Terry Jones MBE (born 2 September 1945) is a British graphic designer, art director, photographer, book- and magazine-editor. He is best known as co-founder of the iconic British, street-style magazine i-D in 1980.

Terry Jones was born on 2 September 1945 in Northampton, England. He was a student of commercial art at West of England College of Art in Bristol, applying to the course after his mother mentioned the West of England College of Art was interviewing for new students. Jones however did not have a portfolio, only a few works, so Jones had "to produce 6 pieces of work that night and they wanted to see 12 and I managed to scrape together 9."

During college Jones was already working on two magazines: Circuit and Hip Hip Bullshit Dip. At college, he began to experiment with silk screens for his layouts and collage works, which cultivated and sparked his life long defining design aesthetic of 'hand graphics' in his work. After his first two-year diploma, he was persuaded by the head of graphics Richard Hollis to continue studies, but soon after he left without a grade in solidarity to Hollis who had resigned due to a lack of support from the school. Hollis suggested Jones should apply to the Royal College of Art, but being reluctant during the interview he wasn't accepted.

Jones then worked as an assistant to the graphic designer Ivan Dodd. Terry states that working for Ivan allowed him to "to learn and experiment" whilst allowing him to "try and give as much knowledge and guidance as I could". This is where Terry had his first initial experiences with commercial magazines, cultivating his own signature design practice through layout and type. He states the reactions from colleagues were often surprised by his design style: " People would freak out! You want to use FIVE typfaces?! I’d say you can only use Univers and then we’d run it through the photocopier and completely distort it. There was what I’d call ‘guest typography’."

Terry then became assistant art director at Good Housekeeping, from 1968 until 1970, and art director for Vanity Fair from 1970 until 1971.

From 1972 until 1977 Terry was the art director for British Vogue. Terry was present at the magazine under the direction of then-editor, Beatrix Miller, stating: "Beatrix Miller was amazing. She let me get away with breaking all sorts of rules – covers, notoriously." One of his most notorious covers was the "Green Jelly one" from February 1977. Created by Terry and Grace Coddington and shot by Willie Christie, the cover was deemed adventurous for the time – even for today. Terry has admitted in an interview with SHOWstudio that the cover was nearly taken off the press, even after it had been approved by Vogue's board at the time (which included Terry Jones, Beatrix Miller and the-then managing director of British Vogue).

In 1977 Jones had commissioned the photographer Steve Johnston for a head-to-toe-portrait series of punk youth on London's King's Road. The series was considered too radical for publication in BritishVogue, so Jones used it for his book Not Another Punk Book (Aurum Press). This kind of documentary approach to fashion photography, then labelled the Straight-up, became one of the trade marks of Terry Jones' own upcoming publication i-D.

Terry Jones worked as a freelancer all over Europe until 1979, as a consultant for the German edition of Vogue, for the magazines Donna, with photographer Oliviero Toscani and Sportswear Europe, for selected issues of Italian Vogue, as well as a creative director for the Italian fashion label, Fiorucci. He also designed and edited books, worked on advertising campaigns, and is credited as graphic designer and photographer on several record covers.