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David Carter is an industrial designer who has been active in the field since the 1950s. He is best known for his work on the iconic British telephone box, which he designed in 1965. He has also designed a range of other products, including furniture, lighting, and medical equipment.
Carter was born in Leicester, England, on 30 December 1927. He studied at the Leicester College of Art and Design, and then at the Royal College of Art in London. After graduating, he worked for the design firm of Gordon Russell Ltd.
In 1965, Carter was commissioned by the General Post Office to design a new telephone box. His design, which featured a red and white colour scheme, became an iconic symbol of British culture.
Carter has also designed a range of other products, including furniture, lighting, and medical equipment. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Royal Society of Arts' Designers of the Year Award in 1971.
Carter is now retired, but his work continues to be appreciated and admired. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester.
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Leicester, England |
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November 16, 2020 |
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His wife is Theo Carter
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His family split time between a house in the Cotswolds and a cottage on the coast at Tralong in County Cork. He died of complications from dementia on 16 November 2020, aged 92. He married Theo Towers in 1953, an artist who became a freelance fashion illustrator for Vogue. Theo died in 2013 and Carter was survived by their children: Steven, a copywriter; Jonathan, an architect; Jane, who is marketing director of Disney in Paris, and her twin, Helen, a HR manager for the National Health Service.
Under Carter's continued leadership the David Carter Associates became DCA Design Consultants in 1975 and later renamed itself as DCA Design in 1986. He retired from DCA in 1992, though the company continues to trade to this day from its traditional home and headquarters on Church Street, Warwick in the UK. Also he continued to teach at the Royal College of Art.
Carter was president of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers during 1974–75, was appointed Royal Designer for Industry in 1974, from 1972 to 1984 he was deputy chairman of the Design Council and was a trustee of the Conran Boilerhouse Foundation, chairman of the Design Museum and chairman of the Royal Society of Arts Design Board in 1983. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1980.
In 1970, when household telephones were supplied exclusively by the Post Office, he was commissioned to design a new rotary-dial model that would sit on a table or shelf, or be mounted on the wall. "We were asked to make this telephone cheaper to produce than the existing model," he told The Times.
He trained at the Leicester College of Art (now DeMontfort University), simultaneously spending a good part of 2 years in an engineering works. He served in the Navy. Demobbed in 1948 he returned to full-time study in the industrial design (engineering) department of the Central School of Art and Design. He went on to a variety of industrial design positions and then in 1960 he set up on his own as a consultant, going on to employ a growing team of engineers, designers, model-makers and assistants as David Carter Associates.
Ronald David Carter CBE FRSA RDI (30 December 1927 – 16 November 2020) was a British designer known for projects like the Stanley knife and Le Shuttle, which carries vehicles under the Channel.
