RIAN HUGHES is a graphic designer, illustrator, comic artist, author, and typographer. From his studio, Device, he has produced watches for Swatch, Hawaiian shirts, logo designs for Batman and Spiderman, an iconoclastic revamp of british comic hero Dan Dare, and collaborated on a set of six children's books with Geri Halliwell. A retrospective monograph, 'Art, Commercial' was published in 2002. Recent books include 'Cult-ure: Ideas can be Dangerous' and 'Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s', and his comic strips have been collected in 'Yesterdays Tomorrows', which was launched recently at the ICA, London.
