Editing Amnesiac (album) (section)

==Artwork and packaging==
The ''Amnesiac'' artwork was created by Yorke and the longtime Radiohead collaborator [[Stanley Donwood]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radioheads-secret-weapon-20060612|title=Radiohead's Secret Weapon|last=Goodman|first=Elizabeth|date=12 June 2006|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=3 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303164717/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radioheads-secret-weapon-20060612|archive-date=3 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> For inspiration, Donwood explored London taking notes, likening the city to the [[labyrinth]] of [[Greek mythology]].<ref name="donwood">{{cite web|last=Pricco|first=Evan|date=3 September 2010|title=A Stanley Donwood Interview|url=http://www.juxtapoz.com/Evan+Pricco/26583-a-stanley-donwood-interview-part-2|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101211211238/http://www.juxtapoz.com/Evan%2BPricco/26583-a-stanley-donwood-interview-part-2|archive-date=11 December 2010|access-date=1 April 2012|website=Juxtapox.com}}</ref> He scanned blank pages of old books and superimposed onto them photos of fireworks and Tokyo tower blocks, copies of [[Giovanni Battista Piranesi|Piranesi]]'s [[Imaginary Prisons|''Imaginary'' ''Prisons'']] drawings, and lyrics and phrases printed by Yorke on a broken typewriter.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Donwood|first=Stanley|title=There Will Be No Quiet|publisher=[[Thames & Hudson]]|year=2019|isbn=9781419737244|pages=79|author-link=Stanley Donwood}}</ref>

The cover depicts a book cover with a weeping [[minotaur]].<ref name="donwood" /> The minotaur, a motif of the ''Amnesiac'' artwork, represents the "maze" Yorke felt he had become lost in during his depression after ''OK Computer;''<ref name="Vozick-Levinson-2021" /> Donwood described it as a "tragic figure".<ref name="Vozick-Levinson-2021">{{Cite magazine|last=Vozick-Levinson|first=Simon|date=2021-11-03|title='Some sort of future, even if it's a nightmare': Thom Yorke on the visual secrets of ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac''|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-pictures/radiohead-kid-a-amnesiac-artwork-1252016/|access-date=2021-11-03|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Figures included in the album booklet include faceless terrorists, self-serving politicians and corporate executives. Yorke said they represented "the abstracted, semi-comical, stupidly dark, false voices that battled us as we tried to work".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Donwood |first1=Stanley |author-link=Stanley Donwood |last2=Yorke |first2=Thom |author-link2=Thom Yorke |date=4 November 2021 |title='We had a fierce anger and suspicion': Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on Radiohead's ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/04/thom-yorke-and-stanley-donwood-kid-a-amnesiac-art |access-date=13 March 2022|website=[[The Guardian]] }}</ref>

For the special edition, Donwood designed a package with a hardback CD case in the style of a mislaid library book. He imagined that "someone made these pages in a book and it went into drawer in a desk and was forgotten about in the attic ... And visually and musically the album is about finding the book and opening the pages."<ref name="donwood" /> The special edition won a [[Grammy Award for Best Recording Package]] at the [[44th Grammy Awards]].<ref name="2001 Grammy Award Winners">{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=&year=2001&genre=All|title=2001 Grammy Award Winners|website=Grammy.com|access-date=1 May 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923073724/http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=&year=2001&genre=All|archive-date=23 September 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>