The official ‘In Rainbows’ cover
There’s been a lot of speculation about what would be the official cover for Radiohead’s new album ‘In Rainbows’. A cover that went with the download on October 1st was ditched last minute.
In the meantime, people have been making their own. Although, it was floating around already… we can now officially present you the final cover for ‘In Rainbows’ by Stanley Donwood… so you finally have something you can stick into your iTunes:
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49 Responses to “The official ‘In Rainbows’ cover”
Schattenkirk
November 13th, 2007
awesome thanks for finally hooking it up!
foie-gras style
November 13th, 2007
rainbows. who’d have thought?
Leah
November 13th, 2007
good
mark
November 13th, 2007
greenplastic’s got the packshot if you want something more official like
foie-gras style
November 13th, 2007
wtf? that’s hideous. i thought they got rid of that one, and had been hoping it’d be something awesome like the stanley stuff from this summer
:-\
GoochyLittlePig
November 13th, 2007
sorry ade. i meant that they have the original high res packshot linked.
foie-gras style
November 13th, 2007
it looks like the one i already have, except more detailed
imatumbler
November 13th, 2007
ok yea u have it linked too but it’s 404′d
foie-gras style
November 13th, 2007
i think it’s one of the worst covers of all time!
mike
November 13th, 2007
some of the hodiau direkton stuff was so much better. so were every other album’s cover
carl
November 13th, 2007
well sorry but that’s actualy not the final cover. You’ll see it’s just the cover for the 2nd vinyl, as you know they will also release the album as a 2 vynils edition, and altough the first vinyl’s got the actual cover they had to come up with another one to put something on the face of the second one. Oh and I’m totally shure bout that btw.
Jorge
November 13th, 2007
I don’t like it. It looks like an embryo.
j
November 13th, 2007
Damn that is UGLY. I have a feeling though, that this isn’t the final artwork. I hope not anyway. But if it is, how disappointing!
Khristopher
November 13th, 2007
Beautiful!Beautiful!Beautiful!Beautiful! What an explosion in colors of Rainbows,Rainbows,Rainbows, and Rainbows.
Raymond Swartz
November 13th, 2007
well, screw all you guys, i love it. its violent and colorful and not at all stale (like i think HTTT was). fuck yeah, stanley.
jon
November 13th, 2007
“an embryo”.. hahaha..
it’s ok, can’t beat HTTT though B)
silvina
November 13th, 2007
The image is fine but the letters are too big of a statement, it goes against the music. I remember seeing the image on the scrapbook, but I’m not sure…
rice
November 13th, 2007
hm i kind of like the one i have better
David
November 13th, 2007
mmm… don’t know if i like it or not. i dont like the text - too big…mmm…
subalien
November 13th, 2007
looks like a fetus dropped from a height.
specialist
November 13th, 2007
i love it. it’s something completely
different and freah. I love how the
colours really vibrate. didn’t
stanley say something about toxicity in
the colours. it’s interesting
that some people are put off by it. anyway thumbs up from me.
head on backwards
November 13th, 2007
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November 13th, 2007
You guys are tripping.
I think its one of the most beutiful things I’ve ever seen, and its definatly one of my favorite Stanely paintings.
superfunk
November 13th, 2007
Disappointing, something better for such a great album was needed.
flom k norke
November 13th, 2007
It’s original, which is something I haven’t been able to say about Donwood’s Radiohead work for awhile. I like the typographical experimentation too.
jay
November 13th, 2007
it’s not a ‘painting’ it’s a creation. it’s very ‘pink floyd’..sort of stuff they did in there very early live shows.
i like it. possibly wouldn’t have the repeating text though if it were up to me. doesn’t ruin it for me though.
15steppy
November 13th, 2007
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article nnial 2007 - salvatore iaconesi - del.icio.us poetry, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
Daniel
November 13th, 2007
Hmmm… it’s one of their second worst cover (PH being their worst)… now I want to see the ditched one…
Dellan
November 13th, 2007
… or maybe I misunderstood…
Dellan
November 13th, 2007
Hideous.
Jonathan
November 13th, 2007
you are all crazy. this is probably the best radiohead cover!!!
torn curtain
November 13th, 2007
bleh. it looks like a disco album. stanley, i love your previous work. wtf is this?
monk
November 13th, 2007
Seanholio
November 13th, 2007
this isnt what i expected.
i dont think it suites the album
but whatever
its still beautiful
Bianca
November 13th, 2007
DID SOMEONE NOTICE THE NUMBER TEN IN
LAST “RAD IO HEAD”?
cloudia
November 14th, 2007
In the spirit of the album release, I thought Radiohead would have held a competition where fans could submit their own ideas and pick one for the cover. Other people’s ideas were much cooler than this…looks really unprofessional. I could have made this in paint - very ugly. Does anyone know why they keep spelling things witho_ut s_pace/s and weird c/ haracters? It looks like something my 16 year old friend’s sister used to do in her AOL profile picture to look cool.
Don
November 14th, 2007
i think its his best yet! bravo !
e
November 14th, 2007
Claudia is it the number 10 really or
just the syllabus io and spaces to the
left and right? I like it to be honest.
I don’t see a rainbow though. I see an
explosion. That’s what I see. Or a
bucket full of paint dropped over the
canvas..
Katia
November 15th, 2007
[...] no album artwork ever graced our downloaded zip file but now its nice to have something official. its been quite the experience enjoying this entire album, taking in what is new and combining all [...]
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November 15th, 2007
The picture in background is nice… But the Wway the text is wrote is just ugly. I feel likie in the 60’s with this kind of colors.
Kill Me Sarah
November 16th, 2007
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moocora
November 23rd, 2007
[...] recently, the cover of radiohead’s “in rainbows” was released. unfortunately, no album artwork ever graced our downloaded zip file but now its nice to have something official. [...]
receiptbill » radiohead :: thumbs down
November 29th, 2007
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receiptbill » radiohead :: thumbs down
November 29th, 2007
love the revolution! and still love you-whatever you do-authentic artworkers *
julia bug
December 15th, 2007


Hmm…I like it. I don’t love it, but still, it’s not bad.