14 Facts About Brett Wickens

Brett Wickens is a partner with the Ammunition Design Group, and lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Brett Wickens worked with British graphic designer Peter Saville as a partner in his London studio during the 1980s and 90s, where they developed campaigns for clients such as Yohji Yamamoto, Factory Records, Peter Gabriel and the French Ministry of Culture.

Brett Wickens was involved in the creation of the artwork for Gabriel's So, which, according to Creative Review, is "widely regarded as a design classic".

In 1993 Brett Wickens moved to Los Angeles to become VP Creative Director at Frankfurt Balkind Partners.

In 1999, Brett Wickens became the Global Creative Director of Sapient before joining MetaDesign as VP Creative Director in 2002.

Brett Wickens was a founding partner of DreamSurface, a mobile application design company best known for the product TimeTuner.

Brett Wickens subsequently became a partner with the Ammunition Design Group.

Brett Wickens has been a guest speaker on NPR, contributing editor at EYE magazine, teacher at the California Institute of the Arts, and speaker at many symposia, including the RGD Design Thinkers Conference 2008 in Toronto, and the Creative Review Click Conference 2010 in San Francisco.

Brett Wickens was awarded in 2016 the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.

Brett Wickens was a founding member of the band Spoons, playing keyboards.

Brett Wickens appeared on the group's debut single, "After the Institution", released on then-manager Paul Abrahams' Mannequin Records.

Brett Wickens subsequently left Spoons and joined with classically-trained musician Roger Humphreys to form the duo Ceramic Hello.

Elsewhere, Brett Wickens has composed with William Orbit, Jah Wobble, Andy McCluskey and Martha Ladly, among others.

Brett Wickens is married to Coralie Langston-Jones and together they have twins, Jasmine and Sophia.