Vaughan Oliver

- His work demands that the viewer meets it halfway, and in this regard it is the antithesis of most graphic design and nearly all advertising. He said: “I try to make images where you don’t always get ‘the message’ straight away. But these things leave a hook in you. Leaving some space for interpretation is important.”
- his use of typography, often layering different fonts and employing linear divisions across the album covers, was as striking as his ambient imagery and would prove influential.
- Although Oliver's genre was not Jazz and more punk, I am inspired by his layering and the ambiguity within his work. His iconic cover for Pixies is a perfect mix of structure and chaos with the layered textures and grid. This imagery could easily be screenprinted and would produce some nice layered results.