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August 2010

10The Orchid - New Mexico EP

06Little Big Planet 2

03Starflyer 59 - Changing of the Guard

July 2010

23White UFO

22Illustrator export artboards as png32

22CSS Filters Slides

15A new Ninja for Woo Themes!

15The start of Shelf!

14School of Seven Bells - 'Disconnect from Desire'

13Gail's Artisan Bakery Identity

08New Goodies!

08Beautiful new underground ads that dodge the obvious

07Using files for page templates in Textpattern

05iOS icon template for Illustrator CS5

04Dr Who in Springfield

June 2010

30Daniel's Monsters featured in Booth

30Recent Work: Shopify

29Drink Tea (for the Love of God!)

28Kyle Bobby Dunn - A Young Person's Guide To

28Orbital's cover of the Dr Who theme, this time with Matt Smith!

27Villagers - "Ship of Promises"

23The Hitchhikers Guide to the Daleks

23Dr Who: The Big Bang predictions

22Finally, a fluid Hicksdesign

17LiveView for iPhone and iPad

16Comments

15CSS Filters

07What happens when the Pandorica opens?

May 2010

25Responsive Web Design

24Principles of Icon Design

10The National

05Illustrator CS5 is lovely, but Adobe still needs competitors

01Made for Machines, not by them

April 2010

14To Victory!

06Phantogram - A Mouthful of Diamonds

04Well that went well!

March 2010

31Helvetireader 2

22Fireworks alternatives on trial: Acorn, Drawit and Opacity

19New Tardis Interior in Series 5

16Why the big rush Mr Mandelson?

February 2010

17A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services

17Moving on

11Zootool

January 2010

26The Handbag has been raised!

22Guide to the Internet (2000)

20Designer, not a construction worker

19Why you can never work 'full time'

16Dream Report: Look at the Hygiene!

14My Evernote Workflow

14Add to Queue in Boxee

13The PS3 Hub

08Dream Report: Radiohead Puppet Show

06Dashnote

03Hicksdesign's Ramble through 2009

December 2009

30Loo Copywriting

17Opera 10.5 pre-alpha next week

14And Mary and Joseph had…

12Boxee Box

November 2009

25Netmag article on Icon Design

06Icons of the screen icon - Wired UK

03The Kraken Media Kit

October 2009

30Using Evernote as a Design Scrapbook

26Lettering - a set on Flickr

24How to be a Creative Sponge 2

22Hicks' Halloween Challenge

18Whitelines + Behance Dot Grid Book

17Marshall Alexander - Paper Engineer

17Holey Moley! Culture Vulture Interview

13Squared

06New Dr Who Logo

04Shaping the City

02Neil Poulton Speakers

01A big-assed post about Fireworks

September 2009

23League Gothic

20Widescreen hack for Yojimbo 2

18Daring Fireball: How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?

16Opera Mini 5 beta

16Fluid style for SimpleNote

13Beatles Rock Band - Outro Trailer

08History by Typotheque

07Focus on Textpattern 4.2.0

04SVGWeb Brings SVG Support to Internet Explorer

02PS3, now with iPlayer support

02Helvetical

01Yojimbo 2 upgrade

01Opera 10 is final!

August 2009

06My World

02Sitepoint Interview

July 2009

25Thoughts on the PS3 Media Centre (+ Apple TV)

09See Fernando

June 2009

29Icons for Interaction

16Unite

10Discovery

05Daniel's Daily Monster

May 2009

06The Art of Penguin Science Fiction

06Skute

01TELSTAR THE MOVIE

April 2009

30Little Big Planet Garden Theme

24Gameboy Timeline

16Swoon

March 2009

26Doctor Who Season 5

February 2009

15Playstation 3 Media Centre

09Boxee and Plex

01Designing for the Web

January 2009

23Western Digital TV Media Player Review

22How the Day Sounds

19Yorke

18Media Center decision

18Tony Hart

09Recent Work: FontExplorer Pro

05Dr Who in two inches

December 2008

31Popcorn Hour, WD TV or Apple TV?

