Vaughan Oliver

Graphic Design

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Some music is as much defined by it’s visual language as by the bands and songs themselves – and nothing screams out the post-punk angst of the The Pixies like Vaughan Oliver’s album covers. As part of Envelope 23 and later v23, Vaughan Oliver helped define the manifesto of the seminal music label, 4AD, producing work that reflected both the raw energy of a Pixies riff and the dreamy lyricism of This Mortal Coil. He’s credited as being part of a movement that ripped up the rules of type and print in the mid 90s and influenced a generation of designers.