British album cover designer Vaughan Oliver dies at 62
Graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, who created album covers for bands including the Pixies, Cocteau Twins and The Breeders, has passed away at age 62. More
Graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, who created album covers for bands including the Pixies, Cocteau Twins and The Breeders, has passed away at age 62. More
SCI-Arc founding director and celebrated Californian modernist Ray Kappe has passed away aged 92, leaving behind "a body of architecture of the highest level". More
RIBA Royal Gold Medal winning architect Edward Cullinan, founder of Cullinan Studio, has passed away aged 88. More
Ingo Maurer – the German designer whose playful, unexpected creations earned him the nickname "poet of light" – passed away yesterday at age 87. More
Charles Jencks, architecture historian, landscape architect and director of Maggie's Cancer Care Centres has passed away at the age of 80. More
Wim Crouwel, the renowned Dutch graphic designer responsible for the identity of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum for more than two decades and founder of Total Design, has died aged 90. More
German industrial designer Luigi Colani, renowned for his curvaceous product and transport designs, has died in his home country at the age of 91. More
Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, the Italian architect who co-founded the radical architecture and design firm Superstudio, has died at the age of 78. More
Argentine-American architect César Pelli, renowned for designing landmark skyscrapers around the world, has died aged 92. More
Philip Freelon, the architect behind major cultural projects across the US, including Washington DC's National Museum of African American History and San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora, has passed away. More
Designers and students have paid tribute to Pierre Keller, the graphic artist and former director of Swiss design school Ecal, who died of liver cancer on 7 July. More
Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman, a founding member of the rebellious postmodern architecture group Chicago Seven, has passed away aged 88. More
Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei has passed away aged 102. More
Pritzker Prize-winning architect and Eero Saarinen protégé Kevin Roche has passed away aged 96, leaving behind a "formidable body of work" including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Ford Foundation headquarters. More
Karl Lagerfeld, the prolific fashion designer who turned around the fortunes of Chanel and Fendi, has died in Paris. More
Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini, famed for designs including the Proust armchair and the Groninger Museum, has passed away aged 87. More
Florence Knoll Bassett, the designer who pioneered the modern open-plan office, has passed away. More
British-Ghanaian fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford has passed away aged 62, after losing a three-year fight with cancer. More
Inspirational business leader Charlotte Wiking, a key figure in Sweden's creative industries, has passed away after a short illness. More
Charles Harrison, the industrial designer who revolutionised the View-Master toy and the plastic trash can, has passed away aged 87. More