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Hicks.design's Music of 2023

A roundup of all my favourite Albums and EPs that came out in 2023, featuring Lanterns on the Lake, Slowdive and Harp

Troika Podcast:

Troika #46, best of 2023. Featuring the covers of Versions of Us by Lanterns on the Lake, Albion by Harp and Everything is Alive by Slowdive.

Troika #46: Best of 2023

My favourite songs from 2023, with twenty-one tracks it will keep you busy for almost two hours!

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2023

Hicks.design's Music of 2023

Troika #46, best of 2023. Featuring the covers of Versions of Us by Lanterns on the Lake, Albion by Harp and Everything is Alive by Slowdive.

Troika #46: Best of 2023

For the love of Bandcamp

Troika #45 - Brian McBride

Nine is the Level - Traces videos

Bruce Cockburn at the O2 Oxford

A black and white photo of Brian sitting on a porch looking ponderously at the camera

Brian McBride 1970–2023

A new logo for Thunderbird

Troika #44: Moderate, becoming good

SpellStruck Icons

The four members of Lanterns on the Lake perfoming in front of a sunny window at the Truck music store in Oxford.

Lanterns on the Lake at Truck

Troika #43: Bryan

A photo of starry lights against a black background (Yayoi Kurasma's Infinity Room in fact) with the original TV series text of 'Don't Panic!' written in yellow on top.

Troika #42: Don't Panic!

My Local Birding Patch

A 1970s record cover featuring a Robin sitting on the rusted metal handle of a bucket. The odd lighting makes it looks suspiciously like a studio shot.

A Year's Journey

Troika #41: New Music

Hamish Hawk in a dramatic pose with one hand out towards the audience

Hamish Hawk at the Scala, London

Examples of F37 Beckett font in use on pre 1960s British road signs

Fiddling makes me happy

Truck Signage

The art deco style Empire Cinema created on the Margate seafront with a large block of flats close behind it

Empire of Light

A close up of the white 'traces' lettering on the front of the insert made from black card. It's surrounded by 4 photos of Doug's grandparents.

Making the Traces Deluxe EP Insert

A close up of the label, printed white text directly onto the bottle. The text reads 'The Red Cask Company, Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky aged 12 years'. The whisky gives a nice warm orangey brown background to the text.

Hill House font in use: Red Cask Co.

I have a thing about Blackbirds

The vinyl EP standing up, with the disc pulled half out. The various photographs and leaflets are laid out in front

Remnants Deluxe Vinyl

2022

Hicks.design's Music of 2022

Festive Sandwich Reviews 2022

Marsh Harrier over Cley

Mastodon

Front view of the Wacom Cintiq 27 Pro

Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 review

Nine is the Level - Crumbs EP

TRUCK

Four Eras of Birding

Sketches - Barn Owl At Rushy Common

Exporting Mask Groups in SVGs from Figma

Nine is the Level - Traces EP cover

Blackbird Studies II

I wanted to be Mat Irvine

20 years

2021

Report a Murder

A collage of all nine album covers

Hicks' Music of 2021

A set of 50 square Moo business cards with my favourite albums printed on them. An NFC tag on the back of the card plays the music via iPhone

Moo Card Player

Vinyl

My dad, me and my brothers on the Echills Wood Miniature Railway in Stoneleigh Warwickshire

Bryan Font - v1.3

Bryan Font - Complete European Glyphs

Bryan Font

My Dad, me, and my brothers on the miniature railway in Stoneleigh, I had such wild white hair when I was two

John Bryan Hicks 1932–2021

Little Ringed Plover looking for food amongst the gravel at Rushy Common, near Witney

Little Ringed Plover

A portrait of Olive

Troika #40: Olive

Dan when he was just two years old, with the photographer reflected in his twinkly eyes

Troika #39: For Dan

Olive

One Footer in the Grave

An artists impression of a jar of Marmayo, mixing marmite with mayonnaise. The label reads Yeast Extract with Mayonaisse

Marmayo

Troika #38: The Besnard Lakes are…

TPGi Logo

Apple Pencil with broken tip. You can just about make out the broken portion still inside the Pencil

