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Aidan Hughes is a . He was born in 1956 in Wallasey, and was trained as an artist by his father, himself a landscape painter.
In the 1980s, Hughes published a Pulp magazine-style magazine called BRUTE!. Brute! has become an occasional pseudonym for Hughes as well.
Hughes usually works in a very high contrast style, often black and white, but more often black and white accented with one other color. He claims influence from United States comic book artist Jack Kirby, the painter John Martin, and (most apparently) from propaganda posters.
Aidan Hughes created most of the for the industrial music band KMFDM. Two of KMFDM's music videos ("A Drug Against War," "Son of a Gun") were animation versions of Hughes's artwork.
His other work has included outdoor , including the 75 metre mural in Barga, Italy, during 2003 which has since been covered over with an earth bank; and a wide variety of advertising, including pieces for the Bank of Scotland, and Guinness.
Hughes is credited for the art design and concept of ZPC ( Zero Population Count), a first-person shooter computer game developed in 1996 using the Marathon 2 engine.
In 2017, Hughes co-founded Tweak, a photo-editing app for iOS and Android.
He presently lives and works in the Czech Republic.
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