Stanley Donwood remakes his 1997 OK Computer poster in colour

Stanley Donwood has remade his 1997 OK Computer poster as “Several Words”, a two-colour screenprint in bright green and orange, which his shop, Slowly Downward Manufactory, listed on 6 October. This is a remake of a remake of a poster I made in 1997, to advertise OK Computer.¹

The first remake, he says, was for the 2017 edition marking twenty years of OK Computer, and another celebrated thirty years of the Big Issue, which he describes as the UK magazine set up to help homeless people. All of those were black and white, and all were pasted up on abandoned buildings around London.

The new edition is 99 copies at £123, each signed and numbered by Donwood and blind-stamped with the shop's seal. It measures 600 by 450 mm. Donwood signs off the listing by apologising, not very seriously, to anyone who finds the image unpleasant. What? You don't like it? You think it's horrible and disturbing? Oh no! What have I done? Sorry!¹