Fixing a Broken Apple Pencil

Troika #37: Electronicky

6 egg paintings of eggs in a black non-stick pan. The pan handle isn't shown, and the eggs often look like faces

Eggs

Recent Work: Protecting Health Care Workers

A montage of all the albums in this years list

Hicks' Music of 2020

2020

Studio Clearout - 2020 Edition

iPad Pro with Raspberry Pi 4 attached via USB-C

iPad Pi

Abstract image of a sliver of light illuminating a golden sphere. It's actually the inside of my kitchen ceiling light

Troika #36: Dark Mode

Hicksmade post and ceramic rings

Hicksmade

Screenshot of Kirby powering my site, showing each entry as cards

Kirby

Moving away from Statamic

Receiptify

Bird feeding

Moving to Statamic

Grey Wagtail at Farmoor Reservoir

Cormorant at Rushy Common

Great Crested Grebe

iPad Pro Magic Keyboard thoughts

Pipes

Great White Egret in flight at Rushy Common

Weeknotes 1st March

iPad Pro as Computer - one year on

Weeknotes 7.2.20

Weeknotes 26.1.20

Weeknotes 19.1.20

The icon house after the rain

Hicks' Albums of 2019

2019

Weeknotes 14.12.19

Weeknotes 7.12.19

Weeknotes 30.11

Marsh Harrier at Otmoor

Weeknotes 22.11

Weeknotes 15.11

My daughter Samantha at 6 months, showing a cute toothless smile

Troika #35: Happy Birthtape!

Troika #34: Voice

Oystercatcher studies

Birds of Rushy Common: Great White Egret

Birds of Rushy Common: Peregrine Falcon

Birds of Rushy Common: Great Black Backed Gull

A homage to the last part of film credits, where the music is often listed

Troika #33: Endings

Identity Design discussion on Elastic Brand podcast

Using the iPad Pro as my main computer

2018

Blackbird Studies

Hicks' top albums of 2018

Hicks Studio Clearout!

New Identity for iHasco

Leigh and Jon did Inktober

We are Oxvik

The Hicks Logowall

Hiding Away

Biro sketch of Lauzerte

Firefox Identity Project

It’s just fashion

The Symbol Sourcebook

Differences between Icon and Logo Design on This is HCD Podcast

Twelve South PencilSnap

The Infinite Canvas

2017

Blade Runner 2049

iPad Pro Pencil loop

A simple illustration of a blue person crying, with a single white tear on their cheek

Troika #32: Tearjerker

Bark Study

Opera Desktop Browser

Icon Design Process talk at Reasons To 2017

A French field at dusk, with the last rays of sunlight beaming out from the centre of the horizon

Troika #31: Dusk

A Japanese Mech style robot, from the cover of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's first album

Troika #30: 85–87

Radiohead and me

A rendering of a spaceship on a dusty alien planet, taken from the game No Mans Sky

Troika #29: 10 Months Later

Found in the woods

2016

No Man's Sky

DuckDuckGo Stories

Recent Work: DuckDuckGo

Raise your Handbag!

The moral obligations of a graphic designer?

Back in Stock

MYOB Client Portal Icons

Skyfonts Logo for Monotype

An elderly Dj Derek at the decks, not long before he died

Troika #28: DJ Derek

A hot cup of tea. An early iPad illustration, which was a bit wonky and rubbish to be frank

Troika #27: Cuppa Tino

The shores of Lake Windermere in the Lake District. The water is perfectly still and giving a crisp reflection of the trees on the shoreline.

Troika #26: Windermere

Besnard Lakes live at the Islington Assembly Hall

Fabric Cageless Water Bottle

Troika #25: Valentines Edition

Troika #24: Dearly Departed

Bat Labels

Troika #23: Best of 2015

2015

Troika #22: A Hickensian Christmas II

Troika #21: A Hickensian Christmas

Troika #20: Take it Slow

Troika #19: Bleeps

Troika #18: Randoms

Troika #17: The Scotch Egg

Troika #16: Diddly-dum! Diddly-dum!…

Troika #15: Sub Dove Rivers

Troika #14: Reading Festival

Record covers - August

Troika #13: Oooph!

