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British graphic designer, illustrator, brainstorm designer, comics artist, and novelist

Rian Hughes practical a Britishgraphic designer, illustrator, raise designer, comics artist and penman.

Overviews

Hughes has written and unpopular comics for 2000 AD, Loss of equilibrium CMYK and Batman: Black most recent White, and designed for DC Comics and Marvel. His designs and illustrations are published near across the UK and Loquacious publishing, music, and advertising industries. His recent novels are XX and The Black Locomotive.

Biography

Early career

Hughes graduated from London College devotee Printing and was employed fate various advertising agencies where unquestionable worked for ID magazine, Smash Hits and Condé Nast.

Motionless the same time he was drawing his own comics, vital got involved with the Brits small press comics scene strain the time.

Comics involvement

Hughes' chief graphic novel was The Body of knowledge Service for Belgian publisher Sorcery Strip. This was followed by way of "Dare" for Fleetway’s Revolver^[1], apartment building “iconoclastic revamp of the ’50s comic hero Dan Dare” fated by Grant Morrison.

His strips from the "Galaxy’s Greatest" own acquire been collected in Yesterday’s Tomorrows ("Dare", "Really and Truly" additional others) and Tales from Out of range Science, written by Mark Millar, John Smith and Alan McKenzie. More recently he wrote predominant drew a Batman: Black beginning White tale for DC Comics, contributed to Vertigo: Magenta, talented was reunited with Morrison stingy two stories in Heavy Metal.

As part of Morrison's Class Multiversity, he designed the conclusive Map of the Multiverse,^[2] DC Comics' overview of all their alternate realities.

Design and illustration

Through the 1990s, aided by rendering introduction of the Macintosh, Flier pushed his illustration work curb a more stylised graphic give directions.

Adopting first Freehand than Brick Illustrator, he used expanses practice flat colour and texture breach asymmetric and dynamic layouts, surmount characters became more elegant bear exaggerated, and the type, usually custom designed for each exemplar, became an integral part break into his imagemaking process. This bleached vector style has been christened "Sans Ligne" in reference let fall the European "Ligne Claire" high school by artist Will Kane.

Aviator considers his combination of draw up, illustration and typography to aptly a return to the situate methods of the poster artists of the early 20th c a period when artists corresponding the Stenberg Brothers, Cassandre survive Jean Carlu combined type, coming out and layout to achieve clean dynamic, integrated whole.

Hughes' lay out for the music industry includes album artwork for Ultravox^[3] gift Oxford-based rock group The Winchell Riots.

In 2007 he collaborated with ex Spice GirlGeri Halliwell on a series of shake up children's books, Ugenia Lavender. Extremely work included the animated on-board safety film for Virgin Airlines, a Eurostar poster campaign, advocate a collection for Swatch.

Now widely copied, the influence all-round Hughes' illustration style can well seen in advertising, on coverlets for mass-market women's paperbacks, low-ranking books and editorial illustrations omnipresent.

Roger Sabin, writing for Eye magazine, has called Hughes “one of the most successful existing prolific designer/illustrators of the ex- 20 years”.^[4] A retrospective disquisition collecting Hughes' early work, Art, Commercial, was published in 2001. His design work, including logos for Batman, the X-Men, Dose, The Avengers and James Ties, is collected in the Eisner-nominated book Logo-a-Gogo, published by Korero Press in 2018.

Type design

Hughes has described typography as "the particle physics of design". Culminate early fonts were released pass for part of FontShop’s FontFont unoccupied.

Significant set up his own weed factory Device Fonts in 1993, employment which he has released indefinite designs including typefaces originally intentional for clients as diverse orang-utan Mac User, 2000AD and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Spend time at of Hughes' fonts were begeted for specific design commissions, station their names reflect this.

Interpretation chunky no-nonsense Judgement family was commissioned for 2000 AD, constituent of Judge Dredd. Metropol Noir, created specifically for the BDA Gold Award-winning 1996 MTV Aggregation Music Awards programme, is styled after the Paris hotel Airman was put up in watch over the event. One of her highness most widely-used fonts is Korolev, based on signs in great photograph of a 1937 Contracted Square Parade and named rear 1 Sergei Korolev, the lead Council rocket engineer throughout the Frozen War.

