Vaughn Oliver

“For inspiration you don’t have to look far, just look closely.”

Vaughn Oliver is a British graphic designer most famous for his work with studios 23 Envelope and V23. Throughout most of the 1980’s and 1990’s, both studios worked closely with record label 4AD and helped produce album covers for bands such as Bush, Dead Can Dance, The Breeders, Lush and Throwing Muses.

At 23 envelope Vaughn Oliver worked graphic design and typography while Nigel Griersen worked photography, creating artwork for nearly all of 4AD releases until 1987. Griersen left the following year and left Oliver working solely under the name V23. Over the years using his imagination and collaborative skills to launch a boom in graphic design through the 80’s and 90’s, leaving a legacy of influence on designers afterwards to discover the possibility of type and print.