{"id":111932,"date":"2022-05-25T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=111932"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:34:49","slug":"the-fax-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=111932","title":{"rendered":"The Fax Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Creative collaboration is a wonderful thing, a flow of ideas, when two or more minds come together the end result more often than not, feels like it has added fascination than a singular view. We see this often in bands when several members create music together or writing partners in a book or film script. But what happens if you and your collaborator are miles away even countries apart? If we told you a fax machine may well play a part you may be a little perplexed. Worry not we will fill you in here in The fax Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image left, Thom Yorke I froze Up<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what do the 90’s, Radiohead’s Thom York alongside Artist Stanley Donwood have in common? A fax machine. This is where a great creative collaboration started and grew over 30 odd years, even though the fax machine is no longer an integral part of this particular journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thom York and Stanley Donwood were art students together at Exeter University in the 19080s. Each with their own vision almost as a curative program, to almost exercise ideas and thoughts some unhappy, frightening but also much humour out of both respective heads. In a back and forth artworks and ideas went as one travelled in the world of pop, a fax machine was their choice of communication to explore each other’s creative worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Furnace Thom Yorke<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One would draw and fax to the other and this process went on and it was from the almost ‘love letters’ back and forth that much work for the album covers for Radiohead was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n