nightmares since 1993' is what i put on my notebook which is probably quite accurate as well"
Juxtapoz - Reddit link interview
The following two quotes i found really interesting in terms of Stanleys personal connection to music.
Responding to whether he gives feedback musically
..."i'm pretty much tone deaf when it comes to that so i don't really know much about music"
- i thought that this was bizarre to read as i have thought this whole time that you need to be a music buff and listen to all sorts of stuff in order to be able to work in relation to the music. So this statement was odd but encouraging.
" I didn't like that sort of music when i first started working with them" ....another wtf quote!?
Overall i fully appreciate Stanley Donwoods practice and i have that affiliation because i equally admire Radiohead, the band with which his work is most infamously known as well as work for Thom Yorke's solo stuff. However i am left slightly underwhelmed with the fact that he hasn't quite given me enough to go on in terms of the topic i am aiming to explore but this is the first time i have researched about him so i may find out more yet.
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