David Carter (industrial designer)

David Carter (industrial designer)

David Carter, CBE, (born in Leicester, 1927) is an industrial designer and educator. Carter is a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Design Council, the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers and the Royal College of Art. Carter’s work has won the Prince of Wales Award for Industrial Innovation (1981–85)[citation needed] and, for a gas-flow system, the Duke of Edinburgh Prize for Elegant Design (1967).[1]

Carter was president of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers during 1974–75, was appointed Royal Designer for Industry in 1974 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 a commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980.[citation needed]

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