Vaughan oliver biography
Vaughn Oliver
For the British graphic designer, see Vaughan Oliver.
Musical artist
Vaughn Richard Oliver is a Canadian record producer, sound designer, disc jockey (DJ), and audio engineer. He is one half of the musical duo Oliver with fellow disc jockey Oliver Goldstein.
Career
Vaughn Richard Oliver (also known as U-Tern), originally from Canada, was a hip-hop and scratch DJ in the 1990s. Vaughn Oliver, upon moving to Vancouver, started DJing in clubs and radio shows, while Goldstein played in bands and made beats in the studio. While living separately by distance, Vaughn and Oliver Goldstein communicated by Skype and produced music by sending each other parts via the internet.
Vaughn launched his duo's debut studio album, which titled Full Circle, which featured collaborations with Chromeo, MNDR, Sam Sparro, De La Soul and Yelle, was released via Interscope Records on August 25, 2017, alongside singles titled "Heart Attack" featuring De La Soul, "Electrify" and "Chemicals". The song "Electrify" has received over 1.8 million streams on Spotify and was included in the official soundtrack of EA Sports' FIFA 17.
In the years before 2014, Vaughn released the extended plays titled Dirty Talk (2012), Mechanical (2013) and Light Years Away (2014). In an interview, Vaughn noted his dream collaborations to be Prince, Quincy Jones and Daft Punk.
A remix EP of Mechanical was released, featuring remixes from Tchami, Dillon Francis, Values and Nom De Strip. Their song "MYB" was featured on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1show. Earlier in 2017, they featured on the Leon Else song "The City Don't Care", which was released via What Are We Doing/Interscope Records.
On October 23, 2019, Vaughn announced on their official Twitter account that no plans were set for any future album
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Vaughan Oliver
British graphic designer (1957–2019)
For the American DJ and music producer, see Vaughn Oliver.
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. 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.
A book collecting his work, Vaughan Oliver: Archive, was published in 2018.
Career
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. 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. 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)
Respect Due: Vaughan Oliver - Graphic Designer (1957-2019)
The Self-confessed ‘working class lad from a dull town’ created some of the most revered and iconic sleeves in modern pop history.
Vaughan Oliver, the celebrated graphic designer has recently died aged 62. The Self-confessed ‘working class lad from a dull town’ created some of the most revered and iconic sleeve designs in modern pop history.
Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer known for his record covers for Pixies, Cocteau Twins and more, has died aged 62.
Adrian Shaughnessy, a graphic designer who had worked with Oliver, announced the news on Instagram, saying Oliver had died with his partner Lee by his side. No cause of death has been given.
Oliver, born in 1957, grew up in County Durham and studied graphic design at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic. “I was a working class lad from a dull town,” 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.”
He moved to London and in 1982 became the first employee for the record label 4AD. As their in-house designer, he created artwork that helped define them as purveyors of dark and complex alt-rock music; with their clashing fonts and boldly allusive but mysterious symbolism, his sleeves became some of the most revered in modern pop. “I like to elevate the banal through surrealism,” he said in 2014. “Mystery and ambiguity are important weapons in a designer’s arsenal.”
4AD paid tribute on their website, writing: “There was no one else like him. Without Vaughan, 4AD would not be 4AD and it’s no understatement to say that his style also helped to shape graphic design in the late 20th century … he gave both us as a label and our musicians an identity and a voice.”
His most famous 4AD designs include Doolittle and Surfer Rosa by Pixies, Treasure by Coct