Aidan Hughes (1956) is a commercial artist. He was born in Merseyside, England, and was trained as an artist by his father, himself a landscape painter.
In the 1980s, Hughes published a pulp-style magazine called BRUTE!. Brute! has become an occasional pseudonym for Hughes as well.
Hughes usually works in a very high contrast style, often black and white, but more often black and white accented with one other color. He claims influence from American comic book artist Jack Kirby, John Martin, and (most apparently) from Russian propaganda posters.
Aidan Hughes is best known for creating most of the album covers for the industrial band KMFDM. Two of KMFDM's music videos ("A Drug Against War," "Son of a Gun") were animated versions of Hughes's artwork.
His other work has included outdoor murals, including the 75 meter mural in Barga Italy during 2003[2] which has since been covered over with an earth bank; and a wide variety of advertisements, including pieces for the Bank of Scotland, and Guinness.
Hughes is credited for the art design and concept of ZPC (Zero Population Count), a first-person shooter computer game developed in 1996 using the Marathon 2 engine.
In 2017, Hughes co-founded Tweak, the on-demand photo-editing app for iOS and Android-powered by real designers.
Aidan Hughes joined the BogArt collective in 2006. This street art organization attempted to subvert the burgeoning graffiti/tagging culture by using public toilet advertising space as an alternative gallery space. They also produced a number of short films, detailing their art happenings and protests on the streets of Prague, Czech Republic.
© 2020. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by Aidan Hughes. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only
In the 1980s, Hughes published a pulp-style magazine called BRUTE!. Brute! has become an occasional pseudonym for Hughes as well.
Hughes usually works in a very high contrast style, often black and white, but more often black and white accented with one other color. He claims influence from American comic book artist Jack Kirby, John Martin, and (most apparently) from Russian propaganda posters.
Aidan Hughes is best known for creating most of the album covers for the industrial band KMFDM. Two of KMFDM's music videos ("A Drug Against War," "Son of a Gun") were animated versions of Hughes's artwork.
His other work has included outdoor murals, including the 75 meter mural in Barga Italy during 2003[2] which has since been covered over with an earth bank; and a wide variety of advertisements, including pieces for the Bank of Scotland, and Guinness.
Hughes is credited for the art design and concept of ZPC (Zero Population Count), a first-person shooter computer game developed in 1996 using the Marathon 2 engine.
In 2017, Hughes co-founded Tweak, the on-demand photo-editing app for iOS and Android-powered by real designers.
Aidan Hughes joined the BogArt collective in 2006. This street art organization attempted to subvert the burgeoning graffiti/tagging culture by using public toilet advertising space as an alternative gallery space. They also produced a number of short films, detailing their art happenings and protests on the streets of Prague, Czech Republic.
© 2020. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by Aidan Hughes. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only
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| A Drug Against War |
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| Hell from Heaven |
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| Knight |
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| Naive |
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| Self-portrait |
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| War Bus |
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| Something for the weekend? |
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| Norton Bikeman |
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| Left Right, 2016 |
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| Hell Yeah |
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| Don’t Blow Your Top |
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| Crash |
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| Driving man |
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| Ava Gardner |
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| Blog |
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| Drum |
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| Hong Kong Protests |
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| Lucia Cifarelli from KMFDM |
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| Nowhere Nation Hell From Heaven Video |
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| OMICRON |
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| Son of a Gun |
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| Split |
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| Abe Lincoln |
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| Brute |
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| Graffiti artist |
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| KMFDM final |
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| KMFDM Paradise |
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| Marcus Colston |
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| Panic attack |
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| Swords |
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| portrait of Drew, a huge KMFDM fan |
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| Milan Fras (Laibach) portrait |
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| Chainsaw |
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| Accelerator |
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| Chop |
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| KMFDM WTF |
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| Salvation, ties in with the one from the Paradise cover |
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| the Kennedys |
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| Unnamed |
The one titled HongKong protest is the cover or KMFDM's 2014 album "Our time will come"
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