30Dropbox & Leap sitting in a tree

22A Merry Christmas from Hicksdesign! (08)

12LittleSnapper

November 2008

29More Ideas!

29Doctor Who Christmas Radio Times Cover

26Here's Helvetireader

25Penguin H.G Wells

24The House of Books has no Windows

24Rissington not dead

19Evernote wishes

12Geek in the Park talk

11Opera users: Your UI feedback is wanted!

11First week at Opera

10Adding Books to Coda

October 2008

21Stars of the Lid Feature Film

09and now… Opera

06More Illustrator export scripts

04New Starflyer 59: DIAL M

September 2008

29Evernote

20Graphic Designer controlled by Computer

19Billings 3

17Illustrator: exporting layers to PNG

15Recent Work: MailChimp

14This Thing of Darkness

10Capability, not Popularity

03Initial thoughts on Google Chrome

02Google Chrome

July 2008

29The Dell Hybrid

18Listen with Delia

13Geneviève Gauckler on CBBC?

10Opera Web Standards Curriculum

June 2008

30The Stolen Earth Punditry

26Geek in the Park 08

24Expression Engine vs Textpattern

23Earth not at Risk (apparently)

19Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3

16Felons

15Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

05Graphics Editor or Text Editor?

05Helvetireader - a work in progress

May 2008

29Does this England Exist?

27On the playlist: Ladytron - Velocifero

25The Detective's Handbook

20Steven Moffat to become Who Executive Producer

16Installing Summerboard Themes

15On the playlist: M83 - Graveyard Girl

12Esso Maps

10The Poison Sky

04Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

April 2008

20From Design to Deployment

20Camino 1.6

09Urgent: I need Icon Designers!

02Cabel Sasser: Coda Confidential

March 2008

31Mac Mini Media Centre

25Staff Photos

23History Flow

21Dr Who Season 4

15The Portable Funk Machine

04Page Borders

February 2008

28Recent Work: Silverback

27Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah

26Manners Road

25Fiddling

21There are no slackers in Britain to-day!

07Icon Design Explained (Quickly)

January 2008

31Come and hear me 'go on a bit' in 2008

25Presumably because you can fit more in?

21The wee flies in the iPhone soup

16gReader 1.4 - 'The my goodness I almost gave up on this one' release

16Custom webclip icon on the iPhone/iPod Touch

15My MacWorld Prediction

11Quickly add movies to Wii Transfer

11Railmobile

December 2007

20Scalehixtric

19My 2007 in Blogs, Music, Events and Apps!

13iTunes notifications over a network?

08Starting again from scratch #1

07Yojimbo 1.5 Widescreen

05gReader 1.31

05Return of MYOB

November 2007

20What colour is that?

18Harry Potter and the Order of Typography

16The Two Doctors

October 2007

31The New Banter

10Cover art for In Rainbows

04Fonts in your Face

September 2007

28gReader 1.3: "Straight outta beta" release

26Why I like working where I do #1

25Grid Layouts.com

15gReader theme in Safari 3

14The Rissington Podcast

10gReader 1.2: The "Yes, yes, yes, I know they added a search bar" release

08Yes, yes, yes I know the Google Reader theme is broken

August 2007

31How to install the gReader theme

27Tally Ho Chaps!

26A plea for a decent cuppa

25 Running a Successful Web Design Business

16Google Reader Theme 1.1

14Midlake - 'Roscoe'

13Change of Face

11Not changing something

July 2007

18Recent Work: Miro Identity

02Voyage of the Damned

June 2007

27Are these your cakes?

23Kestrel

17My first Icon Design Workshop

11Safari 3 thoughts

09Be a Creative Sponge

05Camino One Point Five

01Recent Work: Mahalo

01Recent Work: ReallyWorried.com

May 2007

29Google Reader and Bloglines themes - it's over to you.