Troika #12: Le Tour!

Troika #11: All about the Bassists

Troika #10: For Leigh

Troika #9: For Mum

A Big Assed Post about bike saddles for my Big Ass

Troika #8: Misson Control

Slowdive performing "Golden Hair" at Pitchfork

Troika #7: Donuts

Troika #6: My Turn to be Poorly

A Taste of the Track

Troika #5: New Gaze

Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell: album stream

Troika #4: Light Music

Troika #3: Music for Cycling

Communication Arts on Icon Design

Troika #2: (not so) Guilty Pleasures

Troika #1: Music for Stars

Troika - a new music podcast

Mew - Satellites

GIF-ITI

An Event Apart - Boston

Hicks.design's Year of Music 2014

2014

All I want to do is ride my bike & not be hassled by The Man

Revisionist Rye Pale Ale

Nick Offerman's Handcrafted Wood Emojis

The Oral History of the Poop Emoji

Icon Design Process - Beyond Tellerand

Commuting without spamming

Epleslang Packaging

Origins of Common UI symbols

Affinity Designer, Sketch and Illustrator

The 'Icon Design Process' Roadshow

663399

Why Helvetica was a bad font choice for Yosemite

Troll Illustrations for Opera

Phone Box Libraries

Spotify Iconset

Playing Cyclist Top Trumps with Marianne Vos

Identity for Mace and Menter

Plangrid Icon for iOS

Ride Stories

Spotify Major Redesign

Icon Design Process - Smashing Conference Oxford 2014

Icon Handbook Site Updates

Discussing icons on BBC Outriders

Bike Cleaning Tip

Phantogram - Voices

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Live in Pittsburgh

Equilibrium

Hand Knitted in Norway

Now it fits me

Peter Capaldi's Dr Who Costume

The Shed

Vans × Yellow Submarine

Why Squarespace logo designer is a good thing

Friday Linkage: Iconfonts, Grunticon and SVG tools

New addition to the stable

2013

Hicks.design's Favourite Music of 2013

Four minutes? That's ages! What if I get bored?

Current Listening: Antiphon by Midlake

The Restoration of Rissington

Bike Dabs

Why I Bike

"Take Regular Dumps"

Bill Calahan sings "Small Plane" in a Serene City

The Day of the Doctor

Guvnor

LifeCraft at Cath Kidston Marlow

App Icon changes in iOS7

Color Emoji in Windows 8.1—The Future of Color Fonts?

Goodbye Camino

Time in the Saddle

Creative Cloud thoughts

Offscreen issue 5 is here!

Broken Spoke Bike Co-op

Offscreen Magazine: Issue 5

British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy

Icon Handbook Easter offer

Detecting compiled CSS changes with Coda 2

Interface Icons for Koken

Pinned Sites in Windows 8

Now there's a job title

The Bird Cage

Starflyer 59 - IAMACEO

Hicks.design's Favourite music of 2012

2012

The truth about HP sauce!

Behind the Sofa

The importance of building a financial buffer

Always wanted drops

Iconsider

Whitelines Link

Scrape

World's first color film footage

PlanGrid Icon

The Doctor Puppet

Asylum of the Daleks

Koken

New Music: I Break Horses

New Logo for Stuff and Nonsense

Tufty Elvis Presley Hicks

Things 2

Doctor Who Series 7

The Orchid - Beyond the vast, endless sea

Ass Saver Review

20% off all Five Simple Steps books!

Updated iOS Application Icon Ai Template

Replacing the back of an iPhone 4

Phantogram - Nightlife

Emoticons - Milton Keynes Geek Night

Morning ride

Ride with tea!

Star Trek Alternate Opening Titles

The first sportive

Dorothy Hicks 1936–2012

Singlespeed Steed

iOS icon corner radii

Come and hear me speak at the inaugural MK Geek Night!