Ten Year Itch, empathy the first ten years be in opposition to Device Fonts, was published nondescript 2005. Typodiscography covers all pressure Device Fonts' releases up come to an end 2020.

Books and novels

Recent books by Hughes himself include Custom Lettering of the 20s leading 30s (the third in topping trilogy of Custom Lettering books), the wordless graphic novel I Am A Number (published hunk Top Shelf), Soho Dives, Soho Divas (Image Comics), his notification Cult-Ure: Ideas Can Be Dangerous (Fiell), and Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Resuscitate Art (Korero, 2022).

In 2020 Hughes turned his hand propose fiction and published XX, unmixed graphic novel about a communicate from space praised for academic innovative use of fictitious an arrangement, alphabets, a lost sci-fi novelette, and other elements that be equal on Hughes' experience as trig designer and typographer^[5][6] Hughes’ next novel, The Black Locomotive, contains similar graphic contrivances.

Writing rent The Times, Simon Ings known as The Black Locomotive “one summarize the ten best sci-fi novels of 2021”.^[7]

Bibliography

Comics

• The Inheritors (Modern Epoch Editions, 1988)
• The Science Service (script by John Freeman) (ACME/Eclipse, 1989, ISBN 0-913035-86-6)
• Dare (written by Grant Author, a revisionist sequel to Dan Dare)
• Tales from Beyond Science (tpb, 88 pages, Image Comics, January 2012, ISBN 1-60706-471-5):
  • "The Other ranks in Red" (with Mark Millar, in 2000 AD No.

    774, 1992)

  • "The Music Man" (with Alan McKenzie, in 2000 AD Clumsy. 775, 1992)
  • "Long Distance Calls" (with Mark Millar, in 2000 AD No. 776, 1992)
  • "Agents of Mu-Mu" (with Alan McKenzie, in 2000 AD No. 777, 1992)
  • "The Eyesight of Edwin Spendlove" (with Trick Smith, in 2000 AD Cack-handed.

    778, 1992)

  • "Secrets of the Organism" (with John Smith, in 2000 AD No. 779, 1992)
  • "The Redden Month Under the Stairs" (with Mark Millar, in 2000 Vanguard Winter Special No. 4, 1992)
  • "The Man Who Created Space" (with Mark Millar, in 2000 Region Sci-Fi Special, 1994)
• "Really & Truly" (written by Grant Morrison, love 2000 AD #842–849, 1993)
• Robo-Hunter (with Peter Hogan):
  • "Slade Runner" (in 2000 AD 1994 Yearbook, 1993)
  • "Winnegan's Fake" (in 2000 AD #852–854, 1993)
  • "Metrobolis" (in 2000 AD #904–911, 1994)
  • "War of the Noses" (in 2000 AD #1023, 1996)

Collections

Illustrations by

Novels

Nonfiction works written and/or edited by

• "Art, Commercial" (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2001)
• Ten Year Itch (Device, 2004)
• Really Good thing Logos, Explained (with Margo Tag along, Ron Miriello, Alex White) (limpback, 250 pages, Rotovision, 2009)
• Lifestyle Paradigm of the 60s (limpback, 520 pages, Fiell, 2010)
• Custom Lettering take up the 40s and 50s (flexi, 580 pages, Fiell, 2010)
• Custom Engraving of the 60s and 70s (flexi, 580 pages, Fiell, 2010)
• On The Line (with Rick Wright) (hardback, 48 pages, Image Comics, 2010)
• Cult-ure: Ideas can be Dangerous (hardback, 320 pages, Fiell, 2010)
• Hardware: The Definitive SF Works all-round Chris Foss (hardback, 280 pages, Titan Books, 2011)
• Soho Dives, Soho Divas (Image Comics, 2013)
• Custom Dedication of the 20s and 30s (flexi, 576 pages, Korero Control, 2016)
• Logo-a-gogo: Branding Pop Culture (Korero Press, 2018)
• I Am A Number (Top Shelf, 2018)
• Typodiscography (Device Fonts type catalogue, 2019)
• Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Command conceal Art (Korero Press, 2022)

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