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 rian hughes
rian hughes

rian hughes is a british graphic designer , illustrator and comics artist , noted for his work on `` 2000ad '' , where he illustrated `` robo-hunter '' , `` tales from beyond science '' , `` really and truly '' and `` dan dare '' , among others .
his work was highly distinctive , wearing its design influences on its sleeve , daring to be two-dimensional and bold in its use of large expanses of flat , bold colours .
this stood out particularly during the early 1990s , when british comics were leaning ever more towards fully painted art .
unusually , hughes preferred to be his own letterer , and designed several unusual fonts for this purpose .
since leaving comics illustration , hughes has become a successful advertising artist , graphic designer and font designer .
he runs his own company , device , with clients including virgin airways , penguin books , dc comics , eurostar the bbc and a range of magazines and newspapers .
hughes prefers to design his own fonts for new projects usually giving them humorous and occasionally rude names .
the font `` knobcheese '' was marketed as `` a typeface in the swiss -lrb- cheese -rrb- tradition .
with knobs on . ''
