Jeff Willis

InnovationRCA Business Fellow

Jeff Willis is a Senior Tutor in Graphic Design and Deputy Head of the Department of Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art.

Jeff studied graphic design at Norwich School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1984 when he joined Minale Tattersfield and Partners as a senior designer. He remains active as a graphic designer having formed a design partnership in 1990 with his wife who graduated with him from the RCA. Perks Willis Design operates as a design consultancy to cultural institutions, corporate clients and educational establishments.

Jeff is a member of Design and Art Direction, the International Society of Typographic Designers, the Sign Design Society and the Higher Education Academy. His design practice has achieved a profile for working with museums and socially motivated organisations such as English Heritage Outreach. His practice has produced three major exhibitions in the Natural History Museum since 1999.