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Vaughan Oliver was born on 12 September, 1957 in County Durham, United Kingdom, is a British graphic designer (1957–2019). Discover Vaughan Oliver's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 12 September, 1957
Birthday 12 September
Birthplace County Durham, United Kingdom
Date of death 29 December, 2019
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Nationality United Kingdom

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1957

Vaughan Oliver (12 September 1957 – 29 December 2019) was a British graphic designer based in Epsom, Surrey.

Oliver was best known for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23.

Oliver was born in Sedgefield, County Durham on 12 September 1957.

He developed an interest in graphic design through his love of music, in particular the work of Roger Dean.

1979

After graduating in 1979, Oliver went to London hoping to find a designing job with a large design group.

He soon found out that he was not made for working with big corporations or designing for the commercial world.

He subsequently met the owner of the record label 4AD, Ivo Watts Russell.

This encounter led to a thirty-year partnership between Vaughan Oliver and 4AD.

23 Envelope consisted of Oliver (graphic design and typography) and Nigel Grierson (photography).

1980

Oliver's album art helped to shape the aesthetic of 4AD, a cult indie record label that was prominent from the 1980s well into the 1990s.

The mysterious qualities in his album art were inspired by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, whom Oliver admired during his college years.

Oliver created album artwork for a number of 4AD bands, including Pixies, Cocteau Twins, The Breeders and This Mortal Coil.

Although Oliver worked exclusively with 4AD, he would occasionally work with non-music related clients.

He had an influence on the post pop-punk music industry, inspiring hundreds of artists to be different, mysterious and explorative.

During the early years of 4AD, Oliver was credited with giving the bands and the label an identity through his visual language, despite their adherence to different genres.

1982

Both studios maintained a close relationship with record label 4AD between 1982 and 1998 and gave distinct visual identities for the 4AD releases by many bands, including Mojave 3, Lush, Cocteau Twins, The Breeders, This Mortal Coil, Pale Saints, Pixies, and Throwing Muses.

Oliver also designed record sleeves for such artists as David Sylvian, The Golden Palominos, and Bush.

1987

Together, they created the artwork for almost all 4AD releases until 1987.

Oliver produced the artwork for the Pixies' entire discography during his lifetime, including the albums Come On Pilgrim (1987), Surfer Rosa (1988), Doolittle (1989), Bossanova (1990), Trompe Le Monde (1991), Indie Cindy (2014), Head Carrier (2016) and Beneath the Eyrie (2019), as well as numerous singles and EPs.

1988

Grierson left 23 Envelope in 1988.

At that time, Oliver continued to work for 4AD under the studio name v23, collaborating with Simon Larbalestier, Marc Atkins and others.

1990

In February 1990, Oliver was asked to bring together the work he had done so far for 4AD to be shown for the first time in an art gallery, the Espace Graslin in Nantes, France.

The exhibition gathered so much media exposure throughout Europe that it subsequently moved to the Parc de la Villette in Paris.

An illustrated catalogue titled Exhibition/Exposition was published to coincide with both Nantes and Paris exhibitions.

1992

He designed the sleeve of their 1992 FA Cup single and had been approached by the club to redesign their crest.

1994

In 1994, many of those who had collaborated with Oliver over the previous decade contributed to an illustrated catalogue for the retrospective exhibition of his work held at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, This Rimy River.

Recollections of the v23 design experience were provided by individuals such as design writer Rick Poynor, and art critic Ian McKay who frames Oliver's work in a fine art context.

2000

In 2000 a major monograph Vaughan Oliver: Visceral Pleasures by Rick Poyner was published by Booth-Clibborn Editions.

2005

In 2005, to mark 25 years of 4AD records, Oliver produced a limited-edition publication of his poster designs, with a second-edition published to coincide with a solo exhibition of his posters staged at the Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University, London, UK) in 2007.

2009

In 2009, Oliver designed the Pixies' Minotaur, a 26-pound box set consisting of the band's first five albums, a 96-page fine art book and a 52-page photo book.

Oliver stated that, with each Pixies release, he had looked to achieve "a sense of continuity" within the catalog but also employ a "fresh approach", and that his ethos "was always about building individual identities for bands."

Among Oliver's other interests was football.

Oliver was a qualified FA coach, and he was a keen supporter of Sunderland.

2011

In 2011, Oliver was awarded an honorary Master of Arts from the University for the Creative Arts, where he taught on the Epsom campus as a visiting professor.

Two books of work were published.

2014

He said in 2014 "There was no real culture, my parents were not really interested in anything unusual – everything I was getting was through record sleeves. It was a democratic way of discovering art."

It was not until he studied graphic design at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic that he took the subject seriously.

Through his studies his interests broadened to include inspiration from the work of Salvador Dalí, Surrealism and Pop artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.

2018

A book collecting his work, Vaughan Oliver: Archive, was published in 2018.

2019

Oliver died on 29 December 2019 at the age of 62.