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One dog, two tails, half Mike, half Sian.
Mike and Sian- a design and art duo from Manchester
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collaboration with industry to create a fluid and challenging
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learning journey. Clients have included the BBC, EY,
Unilever & Adidas. A project with the UN developed into a
larger brief with two of the students pitching to the UN & at
SxSW. Tash also has spoken all over the globe at events
such as Octoberfest Munich, TedX Manchester, Creative
Mornings Gothenburg & for HEC in San Francisco.
Parallel to disrupting design education, she 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.
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Acrylic on 350gsm
420 x 594
Prints:
297 x 420
Email: hello@mikesian.studio
Her popular daily typographic project, ‘Mundaneaday’ Phone: 07715 695 555
is now it its seventh year, and its demand has expandedWeb: //mikesianstudio.bigcartel.com/
her portfolio to include the commission of large scale Insta: @mikesian.studio
hand-lettered murals in studios around UK. Tash’s latest
venture is Design Education, she has teamed up with the
mighty Jenny Theolin to create a community, inviting all
formal and informal teachers within the design industry with
the intention to co-create a safe space to swap and share
knowledge, experiences, research, ideas and insights –
with the aim to improve the conditions for learning design
at school, university and at work.
Email: hello@mikesian.studio
www.instagram.com/tashwillcocks/
Phone: 07715
695 555
Instagram:
@tashwillcocks
Web: //mikesianstudio.bigcartel.com/
New adventure starting soon as Head of Learning Design
Twitter:
@tashwillcocks
Insta: @mikesian.studio
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