Aidan Hughes was born on Merseyside, England and was formally trained by his father. His influences include Golden Age comic artists Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and Jim Steranko, the Russian Constructivists, the Italian Futurists and the work of woodcut artists Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward.
Despite having never attended art school, he entered the world of commercial art producing artwork and storyboards for clients such as Warner Bros. the BBC and The London Evening Standard. In the 80's he began a long-term collaboration with industrial band KMFDM, created BRUTE! pulp magazine and worked extensively in radio, TV and the media. Hughes other work includes designing and art directing, computer games, short film making and animation. Official Wikipedia entry
Some articles of clothing are so sublime, I find it hard to contain my excitement upon discovering them.
I’ve seen a recent departure from the traditional military/urban jacket to a more multi-purpose, soft fabric workwear, none more so than this two-ply cotton work shirt/jacket from Post O’Alls. Along with the similar Nigel Claiborne gingham shirt jacket, these brands are paving the way for a more purpose-related garment for the modern urban male.
Anyone interested in these shirts should buy me one, size Large.
Many of you coming here will have seen that my main site at bruteprop.com is down. This is due to annual network maintenance. Business will be back to normal as soon as possible.
In the final stages of the tattoo design. Colours have been saturated to give more of a feeling of old skool sailor tattoos to correspond with the dark noir of Chris Lefler’s ‘Street’ tattoo on his other arm.
I imagine there will be more tweaking over the next month with possibly a character change or two (‘Are there too many naked women?’ I ask myself).
Visual Art Assassination is an East Coast Art Collective with members as far north as Connecticut and as south as Virginia. The VAA Collective is made up of a tight group of socially conscious art activists. The purpose of the VAA is to use art as a weapon to empower the mind and facilitate change. Visual Art Assassination is a completely independent, exclusive and self-contained organization that relies only on it’s inner core members.
More rough helmet designs for Bimmerworld racing team.
I first built a basic helmet shape in 3D (Poser 4) and then textured them with the artwork, taking snaps of the front, back, sides and top plus a three-quarter profile. Finally, in Photoshop, I cut and pasted them over the helmet line-art and photos supplied by the company.
