Thom got this escalator image back in Japan. The idea was to get across the spirit of people living in late 20th century technological society
That's a line from near the end of the song. Thom had it scribbled down in his notebook so we just floated it onto the picture
The background comes from a Spanish advert. Thom tends to snap away with his camera when he's watching TV abroad and then we can scan the pictures into a computer. The plate of food sits behind the tank to show the connection between war and famine.
This is a piece of art from Thom's notebook. He does a lot of sketches on tour and we just float them onto the sleeves. The tank represents a lot of the sickness in the world and the word ‘joy!’ expresses its linear opposite.
That’s a toy rescue helicopter that Thom originally had sitting on a Scrabble board but we had to drop the idea of using the whole board because of the copyright
That's a mate of Thom's who got her head stuck in the freezer. She was trying to cool herself down when it was really hot last summer and the sweat on her head froze and couldn't get her head out. Rather than help her, Thom decided to take a photo
That’s an anti-Prussian poster from the First World War. It's a gorilla with a Prussian hat on and it had a slogan over it which said ‘Destroy This Mad Brute’.
The padlock expresses the idea of love. The two separate bits have been together for so long that they've become one.
That’s an image Thom got from an old physics textbook. He’s a big fan of mathematical formulae. He doesn’t understand them. He just likes the look of them.
That’s a little icon of the world which is based on the revolving world the BBC used before programme came on. I hate it, actually but everyone else likes.
That’s Michael Caine’s cat from The Italian Job which is one of Thom’s favourite films.
We used the cat again because we liked it so much.