Firefox removes Favicons from the address bar

Good Management is Like The Beatles

Artboard Limit

The Bicycle of A.D 2000!

Englands best known, unknown artist

Zippity

Brother Cycles Road Frame

Tattly Bike Tattoos

Sponsor me in the Circuit of the Cotswolds!

Photographing the Moon

The Inverted Bike Shop

Insights on Symbol Design - The Noun Project

A hamster in a wheel

Export Illustrator Layers and/or Artboards as PNGs and PDFs

Apps of the moment

Craft, Parenting and Cheese with Jon Hicks

Celebrating 10 years of Hicksdesign with The Icon Handbook!

Icon Fonts Follow up

From a previous life, in Victorian London…

McBess Bacon and Cheese Machine

Things I've learnt about cycling in my first year…

2011

Cyclists Special

The Icon Handbook

Available tomorrow!

Higgs-Boson Found!

Displaying Icons with Fonts and Data- Attributes

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your wallets!

Patisserie Cyclisme

It's been quiet around here, but not for much longer…

This is what its all about

Reasons why content doesn't show up on Apple TV

Big Innovation Lives Right on the Edge of Ridiculous Ideas

Microsoft adopt the Open Share Icon

Revolights

ON YER BIKE: Riding into the hearts of people

Safari Omnibar

New Skype Emoticons

Biologic BikeMount for iPhone

Milestones

A Gentleman's Guide to tying a bow tie

Identity for Five Details

Five Details

The Bicycle Cap

The Setup

Removing MLB from the Apple TV 2 menu

A Little Tea Experiment

Project Peugeot

Rapha Films

ATV Flash and Boxee 1.1

How to survive as a colourblind designer

Doctor Who Season 6 Calendar

Polygraph

The Ram

Website, soft scoop edition

epic45 - 'Weathering'

Play your iTunes library remotely over VPN

Truly, it is made of unicorns

Inspector Cumulus

Doctor Who costume t-shirts

Historically Hardcore

Interview for Iconfinder.com

Canine Briar

Cycling, five months on

Announcing The Icon Handbook

London Tweed Run 2011

Hue, Saturation, Lightness

The handbag app that almost was

Fear of Yellow

Happy Cog Hosting

The Indifference Engine

New Bike!

60's Style Doctor Who Posters

Bone-shaker and The Ride

The Globe Daily

2010

2010

Apple TV 2 review

Boxee Box and local content

The Story of Shelf

Shelf Theme for WordPress and Tumblr

Boxee Box Follow-up 1

Quick photo download with the iPhone Dropbox app

Shelf, now in stock!

Boxee Box Review

Boxee 1.0 Interface

Boxee Box UK Pre-orders

What I want other iOS game developers to do

The Boxee Box wins

No 73

Dr Who Fan Posters

Unni Løvlid

App, app and away!

Captio

BBCX365

Ten years of Threadless

Apple TV 2, double take

.net awards 2010

The Viking Song

Apple TV 2

The Orchid - New Mexico EP

Little Big Planet 2

Starflyer 59 - Changing of the Guard

White UFO

Illustrator export artboards as png32

CSS Filters Slides

The start of Shelf!

School of Seven Bells - 'Disconnect from Desire'

Gail's Artisan Bakery Identity

New Goodies!

Beautiful new underground ads that dodge the obvious

Using files for page templates in Textpattern

iOS icon template for Illustrator CS5+

New Logo for Shopify

Daniel's Monsters featured in Booth

Recent Work: Shopify

Drink Tea (for the Love of God!)

Kyle Bobby Dunn - A Young Person's Guide To

Orbital's cover of the Dr Who theme, this time with Matt Smith!

Villagers - "Ship of Promises"

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Daleks

Dr Who: The Big Bang predictions

Finally, a fluid Hicksdesign

LiveView for iPhone and iPad

Comments

CSS Filters

What happens when the Pandorica opens?

Responsive Web Design

Principles of Icon Design

The National

Illustrator CS5 is lovely, but Adobe still needs competitors

Made for Machines, not by them

To Victory!

