Rian Hughes
Recent articles by Rian Hughes
Drawn to be wild
Issue 71, Spring 2009
Expressive, explosive and sometimes beautiful, this hand-drawn magazine lettering defies categorisation [EXTRACT]
Isometric illustrator
Issue 55, Spring 2005
Hipgnosis. Dark Side of the Moon. Hardie’s iconic collaborations with Storm Thorgerson and co. for…
Home of the hits
Way back in 1990 new software tools, especially Fontographer, had just begun to democratise the font…
Outsider art in the raw
‘L’Art Brut’, literally ‘raw’ or ‘crude’ art, is the term the French painter and avant-gardist Jean…
Burning issues and damp squibs
Architecture Must Burn is not a call to set light to your prefab office block. Aaron…
Talking pictures
Issue 11, Winter 1993
The comic book speech bubble has evolved into a highly expressive form of vernacular lettering
Meanwhile, in the weird world of art
Issue 39, Spring 2001
When musicians remake an old hit, it’s called a cover version. When a painter copies an illustrator it’s called fine art