Jon Hicks (designer)
Encyclopedia
Jon Hicks is an English
designer who owns his own design studio, Hicksdesign. Hicks is best known for designing the Firefox
logo, and has worked on numerous other design projects.
in Technical Illustration
for two years followed by a HND
in wildlife illustration for three years. He then worked as a designer at Coventry City Council before going freelance in 2002 setting up Hicksdesign. Hicksdesign became a partnership
in 2007 and a limited company
in 2008.
and Mozilla Thunderbird
logos, has also worked on the Miro, Mahalo.com
and Mail Chimp logos and the Camino
website CaminoBrowser.org. Hicks also created a popular diagram of the CSS Box model
and a widely used trick to counter the "IE
whitespace bug".
In September 2008 he announced that he would work as Senior Designer for Opera Software
, improving the Macintosh
interface for the company's Opera
browser.
In February 2010 he wrote in a blog post that after working on a long term project he got the itch do something different. For that reason he stopped working full-time at Opera and does freelance work again.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
designer who owns his own design studio, Hicksdesign. Hicks is best known for designing the Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...
logo, and has worked on numerous other design projects.
Early life
Hicks left school at 16 and studied a BTEC NDBTEC ND
The BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma is a vocational qualification taken in England and Wales and Northern Ireland by young people aged 16 and over and by adults. The qualification is organised and awarded by the Edexcel Foundation within the BTEC brand...
in Technical Illustration
Technical illustration
Technical Illustration is the use of illustration to visually communicate information of a technical nature. Technical illustrations can be components of technical drawings or diagrams...
for two years followed by a HND
Higher National Diploma
A Higher National Diploma is a higher education qualification in the United Kingdom. This qualification can be used to gain entry into universities, and is considered equivalent to the first or second year of a university degree course....
in wildlife illustration for three years. He then worked as a designer at Coventry City Council before going freelance in 2002 setting up Hicksdesign. Hicksdesign became a partnership
Partnership
A partnership is an arrangement where parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.Since humans are social beings, partnerships between individuals, businesses, interest-based organizations, schools, governments, and varied combinations thereof, have always been and remain commonplace...
in 2007 and a limited company
Limited company
A limited company is a company in which the liability of the members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company. Limited companies may be limited by shares or by guarantee. And the former of these, a limited company limited by shares, may be...
in 2008.
Internet work
Hicks is best known for his work on the Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...
and Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...
logos, has also worked on the Miro, Mahalo.com
Mahalo.com
Mahalo.com is a web directory and Internet-based knowledge exchange launched in alpha test in May 2007 by Jason Calacanis...
and Mail Chimp logos and the Camino
Camino
Camino is a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the Mac OS X operating system...
website CaminoBrowser.org. Hicks also created a popular diagram of the CSS Box model
Internet Explorer box model bug
The Internet Explorer box model bug refers to the way in which earlier versions of Internet Explorer handle the sizing of elements in a web page, which differs from the standard way recommended by the W3C for the Cascading Style Sheets language...
and a widely used trick to counter the "IE
Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...
whitespace bug".
In September 2008 he announced that he would work as Senior Designer for Opera Software
Opera Software
Opera Software ASA is a Norwegian software company, primarily known for its Opera family of web browsers with over 220 million users worldwide. Opera Software is also involved in promoting Web standards through participation in the W3C. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway and is...
, improving the Macintosh
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
interface for the company's Opera
Opera (web browser)
Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent,...
browser.
In February 2010 he wrote in a blog post that after working on a long term project he got the itch do something different. For that reason he stopped working full-time at Opera and does freelance work again.