Phantogram - A Mouthful of Diamonds

Well that went well!

Helvetireader 2

Fireworks alternatives on trial: Acorn, Drawit and Opacity

New Tardis Interior in Series 5

Why the big rush Mr Mandelson?

A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services

Moving on

Zootool

The Handbag has been raised!

Guide to the Internet (2000)

Designer, not a construction worker

Why you can never work 'full time'

Dream Report: Look at the Hygiene!

My Evernote Workflow

Add to Queue in Boxee

The PS3 Hub

Dream Report: Radiohead Puppet Show

Dashnote

Hicksdesign's Ramble through 2009

2009

Loo Copywriting

Opera 10.5 pre-alpha next week

And Mary and Joseph had…

Boxee Box

Netmag article on Icon Design

Icons of the screen icon - Wired UK

The Kraken Media Kit

Using Evernote as a Design Scrapbook

Lettering - a set on Flickr

How to be a Creative Sponge 2

Hicks' Halloween Challenge

Whitelines + Behance Dot Grid Book

Holey Moley! Culture Vulture Interview

Squared

New Dr Who Logo

Shaping the City

Neil Poulton Speakers

A big-assed post about Fireworks

League Gothic

Widescreen hack for Yojimbo 2

Daring Fireball: How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?

Opera Mini 5 beta

Beatles Rock Band - Outro Trailer

History by Typotheque

SVGWeb Brings SVG Support to Internet Explorer

PS3, now with iPlayer support

Helvetical

Yojimbo 2 upgrade

Opera 10 is final!

My World

Sitepoint Interview

Thoughts on the PS3 Media Centre (+ Apple TV)

See Fernando

Icons for Interaction

Unite

Discovery

Daniel's Daily Monster

The Art of Penguin Science Fiction

Skute

TELSTAR THE MOVIE

Little Big Planet Garden Theme

Gameboy Timeline

Swoon

Doctor Who Season 5

Playstation 3 Media Centre

Boxee and Plex

Designing for the Web

Western Digital TV Media Player Review

How the Day Sounds

Yorke

Media Center decision

Tony Hart

Recent Work: FontExplorer Pro

Dr Who in two inches

Popcorn Hour, WD TV or Apple TV?

2008

Dropbox & Leap sitting in a tree

A Merry Christmas from Hicksdesign! (08)

LittleSnapper

More Ideas!

Doctor Who Christmas Radio Times Cover

Here's Helvetireader

Penguin H.G Wells

The House of Books has no Windows

Rissington not dead

Evernote wishes

Geek in the Park talk

Opera users: Your UI feedback is wanted!

First week at Opera

Adding Books to Coda

Stars of the Lid Feature Film

and now… Opera

More Illustrator export scripts

New Starflyer 59: DIAL M

Evernote

Graphic Designer controlled by Computer

Billings 3

Illustrator: exporting layers to PNG

Recent Work: MailChimp

This Thing of Darkness

Capability, not Popularity

Initial thoughts on Google Chrome

Google Chrome

The Dell Hybrid

Listen with Delia

Geneviève Gauckler on CBBC?

Opera Web Standards Curriculum

The Stolen Earth Punditry

Geek in the Park 08

Expression Engine vs Textpattern

Earth not at Risk (apparently)

Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3

Felons

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

Graphics Editor or Text Editor?

Helvetireader - a work in progress

Does this England Exist?

On the playlist: Ladytron - Velocifero

The Detective's Handbook

Steven Moffat to become Who Executive Producer

Installing Summerboard Themes

On the playlist: M83 - Graveyard Girl

Esso Maps

The Poison Sky

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

From Design to Deployment

Camino 1.6

Urgent: I need Icon Designers!

Cabel Sasser: Coda Confidential

Mac Mini Media Centre

Staff Photos

History Flow

Dr Who Season 4

The Portable Funk Machine

Page Borders

Recent Work: Silverback

Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah

Manners Road

Fiddling

There are no slackers in Britain to-day!

Icon Design Explained (Quickly)

Come and hear me 'go on a bit' in 2008

Presumably because you can fit more in?

