About

A greying bearded man in glasses standing in front of a plywood wall with three navigations icons printed larger than a hand - a toilet, a wheechair user and pram parking. He is very happy because he is proud to see his work being used large in a public space, in fact it made him quite emotional.
Jon Hicks standing in front of his icons at the V&A Museum East in 2025

Hicks.design is Jon Hicks, collaborating with clients worldwide from my studio in Oxfordshire, UK, since 2002.

I am most known for my branding work for Firefox, MailChimp and Shopify, but my skills cover a much broader spectrum of services and mediums. I simply call myself a Graphic Designer, as that encompasses everything I enjoy doing: creating visual languages and communicating through symbols, illustration and typography.

I also love designing with CSS. This site doesn't use any @media query breakpoints. It uses a flexible 'content out' methodology, where the width of the content, not the screen, decides the layout. I love how much can be achieved with CSS these days.

A man and woman in their early 50s, both wearing black framed glasses, holding plastic cups with a modern art painting behind
Jon and Leigh Hicks enjoying art and a G&T at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

I'm one half of a creative partnership with my wife Leigh Hicks. As well as digital work, we still enjoy the buzz of making something physical, whether it's with ink, paint or clay. Or even eggs.

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