Rian Hughes

Hughes graduated from London College of Printing and was employed at various advertising agencies where he worked for ID magazine, Smash Hits and Condé Nast.

His strips from the "Galaxy’s Greatest" have been collected in Yesterday’s Tomorrows ("Dare", "Really and Truly" plus others) and Tales from Beyond Science, written by Mark Millar, John Smith and Alan McKenzie.

More recently he wrote and drew a Batman: Black and White tale for DC Comics, contributed to Vertigo: Magenta, and was reunited with Morrison for two stories in Heavy Metal.

Hughes' design for the music industry includes album artwork for Ultravox[3] and Oxford-based rock group The Winchell Riots.

Further work included the animated on-board safety film for Virgin Airlines, a Eurostar poster campaign, and a collection for Swatch.

His design work, including logos for Batman, the X-Men, Superman, The Avengers and James Bond, is collected in the Eisner-nominated book Logo-a-Gogo, published by Korero Press in 2018.

Metropol Noir, created specifically for the BDA Gold Award-winning 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards programme, is named after the Paris hotel Hughes was put up in for the event.