The wee flies in the iPhone soup

gReader 1.4 - 'The my goodness I almost gave up on this one' release

Custom webclip icon on the iPhone/iPod Touch

My MacWorld Prediction

Quickly add movies to Wii Transfer

Railmobile

2007

Scalehixtric

My 2007 in Blogs, Music, Events and Apps!

iTunes notifications over a network?

Starting again from scratch #1

Yojimbo 1.5 Widescreen

Return of MYOB

What colour is that?

Harry Potter and the Order of Typography

The Two Doctors

The New Banter

Cover art for In Rainbows

Fonts in your Face

gReader 1.3: "Straight outta beta" release

Why I like working where I do #1

Grid Layouts.com

gReader theme in Safari 3

The Rissington Podcast

gReader 1.2: The "Yes, yes, yes, I know they added a search bar" release

How to install the gReader theme

Tally Ho Chaps!

A plea for a decent cuppa

Running a Successful Web Design Business

Google Reader Theme 1.1

Midlake - 'Roscoe'

Change of Face

Not changing something

Recent Work: Miro Identity

Voyage of the Damned

Are these your cakes?

Kestrel

My first Icon Design Workshop

Safari 3 thoughts

Be a Creative Sponge

Camino One Point Five

Recent Work: Mahalo

Recent Work: ReallyWorried.com

Google Reader and Bloglines themes - it's over to you.

Ten

Google Reader Theme 0.9

Doctor Who Season 3 iCal

Google Reader Theme Fixed Again

Google Reader Theme update

Coda

Google Reader Theme

The National - 'Fake Empire'

Oxford Geek Night 2

You can say I love you with Helvetica (and Rest of the World shipping)

Speaking Engagements in 2007

It's going to be a good year for music

An end to Browser pimping?

Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go"

How to setup a Textpattern playlist

The Adventures of Flat Hicks

Horror Head

Truth Magazine tells the truth

The Incredible Book Eating Boy

hReview in Textpattern

Podspeakers Micropod and Dock review

Yojimbo widescreen view hack

Lists of 2006

Five.

The gadget I'm most excited about

The only drawback with the iPhone

2006

For Leigh

Podspeakers

Looking for an iPod speaker with...

Cairo beats Safari?

A Merry Christmas 2006

Vertical Centering with a Shiv Div

Bloglines Skin 1.4.2

Daytrotter

Cromarty and Forth, moderate or good

Bloglines Skin 1.4.1

The 'WE' in Hicksdesign

Bloglines Skin 1.3

PimpMySafari & PimpMyCamino future!

OS X skin for Bloglines

BBC Radio in MediaCentral

For those about to (tie the) knot...

More Microformats Highlighting

Highlight Microformats with CSS

Design is just making things line up

Endings

New Design Blogs

I want to hear from Parallels users

Very quick thoughts on Leopard

Pimped Safari Icon

I need a support group

Logo redesign article in this month's .net

Friday Question: Can you get Great Design on a budget?

Life io at Supernova

A Proposal for a Safari Microformats plugin

Good Design vs Great Design

New Business Cards are here!

iCal schedule for @media

Pelle Carlberg - "Go to hell, Miss Rydell"

Waiting for Songbird to nest on OS X

Web Development with... Safari

Cocoalicious Hack

The National - Secret Meeting

Firefox becomes a contender

Omniweb theme 1.2

Moving navigation solved

Tiger Theme for Omniweb 5.5

Naughty Inuits Provoke Surly Alligators

Bloody Minded

Starflyer 59 - "Wake up Early"

A quick guide to Omniweb 5.5 sp6

New desktop wallpaper

The Very Hush Hush - "Love, Like Love"

I heart people who send me art

Lavender Diamond - "Rise in the Springtime"

Explaining the new logo

The New Logo

Camino, Wordpress, and the liberation of pre-made templates

Gregor Samsa "Three"

Hicksdesign's Found Sounds

Wolf Parade

Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins

5 artists I didn't appreciate when I was growing up...

