He is the creative director of the eponymous brand "Tom Dixon", specialising in lighting, furniture, and household accessories.

Dixon's collections are shown at events such as the Milan Furniture Fair and the London Design Festival.

Prior to becoming a designer, Dixon was the bass guitarist for the band Funkapolitan, "who toured with Rita and Ziggy Marley, the Clash and Simple Minds", and appeared on Top of the Pops.

[6] Dixon became increasingly well-known in the mid-1980s and was described as "the talented untrained designer with a line in welded salvage furniture".

[11][12] In 1996, Dixon launched a new product line, Eurolounge[8] and became well-known for Jack, a polyethylene "sitting, stacking, lighting thing".

[34] In 2016, Dixon and Revolution Precrafted developed a design for a prefabricated house, aptly named HOME.

[35] In 2017, the first Tom Dixon textile collection was launched, named Super Texture, featuring three sets of cushions.

A third set, Geo, used hand and machine embroidery to create the impression of layered rocks and sediment.