Editing OK Computer (section)

==Artwork==
[[File:OK Computer booklet page.png|thumb|A page of the ''OK Computer'' booklet with logos, white scribbles and text in [[Esperanto]] and English. Yorke said the motif of two stick figures shaking hands symbolised exploitation.<ref name="SELECT"/>]]
The ''OK Computer'' artwork is a collage of images and text created by Yorke (credited as the White Chocolate Farm) and [[Stanley Donwood]].<ref>{{citation
 | first = Sascha
 | last = Krüger
 | title = Exit Music
 | language = de
 | date = July 2008
 | magazine = Visions}}</ref> Yorke commissioned Donwood to work on a visual diary alongside the recording sessions. He said he did not feel confident in his music until he saw a visual representation to accompany it.<ref name="LYNSKEYq" /> According to Donwood, the blue-and-white palette was the result of "trying to make something the colour of bleached bone".<ref name="DOMBAL">{{cite web
 | first = Ryan
 | last = Dombal
 | title = Take Cover: Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood
 | url = https://pitchfork.com/news/40032-take-cover-radiohead-artist-stanley-donwood/
 | date = 15 September 2010 | magazine = [[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110830190855/http://pitchfork.com/news/40032-take-cover-radiohead-artist-stanley-donwood/
 | archive-date = 30 August 2011
| url-status = live
}}</ref>{{sfn|Griffiths|2004|p=79}}

The image of two stick figures shaking hands appears in the liner notes and on the disc label in CD and LP releases. Yorke said the image symbolised exploitation: "Someone's being sold something they don't really want, and someone's being friendly because they're trying to sell something. That's what it means to me."<ref name="SELECT" /> The image was later used on the cover for ''[[Radiohead: The Best Of]]'' (2008).<ref name="SELECT" /> Explaining the artwork's themes, Yorke said, "It's quite sad, and quite funny as well. All the artwork and so on&nbsp;... It was all the things that I hadn't said in the songs."<ref name="SELECT" />

Motifs in the artwork include motorways, aeroplanes, families, corporate logos and cityscapes.{{sfn|Footman|2007|pp=127–130}} The photograph of a motorway on the cover was likely taken in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], where Radiohead performed in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Alex |date=2017-05-09 |title=Location of Radiohead's ''OK Computer'' artwork has been discovered |url=https://consequence.net/2017/05/location-of-radioheads-ok-computer-has-been-discovered/ |access-date=2024-06-29 |website=[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence]] |language=en-US}}</ref> The words "Lost Child" feature prominently, and the booklet artwork contains phrases in the [[constructed language]] [[Esperanto]] and health-related instructions in both English and Greek. The ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' critic [[David Cavanagh]] said the use of [[non sequitur (literary device)|non-sequiturs]] created an effect "akin to being lifestyle-coached by a lunatic".<ref name="CAVANAGH">{{citation
 | first = David
 | last = Cavanagh
 | author-link = David Cavanagh
 | title = Communication Breakdown
 | date = February 2007
 | magazine = [[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]}}</ref> White scribbles, Donwood's method of correcting mistakes rather than using the computer function [[undo]],<ref name="DOMBAL" /> are present everywhere in the collages.{{sfn|Griffiths|2004|p=81}}

The [[liner notes]] contain the full lyrics, rendered with atypical syntax, alternate spelling<ref name="KUIPERS">{{citation
 | first = Dean
 | last = Kuipers
 | title = Fridge Buzz Now
 | date = March 1998
 | magazine = [[Ray Gun (magazine)|Ray Gun]]}}</ref> and small annotations.<ref group="nb">For example, the line "in a deep deep sleep of the innocent" from "Airbag" is rendered as ">in a deep deep sssleep of tHe inno$ent/<s>completely terrified</s>". See [[#CITEREFFootman2007|Footman 2007]], p. 45</ref> The lyrics are also arranged and spaced in shapes that resemble hidden images.<ref>{{citation
 |first       = Mark
 |last        = Arminio
 |title       = Between the Liner Notes: 6 Things You Can Learn By Obsessing Over Album Artwork
 |url         = http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/27053
 |date        = 26 June 2009
|magazine    = [[Mental floss]]
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20121006181755/http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/27053
 |archive-date = 6 October 2012
|url-status     = dead
}}</ref> In keeping with Radiohead's emerging [[anti-corporate activism|anti-corporate]] stance, the production credits contain the ironic copyright notice "Lyrics reproduced by kind permission even though we wrote them."<ref name="ODELL">{{citation
 | first = Michael
 | last = Odell
 | title = Inside the Mind of Radiohead's Mad Genius!
 | date = September 2003
 | magazine = [[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]}}</ref>