Vaughan Oliver
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Heavy rotation
Issue 104, Spring 2023
From 1977-92, the Album Cover Albums presented a broad spectrum of record sleeve art, unintentionally raising questions about the way graphic design for popular culture is experienced, interpreted and preserved. By Christopher Wilson [EXTRACT]
Waste not
Issue 98, Spring 2019
For many years Vaughan Oliver was the in-house designer for the 4AD record label, creating…
Pack shots
Issue 76, Summer 2010
Form swamping content? Or a welcome new wave of graphical expression?
Vaughan Oliver’s Minotaur
Issue 76, Summer 2010
This Pixies box set was a chance to make brand new artwork with a student team from UCA
Reinterpreting the classics
Issue 21, Summer 1996
For a handful of classical record companies, expressive design is a commercial priority.
Books in freefall
Issue 10, Autumn 1993
Shinro Ohtake is a master of the artist’s book. His latest is a collaboration with Vaughan Oliver
23 Envelope: ambience and inner space
Issue 37, Autumn 2000
Operating undercover, using the enigmatic title of 23 Envelope, Nigel Grierson and his partner Vaughan Oliver created designs of exceptional power. Their work inspired the next generation of image-makers. By Rick Poynor
Tokyo Salamander
Issue 10, Autumn 1993
Vaughan Oliver’s collaboration with Shinro Ohtake is an oblique diary of dreams
Recent blog posts about Vaughan Oliver
Offset 2013: day two
12 April 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Reviews, Visual culture
Gag-happy Vaughan Oliver recalls ‘holding a comma on the end of my scalpel.’ Pam Bowman continues her coverage of the Dublin conference.
Saturday began with Irish Children’s Laureate Niamh Sharkey, writes Pam Bowman, in the second of…