Our Team

Toby Willaby, Owner
Toby Willaby is a life long Palm Springs resident and a graduate of Palm Springs High School. She acquired ATS Advertising in 1990 originally as a typography resource for the trade. Over the last 20 years, she has expanded the company to include graphic design, corporate identity, political advertising, print and electronic media services. She has extensive knowledge of Mac computer technology and is versatile in all Adobe computer programs. Actively involved in community organizations, she is a CASA volunteer and advocate for young graphic artists breaking into the field.

Phil French, Art Director
Phil French is a writer, artist and art director whose illustrations are in the permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. He has been associated with ATS since 1991. Born in Indiana, he attended Indiana Central College and graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He worked as an illustrator, copy writer and art director in Los Angeles and for Neiman-Marcus in Dallas for many years before coming to the desert, where he was an art director at Palm Springs Life magazine. He has worked with photographers in the desert, as well as New York, Paris and Milan. Most recently he was a features writer for the Press-Enterprise newspaper in Riverside.