Vaughan Oliver, the visual artist and graphic designer behind the Pixies' eclectic and colorful album covers, as well as those of Bush, Lush, The Mountain Goats and many more rock artists, died at the ...

Album cover designer Vaughan Oliver, who developed a signature abstract style as the 4AD label’s in-house man on top of doing classic work for bands like the Pixies, has died at age 62. No cause of ...

Vaughan Oliver designed album art for the bands that defined a decade, from the Pixies and the Breeders to the Cocteau Twins. The Breeders’ song “Cannonball,” the lead single from the band’s 1993 ...

Rosław Szaybo, the designer behind Judas Priest's logo and classic album artwork, has died at the age of 85. The artist was born in Poland on Aug. 13, 1933 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts ...

“What am I doing in Dubai?” This one one of may unanswerable questions in connection with Aldous Harding’s utterly transfixing new album, Designer. In this case, she asks it herself in the opening and ...

Laura LiPuma Nash, who served as art director or designer for Warner Bros. Records form 1982 to 1997, designed album and single covers for Prince from 1984 to 1988. *The woman responsible for the art ...

“There was no MTV, there was no VHI, there was no Spotify,” says Aubrey Powell. Instead, there was album art. In the 1970s, designers were treated as rock stars–album cover designers, that is. “You ...

With his new single “Diet Coke,” Pusha T leaned into trends both new and old. The old: Pusha is still rapping about selling coke. The new: Cover art from longtime Raf Simons collaborator, fashion ...

Before Virgil Abloh launched Off-White and became creative director of Louis Vuitton men’s, he worked on some of the most iconic album covers of the last decade. In 2011, West hired Abloh to become ...

It tells the story of graphic designer Denise Burt and her album covers. Read about her process, see the art — and hear the music that inspired her. Shortly after Burt moved to Copenhagen in 2000, she ...

Graphic designer and art director Nicholas “NickyChulo” Fulcher has worked with some of the biggest names in music. As part of Atlantic Records, he’s designed covers for GoldLink, Kodak Black, Shy ...

In four decades of buying music, I’ve never paid much attention to who designed the sleeves. Certainly, I’ve appreciated the art on many albums, and of course there have been one-off exceptions — Andy ...