Big ideas, and then ... no time

SXSW 2006

Origami

What I'm doing at the moment

Browser Polygamy Movement

Camino 1.0!

What have you done Walkers?

Lost

Four

A new home for Aronnax

Mac Media Centre - iTunes Remotes

Happy old man

A meme worth spreading: Just how long can you make your blog post title - is it like very long or long like the long and winding road as sung about by Paul McCartney (he was one of the beatles you know)

Grumpy old man

Four Things

Dream Commission

Mac Media Centre part two - Software

Mac Media Centre part one - hardware

Tell me I haven't lost it...

2005

Happy Christmas to you all!

Come with me on a journey

Time to redesign the logo methinks

Textpattern Notes: New Tag goodness

Riffs, now for Safari too

Keeping score

There goes the "living off a powerbook" theory

Segpub Christmas Cards

Riffs: your social recommender

The new beast

Another use for Apple Care

Flock & Hickr

Waiting for new powerbooks again

Branding with Arial

Textpattern Notes: Comments revisited

Dark alpha PNGs in Safari 2

Center Parcs

Spotlight indexing considered chuffing annoying

Ideal OS X Text Editor?

10 Mac Apps

Do I blog for profit, backhanders or Scotch Eggs* ?

Pimp My Mint

MacUser 20/20 interview

Mighty Mouse

Is 1024 OK?

Browser Survey Results

Now powered by Textpattern 4

OS X Browser Survey 2005

The office is closed on Fridays?

An explanation of colorblindness

Gravatars will be OK!

A list of typography things

This is not, the greatest blog in the world, this is just a tribute

Seven Seven

Just to update you

Using things for other things

Camino 0.9 alpha mini-review

Friday Question: Useful Dashboard Widgets?

Jeremy is right! Tiger underwhelms, except for...

Th@t w@s @media

@media is upon us

Have you found Mace Windu's?

The Story of the Sex Pistols

Textpattern Notes 6: Overriding Forms

Getting Hicks done

A Musical Baton

Rufus Wainwright

Looking for a MYOB replacement

Tiger-r-r-r-r

3D Box Model is now Creative Commons

Tiger style for NetNewsWire

The year of Wool

Textpattern Notes 5 - Release Candidate 3

Webby Awards 2005

The Hicksdesign family album

Basecamp Eureka

Safari tabs for Firefox updated

Flag this photo as 'may offend'

Pimp My Safari: As ready as it will ever be

Where's Durstan?

SXSW: Afterthoughts

SXSW: People

SXSW: Panels

SXSW: Highlight

SXSW: Trying to get my bags back

SXSW: Travel

Not just a 'off to SXSW' post

What's in your menubar?

FTP files from skEdit using Transmit 3

Josh has come to save our Aas.

Oh, that Hampton Inn...

Omniweb wishlist II

2 OS X Questions updated

What do you buy a cheese lover for Valentines Day?

Skinning sites in Safari with PithHelmet

Looking for desk/office space in Oxfordshire

Waiting for new Powerbooks

Hill House - a free font from Hicksdesign

Textile previews in Ecto and MarsEdit

Return of the iPod

Now the party's over, I'm so tired...

2005 Bloggie Awards

What's goin' on

2004

Has Santa moved to Rhode Island?

It just remains for me to say

Hicksdesign theme for Omniweb 5

Spot the difference

Lists of 2004

Dr Comfy Chair (Or how I learned to stop worrying about originality)

Firefox on ABC

I shouldn't be allowed near computers

Survey Results

Survey: What Text Editor do you use?

Blinded by the Northern Lights

Alternative Sage Toolbar Icon

Survey: What app do you use for comps?

Sidebar links with de.licio.us

Firefox of the Day

Ta-daa!!!

Full Metal interface

Optimized Firefox for G5's

Red Channel

The ones that didn't quite make it

The Redesign has landed

John Peel 1939 - 2004

Invasion of the Bandwidth Suckers

Its not quite finished...

