Some of the best British graphic design work ever done is to be found on the covers of albums released by 4AD, created by Vaughan Oliver, along with Chris Bigg, and the photographers they collaborated with. The Pixies, The Cocteau Twins, The Breeders, Throwing Muses… those were the days. There was always texture in the work – emotion, soul, and a muted sense of unease too, perhaps.

Today Vaughan Oliver is teaching graphic design at Epsom and Kingston, and continues to take on projects now and again, like the fantastic luxury re-release of all the Pixies material that you can see here. Vaughan has also agreed to create an image for the Memories project, and for this we are extremely grateful. He’s busy with The Meteor, the beautiful but heartbreaking story of Ramona Horn’s fight against cancer. We can’t wait to see what he comes up with.

The image above is from the Pixies Minotaur box set Vaughan Oliver has done for Artist In Residence. The project includes contributions from his students at the University of the Creative Arts, Epsom. You can also check out an interview I did with Vaughan last summer, here. One of my favourite interviews.