It’s been more than 20 years since Tash Willcocks dipped her toe into the creative and design industry.
In that time she’s been an album creative for Elbow, designed skateboards with Linder Sterling, and was MA Communication Design Programme Leader at Salford University. Since 2013 she led design programmes at Hyper Island, helping students worldwide to discover new skills in digital management and digital experience design, becoming Director of Masters Europe in 2017. In 2020 was made the the first Honorary Fellow, as she left Hyper Island to form Snook “a design studio built to make the world more human”.

PastPresentFuture was devised with a simple premise: contributing designers were asked three questions. First, can you remember the first piece of graphic design you saw, when and where was this? Second, what are you working on right now, and third, do you have any advice for today’s graphic design students?