Factory Records designer Saville picked up a CBE in the New Year's Honours, news eclipsed by the announcement today of the passing of Vaughan Oliver, creator of 4AD's entirely distinctive visual identity.
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They were such nice records to buy! I wasn't into 'brands' or design when I was a kid but I knew that these were records I liked that were also lovely to look at. God knows how many indie kids Oliver and Saville made aware of the beauty of little things.
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I have always assumed that the overlaid images on the Colourbox sleeves were something that VO had worked up himself. In fact, it is a Japanese printer's 'get ready' sheet; scrap paper sent through the press to absorb excess ink before a running a job, picking up different designs as it is reused. That is great, to have come across a found object so complementary to the VO/4AD aesthetic and incorporated it into the designs, in turn influencing later work.
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