Tash Willcocks (Ripple Across the UK)

Tash has spent over 20 years shaping future change-makers in the creative industry. Previously as Programme Leader of the BA and MA Graphic Design course at Salford University, then as Director of Masters Europe at Hyper Island. Her most recent role as Head of Learning Design at SNOOK is promoting understanding of the impact of Design within Industry.

Parallel to disrupting design education, Tash has acted as an album creative for the band Elbow, carried out Skateboard design collaborations with Linder Sterling and has her own branded Meitu phone released in China. Her popular daily typographic project, ‘Mundaneaday’ is now it its seventh year, and includes large scale hand-lettered murals in studios around UK. Tash has also teamed up with the mighty Jenny Theolin for the creative venture Design Education. This is a safe space for all formal and informal teachers within the design industry to swap and share knowledge, experiences, research, ideas and insights.

On a rocky terrain, at the intersection of emotional ballad and experimental pop, lies Mantaraybryn. Shifting between lyrics of vulnerability and strength, Mantaraybryn invites us into his songs, merging quiet honest poems with heaving dancefloor energy that leaves listeners bewitched.

Taking inspiration from history, nature, and literature, the end result sees Mantaraybryn as the missing link between Florence and the Machine, Caribou, and Foals. Often delicate and minimal, only to switch to an undiminished roar, Mantaraybryn’s vocals and lyrics are what set him apart.

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