Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 26/09/2026A lovely warm sunny afternoon at Farmoor Reservoir, with really close views of Little Stint and Ringed Plover = the best photos I've managed to take with an iPhone through my scope. 1130
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 21/09/2026Quite relieved with Mac/iOS27's design changes. Feels a much more mature approach than 26, especially on Mac. Not just transparency - things like the shiny highlights being top/bottom, rather than opposite corners (where they made icons look lopsided). Some elements looking a bit…dare I say… Aqua? 131
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 19/09/2026Tidal have finally raised their collection max limit from 10k to 20k. That was my big deal breaker with the service - 20k is still an arbitrary limit, but its a better limit 010
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 26/08/2026I appear to have put cumin, instead of cinnamon, in my overnight oats. 390
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 21/08/2026Wilco are always a great live experience, but last at the Hammersmith Apollo was particularly special. Maybe it was the choice of songs (a lot of favourites from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot), the view (decently close for once) or even that the audience were up for it (and not talking!). 0110
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 05/08/2026This was left in our garden tonight - I've somehow managed to resist having a go (strong suspicion it's alarmed) 580
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 29/07/2026And finally, some cultural diversity on TitCam™. #ebonyandivory 000
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 29/07/2026The other newcomer to TitCam™ is this juvenile Robin - getting less scruffy every day 010
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 29/07/2026For a long time we've just had Pigeons and Blue Tits on TitCam™, but the other day, we had this handsome Starling. Today it brought the whole rowdy family 020
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 19/06/2026Just seen a man talking his barbecue for a walk - in this heat do try and walk your barbecues earlier in the day as the hot pavements are bad for their feet 3213
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 05/06/2026Excellent, I didn't know @last.fm Could do this! This is my last month… 140
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 03/06/2026My older brother (on the right) just sent me this photo of us, taken in Victoria Park, Leamington Spa in the early 70s. The way he's dressed, it could be now, or any time over the last 50 years. The way I'm dressed, I was going to say no, but on second thoughts. My hair shone always like a curly be 270
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 29/05/2026I’ve changed the way I work on these. I still use Adobe Fresco to create the final vector version (it’s still the only tool with proper vector painting capabilities), but I use @iconfactory.com Linea Sketch for the sketch phase. It’s _so_ much quicker to get basic ideas down and refine them. 060
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 22/05/2026One more for the list, from when I found out what the Old English word for a Kestrel was. (The band I used are real, can't remember who they were though) 040
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 15/05/2026Found Pistachio mini magnums in the supermarket, which had made my heart go all fluffery buffery. 0100
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 12/05/2026Waitrose Scotch Egg Sandwich 🥪 4/5 🥪 Crumbled Scotch Egg, egg mayo, chilli relish & spinach on multiseed bread. Better than expected! The relish makes it work, and the bread is tasty and soft. The same ratio of ingredients, just more of them, would be a 5! 😍 #TVMarketingTieInSandwichReview 280
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 10/05/2026Haven’t been well enough to go birding, so spent the afternoon getting back in the groove of a new illustration for the Supernatural Detectives Field Guide. Time has been against me in this project, no updates in almost a year, but still plodding on. Feels more important to me than ever… 180
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 07/05/2026This is such a beautiful album, and this track in particular Friday Afternoon from Philadelphia by Shabason, Krgovich & Harris album.link/i/1599546200 020
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 04/05/2026To celebrate the launch of Chase Bliss’ new guitar pedal “Big Time”, my mate Doug Tolley is touring the South of England to demonstrate and play at ruins, beaches and pubs. I got the pleasure of making the poster to promote it: 040
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 15/04/2026I got the @sisterraydavies.bsky.social remixes 10” and it came with a Florida style “Greetings from Holy Island” postcard 😂 041
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 01/04/2026My March in music, courtesy of Albums app. Blackwater Holylight’s ‘Not Here Not Gone’ got a lot of plays in this month… 020
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 28/03/2026Wife used “find my phone” to get my attention in Covent Garden. Nice that you get an email notification too 000
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 27/03/2026Yesterday, Paul McCartney announced a new album “The Boys of Dungeon Lane”, named after where he played as a kid. In a brilliant piece of marketing, he’s inserted himself into Street View, stealing the street sign and running off with it! maps.app.goo.gl/WAGbbU9ubCuS... 1312829
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 25/03/2026Back on my music app criteria shtick again - in Tahoe 26.4, Apple Music has gained a (kind of) immersive view. Could be bigger tho. 110
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 19/03/2026A great night out to see Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan! @warringtonruncorn.com. The live sound was really bassy and heavy, and the hypnotic visuals of 70s/80s films felt like time travel. 0192
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 17/03/2026Looking 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) 031
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 08/03/2026Had 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” 2170
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 26/02/2026There are two music apps that I'm loving at the moment, with large album artwork: Albums - for playing my Apple Music Library. The new MacOS app ticks most of my criteria! www.albumstheapp.com Spite - for playing my own digital collection. Lovely streamlined interface! www.jamesreeves.co/spite/ 391
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 24/02/2026Nice 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. #plumescrolling 030
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 21/02/2026We dropped in on the lovely draw! Art Store in Creswell Lane, Glasgow. SO MANY NICE THINGS. 000
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 07/02/2026Managed to see a pair of Smew that are currently on a local gravel pit. 🙌 (Taken in really poor light with an iPhone on a spotting scope, through a fence + trees) 120
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 27/01/2026Excellent in-store performance from Kula Shaker at Truck Oxford tonight 🥳 040
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 22/01/2026Would love Apple Music to make more of the Friends features. I use the “Friends are playing…” carousel a lot, but the whole system of finding and following people is rather hidden away. Having said that, I recently found the Friends Playlist, which even shows you who the source of each track is 🙌 791
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 11/01/2026Post a picture of the venue where you attended your first concert and the band... 140
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 22/12/2025Edge Eatery Witney: The Frank Clause 🥪 A sausage patty, crispy bacon, melted Emmental, cranberry sauce, marmite mayo, fried egg, and crispy sage, on an English muffin with hash browns on the side ❄︎ 5/5 🙌 (See alt description for review) #festivesandwichreviews #festivesandwichreviews2025 280
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 18/12/2025My top albums of the year go to: 1. The Besnard Lakes are the Ghost Nation by The Besnard Lakes @fulltimehobby.bsky.social 2. Swallow by Steve Queralt @stevequeralt.bsky.social & by@soniccathedral.bsky.social 3. Landscape from Memory by Rival Consoles @erasedtapes.com 130
Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 11/12/2025Waitrose Christmas Roast Chicken with all the Trimmings Wrap 🥪 A tortilla wrap with roast chicken, roasted carrot, parsnip and brussels sprouts, sage & black pepper mayo, cranberry & redcurrant chutney, lettuce. ❄︎ 2/5 (See alt desc for review) #festivesandwichreviews #festivesandwichreviews2025 220