Design Matters Friday with the legendary Vaughan Oliver

Design by Vaughan Oliver, Book of Inspiration for Coco De Mer, 2005

It is Friday again! That means that Design Matters is live at 3 PM ET. My guest today is the legendary Vaughan Oliver.

It is not possible to talk about graphic design of the last 20 years without acknowledging the contribution of Vaughan Oliver. Without a doubt, he is one of the most important graphic designers to come out of England in the last 20 years ad his influence can be seen far and wide.

Oliver set up the design company 23 envelope in the early 1980s and was rechristened v23 in 1988. Working with the label 4AD, Vaughan deeply influenced the discipline of record sleeve design working with musicians such as Ultra Vivid Scene, Frank Black, The Pixies, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Robert Fripp and many, many others.

HIs mythical work with David Sylvian is the closest pop music and art have ever been. Written by Rick Poynor, his 2001 monograph, Visceral Pleasures, explores the different phases of Oliver's career and show that at their most expressive and inventive, Oliver's graphic images embody his intense responses as listener as it plunges the viewer into a world of visceral sensation and pleasure. Oliver and v23 now have their offices in Wandsworth, South England, where Vaughan will be speaking with me today.

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And just so you have it--the rest of the Season Five line-up thus far:

February 15: Jonah Lehrer
February 22: Petrula Vrontikis
February 29: Stefan G. Bucher
March 7: Laurie Rosenwald
March 14: Jeffrey Zeldman
March 28: Abbott Miller
April 11: Robynne Raye
April 18: Michael Hodgson
April 25: Lawrence Weiner

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