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
Too few times in an artist’s life will come clients offering him creative control over their content.
And so it was with now-defunct Kurator, whose art director seemed happy enough with my work until last month when they went suspiciously quiet and refused to answer my emails.
A quick scan of the web reveals no such magazine. Ah well.
Its a bitch of a time to be starting up such endeavors and my condolences go to the staff of yet another deceased monthly art and design title.
UPDATE: I spoke with the editor of the mag who informs me that they will be back in business in the next couple of months once they sort out their advertisers.
Here’s the first of two covers I did for Kiev-based Kurator magazine.
Ink Originals from the featured cover will shortly be available from this blog.
One of the cool things about my job is the opportunities it throws up to make you see the work in a new light.
I was recently asked to do a series of helmet designs for a racing team and was intrigued by the way the shape of the helmet dictated the dynamics of the art. Shortly after sending in these roughs, I began to build and texture the helmet in 3D, the results I will post later.
The final image for Vincent Compean’s calf tattoo featuring legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi conquering a fictitious monster. This took me almost four months of research and conceptual designing and I am more than happy with the result, especially as its fantasy aspect is one that’s relatively new to me.
Check back to the blog in a couple of months to see how the tattoo is progressing.
An album cover design I did for the celebrated MC5 guitarist, Wayne Kramer. I was living in London’s Notting Hill area and his record company was at the bottom of my street. Somehow, I managed to wangle my portfolio into their offices and this is the ensuing art.
