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 ...

Here are ten striking record sleeves that caught our eye this year, featuring a racist caricature, an albino snake and a ...

Mihailo Andic: That was actually right before the Lil Boat mixtape came out. This is one of my favorite stories. It was just one day before Valentine's Day and one of my brother's friends came over to ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Storm Thorgerson, the Engish album-cover designer most famous for his iconic work with Pink Floyd, died Thursday after battling cancer, his family announced. He was 69."His ending was peaceful and he ...

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 ...

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 ...