Rian Hughes

Recent articles by Rian Hughes

Drawn to be wild

Issue 71, Spring 2009

Feature

Expressive, explosive and sometimes beautiful, this hand-drawn magazine lettering defies categorisation [EXTRACT]

Isometric illustrator

Issue 55, Spring 2005

Review

Hipgnosis. Dark Side of the Moon. Hardie’s iconic collaborations with Storm Thorgerson and co. for…

Home of the hits

Review

Way back in 1990 new software tools, especially Fontographer, had just begun to democratise the font…

Outsider art in the raw

Review

‘L’Art Brut’, literally ‘raw’ or ‘crude’ art, is the term the French painter and avant-gardist Jean…

Burning issues and damp squibs

Review

Architecture Must Burn is not a call to set light to your prefab office block. Aaron…

Talking pictures

Issue 11, Winter 1993

Feature

The comic book speech bubble has evolved into a highly expressive form of vernacular lettering

Where is the love?

Issue 63, Spring 2007

Opinion

Letter from Rian Hughes, Devicefonts

Meanwhile, in the weird world of art

Issue 39, Spring 2001

Opinion

When musicians remake an old hit, it’s called a cover version. When a painter copies an illustrator it’s called fine art