Vaughan Oliver

Jim clued me in to the passing of Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer responsible for an unbelievably impressive body of work for a number of artists that were, visually, influential for myself. The Pixies Doolittle, The Breeders Last Splash, Gus Gus's Polydistortion and Lush's Split all quickly come to mind.

I won't claim that as a youth I was aware that each of those albums were all created by the same person (much less an individual at all) but it's impossible to look at a gallery of his work and not feel moved by it.

I've yet to encounter a full, exhaustive, repository of his work but poking around looking for various collections is part of the fun. Check out Oliver's favorite 4AD work, read this interview with him, peruse this Guardian retrospective and then poke around Pinterest and Tumblr for even more treats.