Jon Hicks

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

Works on Troika music podcast, and The Supernatural Detective’s Field Guide in his spare time.

Work hard and be nice to people.

Websitehttps://hicks.design
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hicksdesign/
Supernatural Detective’s Field Guidehttps://supernaturaldetectives.com
Discogshttps://www.discogs.com/user/hicksdesign

Looking out my office window, and the Muntjacs are back! Of course it would be perfectly in line with a dirty spot on the glass.

(With a soundtrack of The Besnard Lakes)

Had a Hot Cross Bun bacon and egg sandwich with brown butter. It felt like a good idea, but one to file under “a bit much”

There are two music apps that I'm loving at the moment. Both have nice large album artwork views:

Albums - (@albumstheapp) for playing my Apple Music Library. The new MacOS app ticks most of my criteria!
https://www.albumstheapp.com

Spite - for playing my own digital collection. Lovely minimal streamlined interface!
https://www.jamesreeves.co/spite/

My ideal is basically a combination of these two

Dear God NO

Nice Oxfordshire rarity to show up, even better when its on my local patch! Long-Tailed Duck (oddly missing its long tail). Should be at the coast, if indeed found anywhere in the UK, not in the most land locked county.

(iPhone 17 Pro through spotting scope)

#plumescrolling

We dropped in on the lovely draw! Art Store in Creswell Lane, Glasgow. SO MANY NICE THINGS.
It chose me

Managed to see a pair of Smew that are currently on a local gravel pit. 🙌

(Very poor light, and they could only be glimpsed through a fence + trees, taken with iPhone through spotting scope)

Excellent in-store performance from Kula Shaker at Truck Oxford tonight 🥳
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!
As lang ‘s my arm!