26Ten

13Google Reader Theme 0.9

09Doctor Who Season 3 iCal

02Google Reader Theme Fixed Again

02Google Reader broken already

April 2007

28Google Reader Theme update

23Coda

17Google Reader Theme

13The National - 'Fake Empire'

12Oxford Geek Night 2

06You can say I love you with Helvetica (and Rest of the World shipping)

01Speaking Engagements in 2007

March 2007

30It's going to be a good year for music

23An end to Browser pimping?

22Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go"

17How to setup a Textpattern playlist

09The Adventures of Flat Hicks

08Horror Head

February 2007

06Truth Magazine tells the truth

01The Incredible Book Eating Boy

January 2007

22hReview in Textpattern

19Podspeakers Micropod and Dock review

17Yojimbo widescreen view hack

15Lists of 2006

11Five.

11The gadget I'm most excited about

09The only drawback with the iPhone

December 2006

20For Leigh

18Podspeakers

13Looking for an iPod speaker with...

10Cairo beats Safari?

08A Merry Christmas 2006

November 2006

30Vertical Centering with a Shiv Div

17Bloglines Skin 1.4.2

08Daytrotter

October 2006

31Cromarty and Forth, moderate or good

22Bloglines Skin 1.4.1

16The 'WE' in Hicksdesign

15Bloglines Skin 1.3

12PimpMySafari & PimpMyCamino future!

10OS X skin for Bloglines

09BBC Radio in MediaCentral

07For those about to (tie the) knot...

September 2006

24More Microformats Highlighting

14Highlight Microformats with CSS

13Design is just making things line up

05Endings

August 2006

16New Design Blogs

12I want to hear from Parallels users

07Very quick thoughts on Leopard

July 2006

27Pimped Safari Icon

10I need a support group

June 2006

30Logo redesign article in this month's .net

23Friday Question: Can you get Great Design on a budget?

22Life io at Supernova

20A Proposal for a Safari Microformats plugin

18Good Design vs Great Design

09New Business Cards are here!

08iCal schedule for @media

07Pelle Carlberg - "Go to hell, Miss Rydell"

01Waiting for Songbird to nest on OS X

May 2006

31Web Development with... Safari

24Cocoalicious Hack

15The National - Secret Meeting

14Firefox becomes a contender

08Omniweb theme 1.2

03Moving navigation solved

03Tiger Theme for Omniweb 5.5

01Naughty Inuits Provoke Surly Alligators

01Bloody Minded

April 2006

27Starflyer 59 - "Wake up Early"

26A quick guide to Omniweb 5.5 sp6

26New desktop wallpaper

25The Very Hush Hush - "Love, Like Love"

20I heart people who send me art

11Lavender Diamond - "Rise in the Springtime"

09Explaining the new logo

06The New Logo

05Terrible Nakedness

04Camino, Wordpress, and the liberation of pre-made templates

04Gregor Samsa "Three"

March 2006

30Hicksdesign's Found Sounds

30Wolf Parade

29Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins

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

23Big ideas, and then ... no time

20SXSW 2006

04Origami

03What I'm doing at the moment

February 2006

15Browser Polygamy Movement

14Camino 1.0!

14What have you done Walkers?

10Lost

08Four

06A new home for Aronnax

04Mac Media Centre - iTunes Remotes

January 2006

31Happy old man

30A meme worth spreading: Just how long can you make your blog post title - is it like very long or is it like really really really really really really long like the long and winding road as sung about by Paul McCartney (he was one of the beatles you know)

26Grumpy old man

24Four Things

15Dream Commission

14Mac Media Centre part two - Software

13Mac Media Centre part one - hardware

02Tell me I haven't lost it...

December 2005

23Happy Christmas to you all!

17Come with me on a journey

13Time to redesign the logo methinks

02Textpattern Notes: New Tag goodness

November 2005

30Riffs, now for Safari too

26Keeping score

23There goes the "living off a powerbook" theory

22Segpub Christmas Cards

18Riffs: your social recommender

11The new beast

10Another use for Apple Care

08Flock & Hickr

October 2005

12Waiting for new powerbooks again

05Branding with Arial

04Textpattern Notes: Comments revisited

September 2005

27Dark alpha PNGs in Safari 2

26Center Parcs

13Spotlight indexing considered chuffing annoying

11Ideal OS X Text Editor?