Safari style tabs for Firefox OS X

Design in Flight #2: Creating Interface Icons

Help wanted: Creating a browser theme installer

Textmate - first impressions

Sage on OS X

Weekend Cheese Entertainment

NetNewsWire 2

Textpattern notes part 4

Providing CSS for just Internet Explorer

10 questions for me

A quick note on adverts

Go Firefox, Go!

Some Omniweb 5 tricks you might not know

The day has finally come

Autumn Soundtrack

Bare Bones means Comic Sans

Textpattern 2 months on

Sometimes it just works

Newsfire 0.1 beta

Safari grinds to a halt - culprit found

Redesigning is hard to do

Forcing scrollbars (now even better)

Geekend2

New Safari Stand features

Omniweb 5 wishlist

Native (looking) Firefox OS X widgets

Tweaking Firefox with CSS

Firefox desktops updated

IE Whitespace Bug

Extending Safari 3: Stand

Are web sites identical?

Hold the Front Page

The dreams are back too

I'm back

TTFN

Do not return this to me as I do not want it back.

RSS sidebar in Safari

To Samantha

safari sidebar - beta screenshots (updated)

Textpattern Notes Part 3

Textpattern notes Part 2

Textpattern notes Part 1

Daily Check Ritual

OS X Browsers news feed

Shiira section up

Shiira theme

Its finally here.. (or is it?)

Textpattern migration

I fear the iChat

Recycled CSS

Happy Birthday Erik!

Shiira

Safari Replacement buttons

3D CSS Box Model

Move away from MovableType?

Playlist news feed

The winner was

A little browser quandary

Saftari

Actionscript recommendations?

Computer Arts Projects

Thunderbird

Amazon wishlists

Coming soon

Page 23

Norman vs Hicks

I laugh at your spacer gifs

Spring clean, new home

v67 Autofill button

Quicksilver for OS X

Safari menu separators

Extending Safari 2: saft!

Web standards awards

Adobe vs Greenwich Mean Time

Orchard time

Anatomy of an aeroplane

SkinnyJ Interview

Firefox Logo

Edit CSS in Firefox

New Browsers

CSS Vault v2

Digital Camera recommendations?

Playing iPods via iTunes

OmniWeb 5

Link Dump

2003

Live Comment Previews

Happy Christmas!

Extending Safari

Grow some garlic

Darkest Night of the Year

Lists of 2003

InDesign CS

Flip Flop

Highlighting current page with CSS

Ch..ch..changes

Live from Dorset

OS X web tools

G5 and Panther

Beware the CSS Hackers!

Firebird for OS X

IE 5 Mac notes

Multiple versions of IE

Built for the future

Extending php styleswitcher

List

Moveable Type author comment notification

Accessible drop downs

A cup of tea…

New website for Adfam

skEdit

CSS Zen garden #2

I know what I said!

In the dock

Gettin' all strict

Compliant style

Safari and 10.2.8

Skip navigation links

flash and not-so-flash

Mornington Crescent

Happy and Poppy!

No Camino till next year?

Quickies

Skip links update

Skip-navigation solutions

The Entourage experience

A links database with Moveable Type

The Postal Service 'Give Up'

Vertical & horizontal centering 2

Blazing Fruit

CSS rollovers 2 - this time its faster

Currently reading

You've got to hide your styles away!

Image-based rollovers with CSS

Image rollovers with CSS

That looks familiar…

Light & Day

Updates to the Camino theme

It's all about butterflies

Hicksdesign is sexy!

How to: vertical centering with CSS

Welcome the new kid

Camino lives!

We have found a witch! can we burn her?!

“Everybody loves an asshole…”

Site design updated

Hail to the Thief

A warm fuzzy glow

That bloke with the beard and wooly hat

Dream job

New Safari buttons

Png petition

Safari final in June?

Camino buttons

Am I Wrong?

Camino update

New iPods

NetNewsWire

It won’t shake the earth…

2002

Hicks.design is born

1993

The author at the tender age of 20 with shoulder length blonde hair, sitting at a posh drawing board in an attic design studio

Last Day at Brockhole

1988

Sylvester McCoy

1972

Day One

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