Jon Hicks

@hicks.design

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Gentleman Graphic Designer/Artist who wears many hats. Shoegazer, Birder and over-eater of eggs. Works on the Troika music podcast and Supernatural Detective's Field Guide in his spare time. https://hicks.design https://supernaturaldetectives.com

The packaging for the reed diffuser says - Exotic notes of orris root & violet leaf to help nervous exhaustion and general feelings of annoyance. Skillfully fused with lemon verbena, amber & sandalwood to uplift and restore
Hicksdesign | 6 May to 5 Jun 2026 Inferno by Boards of Canada • The Portcullis by Graham Reynolds • Foutu Félin by Bolbec • Birding by deary • Acknowledge Kindness by The Reds, Pinks and Purples • American Football (LP4) by American Football • Remember The Humans by Broken Social Scene • Dim Sum & Then Some by Chinese American Bear• The Beatles (White Album) [Super Deluxe ]by The Beatles • Not Here Not Gone by Blackwater Holylight • Whistle and I'll Come to You by Death and Vanilla • Holy Island by Sister Ray Davies • The Besnard Lakes are the Ghost Nation by The Benard Lakes • The Endless Dance by Hannah Peel • Fables by Isabel Pine • Feeling Is Structure by Max Cooper • Where Light Settles by Jasmine Myra • Lifeforms by The Future Sound of London • Given To The Wild by The Maccabees • The Second Coming Was a Moonrise by Hammock • Excuses For Travellers by Mojave 3 • Alpinisms by School of Seven Bells • Rome by The National • Lucky Now by Lande Hekt• The Boys Of Dungeon Lane by Paul McCartney
A timelapse video of the development of the illustration, from really crude basic doodles, to final pencil, and then vector colouring.
U.F.Orb by the Orb
A fake 1970s album cover for the made up band Windfucker
A manly, but chubby, hand holding a small green ice cream on a stick
A sandwich in a windowed cardboard carton
An black and white sketch on an iPad, in front of a window with foliage outside. There is a hazel hurdle panel to hide the wheelie bins
Philadelphia by Shabason, Krgovich & Harris
Doug's Big Time Tour Each event will be from 12pm - 5pm: Sat 16th May - Minster Lovell Hall Ruins, Minster Lovell Sat 23rd May - Brighton Beach, Brighton and Hove Sat 30th May - The Dodo Micropub, Hanwell, London Sat 13th June - Bruhaha, Bristol (followed by live ambient performances)
A t-shirt with the Arcteryx logo, subtly changed to read Arcte HIX. For Hicks - gettit?
A protest march with a beautiful multi-coloured version of the Union Jack
The screenshot says “ a sound was played on Kenneth”
Screenshot of Google Street View showing a young actor dressed as a 1950s schoolboy stealing a sign that says The Boys of Dungeon Lane
Screenshot of Apple Musics new view of larger album cover and queue list.
A screenshot of an iOS widget showing recently played albums. Bruce’s head is positioned atop of Kim’s legs, like some sort of bobblehead figure
A very sweet toasted hot cross bun, with bacon and fried egg filling visible, on a wooden board instead of a plate. Presumably because the wood helps absorb the dripping honey and butter
Albums - 'art view' with large album artwork
A screenshot of an email intro, which says: Hello Jon, If you're seeing this, we made it happen, 1600 booked meetings this past year using Al
A black and white duck
Blackboard sign outside in a lane, that says draw art store
A yellow book called The Cheese Life
A pair of ducks bobbing on a lake, the male is striking black and white
A large haggis, holding an equally large haggis
A screenshot of a playlist, with a small avatar next to each album cover
A shop sign with the words Confectionery, Tobacconist, Fancy Goods, News Agents, but with each letter on a new line to run vertically.
The Hummingbird, Birmingham, UK
A muffin-based sandwich on a plate, cheese can be see, seductively oozing out of the sides, with disc shaped hash browns on the side. If someone was trying to bait a trap for me, they would be using this sandwich. They’d have profiled me, and put everything I like into one delicious oozy stack of festive delight. And does it need to have turkey to be festive? I don't think so, it's usually the blandest part, and especially when the homemade cranberry sauce is this good (not overly sweet, and actually tastes of cranberries!). The sage was beautiful, and even with the higher expectations that come with the high price (£15!) it comes out on top. Winner!
Two very similar album covers featuring a triangular structure amongst a natural landscape
Two very similar album covers featuring a triangular structure amongst a natural landscape
In my world, 'all the trimmings’ means Pigs in Blankets and red cabbage, not crunchy carrot and parsnip. Cranberry barely detectable, chicken pennpenny-pinchinglyll, and as with all wraps, too much wrap.
Alt: A festive sandwich in a red carton, against a green backdrop and wooden table. And yes, I did spend a while retouching the knackered bits of the table, because I was ashamed of it. Review: Checked the ‘master database’ and it turns out I haven’t reviewed this one yet. Most generous Cranberry I've had so far, but it tasted 'bad batch' wrongw - watery and sugary, and some other weird taste instead of cranberry. It would've been OK otherwise. 5% goes to Shelter #festivesandwichreviews #festivesandwichreviews2025