0810 Mac Apps

04Do I blog for profit, backhanders or Scotch Eggs* ?

02Pimp My Mint

02MacUser 20/20 interview

August 2005

31Mighty Mouse

25Is 1024 OK?

21Browser Survey Results

16RSS Feed problems

14Now powered by Textpattern 4

13OS X Browser Survey 2005

09The office is closed on Fridays?

July 2005

22An explanation of colorblindness

20Gravatars will be OK!

14A list of typography things

12This is not, the greatest blog in the world, this is just a tribute

07Seven Seven

07Just to update you

June 2005

30Using things for other things

29Camino 0.9 alpha mini-review

24Friday Question: Useful Dashboard Widgets?

18Jeremy is right! Tiger underwhelms, except for...

15Th@t w@s @media

08@media is upon us

05Have you found Mace Windu's?

May 2005

31The Story of the Sex Pistols

25Textpattern Notes 6: Overriding Forms

19Getting Hicks done

16A Musical Baton

14Rufus Wainwright

12Looking for a MYOB replacement

02Tiger-r-r-r-r

April 2005

253D Box Model is now Creative Commons

18Tiger style for NetNewsWire

18The year of Wool

16Textpattern Notes 5 - Release Candidate 3

12Webby Awards 2005

11The Hicksdesign family album

09Basecamp Eureka

March 2005

31Safari tabs for Firefox updated

28Flag this photo as 'may offend'

22Pimp My Safari: As ready as it will ever be

20Where's Durstan?

18SXSW: Afterthoughts

18SXSW: People

18SXSW: Panels

18SXSW: Highlight

18SXSW: Trying to get my bags back

18SXSW: Travel

10Not just a 'off to SXSW' post

03What's in your menubar?

03FTP files from skEdit using Transmit 3

February 2005

27Josh has come to save our Aas.

25Oh, _that_ Hampton Inn...

18Omniweb wishlist II

172 OS X Questions updated

16What do you buy a cheese lover for Valentines Day?

09Skinning sites in Safari with PithHelmet

05Looking for desk/office space in Oxfordshire

January 2005

29Waiting for new Powerbooks

26Textile previews in Ecto and MarsEdit

26Return of the iPod

24Now the party's over, I'm so tired...

242005 Bloggie Awards

17What's goin' on

December 2004

24Has Santa moved to Rhode Island?

22It just remains for me to say

21Hicksdesign theme for Omniweb 5

16Spot the difference

14Lists of 2004

10Please refresh your browser

08Dr Comfy Chair (Or how I learned to stop worrying about originality)

07Firefox on ABC

06I shouldn't be allowed near computers

03Survey Results

November 2004

24Survey: What Text Editor do you use?

24Blinded by the Northern Lights

18Alternative Sage Toolbar Icon

18Survey: What app do you use for comps?

17Sidebar links with de.licio.us

16Firefox of the Day

11Ta-daa!!!

10Full Metal interface

08Optimized Firefox for G5's

05Red Channel

October 2004

28The ones that didn't quite make it

26The Redesign has landed

26John Peel 1939 - 2004

20Invasion of the Bandwidth Suckers

17Its not quite finished...

10Safari style tabs for Firefox OS X

08Design in Flight #2: Creating Interface Icons

06Help wanted: Creating a browser theme installer

06Textmate - first impressions

September 2004

29Sage on OS X

25Weekend Cheese Entertainment

22NetNewsWire 2

20Textpattern notes part 4

20Providing CSS for just Internet Explorer

1910 questions for me

17A quick note on adverts

16Go Firefox, Go!

