British Album Artist Vaughan Oliver Dies Sunday ‘Pixies’ ‘The Breeders’ ‘Dead Can Dance’

LONDON, UK. (THECOUNT) — Vaughan Oliver, the British artist and graphic designer who helped create album covers for musical groups, including the Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses, The Breeders, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance and more, passed away Sunday, according to his friend and editor. He was 62.

Shaughnessy, a graphic designer, writer and publisher who co-edited the 2018 collection “Vaughan Oliver: Archive,” announced on Twitter on Sunday morning that “Vaughan Oliver died peacefully today, with his partner Lee by his side. Great loss of friend and design hero,” reports slicingupeyeballs.

Through his design studios 23 Envelope and v23, and his original partner, photographer Nigel Grierson, Oliver began working for 4AD in the early ’80s after meeting the independent label owner, Ivo Watts-Russell. Oliver worked on album covers for the label through the ’80s and ’90s, lending his surrealist and often dark vision to famous album sleeves including all of the Pixies’ covers — the sleeves of Surfer Rosa and Doolittle being among the artist’s best-known work.

A cause of death was not provided as of Sunday morning.

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