Recently received this pic from a fan. Thanks Mary.
World Leaders series
I was recently asked by bar owner and entrepreneur, Glenn Spicker, to come up with a series of posters for his new bar/cafe. Situated in central Prague, Glenn’s bar boasts a museums-worth of cultural gems and artefacts culled from decades tracking down propaganda from the era of Communism. Called Propaganda, the new bar is the home of my new World Leaders series. Featuring the movers and shakers behind the political and cultural revolutions of the 80’s, the posters took me just over ten days to produce and will be showcased on the walls of the main room.
Keep posted for details of the bar’s opening.
Canvas posters will be available from the club/bar shop or from the online BRUTE! Products page.
BRUTE!Republik exhibition promo.
A short promo I made for the BRUTE! Republik exhibition.
Vector experiments
For a recent commission, I found myself with a background problem to solve: how to render a psychedelic background in a couple of hours.
After various experiments with fractal vector failed to get the desired results, I gave up and began to search the web for some old-skool hippy patterns and/or trippy posters etc. until I came upon one packed with all manner of day-glo, spiral eye-candy. As anyone will tell you, I cannot stand this sort of thing so after an hour, I decided to turn the background into vectors with Live Trace and, as an afterthought, de-grouped the lot and applied a gradient. I then expanded the gradients again into steps.
Although it’s still not what the client wants, I found the random architectural shapes quite astonishing.
FREE MSFF posters!
BRUTE! Propaganda created this poster specially for the Manhattan Short Film Festival, in 2007.
Printed on glossy photo paper, this heroic poster comes in two formats and is signed by the artist, Aidan Hughes.
For a limited period, we’ll be giving these posters FREE to customers who buy items from BRUTE! Products Shop.
Spending over €70 will get you the A4 size while those purchasing items over €150 will receive the larger A3 format.
We only have a limited number to give away so order your items now to take advantage of this free offer!
New BRUTE! ink originals for SALE
Over the last few months, I have been able to amass dozens of rare original ink illustrations dating from the early 90s to the present day and I am pleased to announce their sale here on the blog.
Included in the sale are rare and unseen KMFDM concept art, original draft illustrations, animation storyboards and frames plus original BRUTE! pulp covers and vintage advertising artworks. Ranging in price from 50 to 500 euros, each one is a collector’s item, signed by Aidan Hughes.
To explore the current collection, please refer to the ‘Inks’ section of our Products page.
BRUTE Republik stickers now on sale!
Due to considerable interest following the BRUTE! Republik opening in Prague last week, BRUTE! Propaganda are pleased to offer stickers from the show. Printed on glossy, self-adhesive vinyl by Twisted Sticker and measuring 4 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ these limited edition stickers are all-weather durable for 5 years and come in packs of 12.
To order please go to our Products page.
Rare BRUTE! pulps
Another haul from the UK vaults uncovered some extremely rare back issues of the original BRUTE! pulp nasties.
This is what started it all back in 1984. Tiny but brutal slabs of white-hot pulp, BRUTE! debuted to universal praise and sell-out print-runs. Beloved of schoolkids and pensioners, trendies and boozers, BRUTE!’s amalgamation of hard-boiled pulp and savage illustration exploded onto the literary world with all the subtlety of a steak hammer to a bunny head. Taking their inspiration from men’s magazines of the 40s and 50s, authors Aidan Hughes and Malcolm Bennett turned literary convention on its collective head throughout the 80s, the magazine spawning a cartoon, a kids’ TV series, a best-selling paperback and several major advertising campaigns before breathing its last in 1989 with issue 7.
I have available for sale several copies of issues 5, 6 and 7. These are in a very good condition, having been stored in air-tight containers, and the colours are still vivid.
Printed on glossy A6 format art paper, these are sure to increase in value and are a bona fide collector’s item. They are nowhere to be found on the web nor any book nor comic shops, to my knowledge.
Before I auction them on eBay in two month’s time, I am offering them here for 60 euros each + shipping (multiple orders possible).
Please contact me via bruteprop@gmail.com or purchase direct from the products shop
Be sure to order yours today!
MESSIAH – game concept art
Back when I was working as an art director and writer for Zombie Games in Seattle, I came up with a, for then, revolutionary game concept called Messiah.
To play, you set out as a child and worked your way through eight quests, each one leading you further onward to eventually become a wise elder who unites and frees the enslaved populace.
As there were no weapons involved, the player had to use their wits, charm, stealth and cunning to get to the top. Unfortunately, it was such a revolutionary concept in 1998 that it was unable to be made into a game.
Maybe next time…
In those days, my usual way of presenting an idea was in the style of a graphic novel which normally took me between a week and ten days to flesh out. The above illustration was hand-drawn in ink on A3 paper and represents a few of the levels contained in the game which would later be expanded on by the level designers.
I presented this concept to GT Interactive and Zombie shortly before I left the company to go freelance.
This original artwork is available for purchase. Offers to: bruteprop@gmail.com