09Some Omniweb 5 tricks you might not know

06the day has finally come

01Autumn Soundtrack

August 2004

31Bare Bones means Comic Sans

29Textpattern 2 months on

27Sometimes it just works

25Newsfire 0.1 beta

23Safari grinds to a halt - culprit found

18Redesigning is hard to do

17Forcing scrollbars (now even better)

16Geekend2

12New Safari Stand features

12Omniweb 5 wishlist

10Native (looking) Firefox OS X widgets

10Tweaking Firefox with CSS

05Firefox desktops updated

03CSS & XHTML Designer needed in Canterbury

02IE Whitespace Bug

July 2004

28Extending Safari 3: Stand

27Are web sites identical?

27Hold the Front Page

26The dreams are back too

25I'm back

08TTFN

07Do not return this to me as I do not want it back.

03RSS sidebar in Safari

01To Samantha

June 2004

26safari sidebar - beta screenshots (updated)

24Textpattern Notes Part 3

23Textpattern notes Part 2

22Textpattern notes Part 1

21Daily Check Ritual

20OS X Browsers news feed

18Shiira section up

15Its finally here.. (or is it?)

14Textpattern migration

12I fear the iChat

07Recycled CSS

May 2004

30Happy Birthday Erik!

30Shiira

203D CSS Box Model

15Move away from MovableType?

13playlist news feed

10the winner was

06a little browser quandary

April 2004

27Saftari

24Actionscript recommendations?

23Computer Arts Projects

20Thunderbird

18Amazon wishlists

15coming soon

15Page 23

09Norman vs Hicks

06I laugh at your spacer gifs

03spring clean, new home

March 2004

25Quicksilver for OS X

11Safari menu separators

07extending Safari 2: saft!

03web standards awards

01Adobe vs Greenwich Mean Time

February 2004

29orchard time

20Anatomy of an aeroplane

12SkinnyJ Interview

08branding firefox

05Edit CSS in Firefox

03New Browsers

January 2004

19yuk

19CSS Vault v2

15Digital Camera recommendations?

08Playing iPods via iTunes

03OmniWeb 5

02Link Dump

December 2003

30Live Comment Previews

23Happy Christmas!

18Extending Safari

16grow some garlic

11Darkest Night of the Year

11lists of 2003

03InDesign CS

01Flip Flop

November 2003

29yay or nay?

25Highlighting current page

25Highlighting current page with CSS

20ch..ch..changes

17Live from Dorset

14OS X web tools

12G5 and Panther

12Beware the CSS Hackers!

11Firebird for OS X

07IE 5 Mac notes

06multiple versions of IE

05testers wanted

04built for the future

October 2003

27Adobe Event Edinburgh

23comment spam

22php snippet

22List

17MT author comment notification

14accessible drop downs

14a cup of tea…

12new adfam websites

08skEdit

06zen garden #2

02I know what I said!

01In the dock

01gettin' all strict

September 2003

26Compliant style

26safari and 10.2.8

23skip navigation links

22flash and not-so-flash

20Mornington Crescent

20Happy and Poppy!

18No Camino till next year?

17quickies

13skip links update

10skip navigation solutions

08the entourage experience

04a links database with MT

03The Postal Service 'Give Up'

01vertical & horizontal centering 2

01Blazing Fruit

August 2003

25CSS rollovers 2 - this time its faster

14currently reading

11You've got to hide your styles away!

11Image-based rollovers with CSS

10Image rollovers with CSS

07That looks familiar…

05light & Day

July 2003

28updates to the camino theme

24Its all about butterflies

18hicksdesign is sexy!

18How to: vertical centering with CSS

15welcome the new kid

10camino lives!

10we have found a witch! can we burn her?!

03new camino metal theme!

June 2003

25“Everybody loves an asshole…”

25site design updated

12hail to the thief

12a warm fuzzy glow

02that bloke with the beard and wooly hat

May 2003

28dream job

27new safari buttons

22png petition

22Safari final in June?

22camino buttons

15am i wrong?

15Camino update

April 2003

28New iPods

25NetNewsWire

25it won’t shake the earth…

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