A festive sandwich in a red carton, against a green backdrop and wooden table. And yes, I did spend a while retouching the knackered bits of the table, because I was ashamed of it.
A toasted cheese sandwich, barely standing up due to the lack of filling
🥪 Turkey shavings and bacon leaf (like gold leaf, but with bacon) with sage & onion stuffing dust, the lightest of mayonnaise and cranberry smears on cheese topped white bread. This time the review is in the ingredients list. Tasted of cheese of toast with a distant, almost imagined it, hint of festivity. It gets 1 point for not being cardboardy bread. Photo shows a toasted cheese sandwich, barely standing up due to the lack of filling.
Alt: A simple cheese and chutney sandwich in a carton. Review: Surprised to find that in four years of Festive Sandwich Reviews I haven’t done the M&S Brie & Cranberry. Probably because it's just the ‘all year round' M&S Brie & Cranberry in a festive carton. I made sure that the brie had a chance to get nice and oozy, but it was really bland. The cranberry smear tasted like it looked - thin. 5% goes to Shelter.
A beautiful looking turkey sandwich, with thick white brioche bread, a small tub of gravy and a pot of tater tots. £14.50, so the judging is stricter! So many good festive flavours going on, it could’ve been a 9, except… NO CRANBERRY. Pigs in blankets and bread sauce would’ve made it a perfect 10. The hash brown tater tots were ace, as were the parsnip crisps on top!
Like Bob's Burgers, they must come up with the puns first, and then make a sandwich around it? Tasted a bit more festive than I expected, but surprised they didn't go with Chestnut stuffing flavours in the falafel, rather than spinach & pine nuts. Bonus point for not too many layers of wrap!
A queue going up steps to a grand museum entrance with ionic columns either side.
App icons for Instagram, BBC Weather and Monzo, with annoyingly shiny top left and bottom right corners. It subtly makes them look crooked
RADIOHEAD Thank you for registering your details for tickets to Radiohead Europe 2025. Unfortunately, you have not been randomly allocated an unlock code for this Friday's sale. While every effort has been made to accommodate as many fans as possible, the number of registrations far exceeded the available tickets.
A black two seater convertible roadster with the top down, parked by a mill.
A young texan guitarist seated playing guitar on a dark stage
A panoramic illustration of a late 1970s detective office. There's a lot going on, so take a seat and I'll walk you through everything! On the left wall, is the door, with a trench coat hanging on a hook. To the left of the door is a string of garlic, and around the welcome mat is a line of salt, with a plastic tub of Saxa salt, a popular brand of salt in the 70s. At the centre back of the room is an evidence board and street map, to which a moustached detective with rolled up shirt sleeves pins a polaroid photo. Inset to the left of the back wall are shelves with books, jars of ghosts, a severed hand in a glass case, a copy of the Yellow Pages, Dowsing Rods, Electromagnetic Field Detector and a 1970s SLR camera. Inset to the right are some dark grey metal filing cabinets, with Bubbles the Clown emerging from one of the open drawers. Bubbles is meant to be locked away, but somehow has escaped, and has revenge on his mind. Above the cabinets are three posters. The first is a photo of a UFO above a line of trees with the phrase 'I don't know what to believe' (a parody of the X-Files). The second is a girl with hair in bunches, sticking her tongue out, with the headline 'Have you seen this demon? Do not approach!'. The third, and final, poster features a balding man about to be sprayed in green goo, with the headline 'Ectoplasm health & safety'. On the right wall is a window with Venetian blinds rolled up, and the ghost of a victorian lady can be seen on other side of the glass. In front of the window a male detective sits, taking notes while speaking on a red rotary telephone. In the foreground, a female detective in a blue jumper reads one of many sheets emerging from the haunted typewriter. Next to her are a pile of papers, held down by an eerie stone head, a plate of biscuits and a boiling kettle in which a generic ghostly spirit can be seen in the steam.
A screenshot from Tidal on iOS, with a red error message at the bottom - Could not add to my collection
My Lock Screen consists of weather widgets telling me the temperature is 23 degrees, a shortcut to Halide camera app, a now playing widget (Requiem for Dying Mothers by Stars of the Lid) on top of an image of my son and daughter
Me standing proudly against a veneered plywood wall with large icons representing Cloakroom, Gender-neutral Toilet, Disabled access and pushchair parking
An Ai generated toddy band photo, which features a reel to reel tape machine, with just one reel. Presumably because AI got confused with a turntable.
A graphic that says "Apple Music 10 Years", where the 0 is the MacOS spinning beachball. Such is my experience with Apple Music.