Jon Hicks

Gentleman Graphic Designer/Artist who wears many hats. Shoegazer, Birder and over-eater of eggs. Rivers of London is my comfort blanket.

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-14

@simoncox those are real though, so definitely worse!

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-14

I woke up to a malevolent presence holding me tightly down to the bed. I couldn't move, I couldn't speak. All I could manage was a kind of muffled grunt, in a vain attempt to fight back or call for help.

Sleep Paralysis #3

hicks.design/journal/sleep-par

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-13

@simoncox that’s mental fuckery at a very deep level

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-13

I think I would prefer ‘Tracing paper and Caslon artboard’ to Liquid Glass.

Aside from the obvious lack of contrast/readability, those shiny edges are just too flippin' much.

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-13

Just back from our annual Bruvs holiday. Keen to make sure we all see each other outside of weddings and funerals we go away for a few days of walking, cycling, eating and drinking. This year we lucked out with the weather, staying in the pretty Peak District village of Ashford-in-the-Water. It was such a good reset!

A selfie of three men in their fifties, who despite appearances, are actually all brothers. They are standing in front of the fast moving River Dove in Dove Dale.
Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-13

@AnthonyBaker @Luke My biggest issue with Apple Music is the lack of native Last.fm support. Every other music streaming service has this, and I'm fed up of relying on third-party solutions to do this. Spotify does this well, but have such an overtly shitty attitude to artists.

Just like you, I already pay for Spotify family subscription, so I kind of have to justify the extra cost. I don't think the flip flopping will ever stop 🫤

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-13

@Luke Thank you Luke, you're always so encouraging!

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-13

@cdevroe I recently had to update the angle of the smell lines, to reduce any similarity to a famous Nazi!

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-06

@BenCotterill I was loving that story and then 😔

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-06

@sil Photos yes (as in it has a dedicated Photos app like Plexamp is for music), but facial recognition no :(

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-06

@sil I do this in Plex with music, where Dropbox syncs to my Synology NAS, and the music folder in Dropbox is selected as the music source in Plex. Works really well, and means I can easily add new music to Plex from my desktop. Metadata is stored in Plex I think. I would guess the same could be done for Photos?

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-06

@patrick_h_lauke Nothing for _years_ and then two nice projects launch in a week!

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-06

This project was a dream to work on! To coincide with the launch of the new V&A East, the V&A approached me to consolidate and redesign their icon library to echo their new brand typeface Spiller. The result was a library of 217 new icons, with all the size versions of each bringing the total to 606.

I've yet to visit the V&A East (only opened last weekend!) to get photos of the icons being used 'in the field' but I couldn't wait any longer to start talking about it. 🤗

hicks.design/work/victoria-and

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-05

@glass Nominative determinism!

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Caesar Wirthcjwirth@mas.to
2025-06-05

uBlock Origin on Bluesky vs Mastodon

Two browser tabs open. One has Mastodon open, and uBlock Origin doesn't report blocking anything. In the other, Bluesky is open, and uBlock Origin is reporting 47 things blocked.
Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-04

I wonder where you could store your pants?

themodernhouse.com/sales-list/

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-04

@onpaperwings you’re doing the Lord’s work! 🫡

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2025-06-04

Longplay for Mac 0.8.0 is available in Early Access.

🤖 Standout feature is a built-in MCP server to control playback, create smart collections, and interact with your music library from other apps, notably Claude Desktop. It's a cool showcase of the future that Apple promised at WWDC 2024.

Other improvements include better accessibility support, UI polish, Apple Music playback robustness, and more.

Grab the update through the app or from buy.longplay.app/. 1.0 is getting close!

Screenshot of Longplay, a music rediscovery app for macOS, showing a new feature where the user chats with Claude to find albums they added in the last year but haven’t listened to much. Claude uses Longplay's provided tools to return those albums. The user then asks to create a smart collection, which is then displayed in Longplay
Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-04

@sitenonsite this is art in itself. 👌

Jon Hicksjonhicks
2025-06-03

@jasonsantamaria so spot on, thanks for writing this!

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