David’s education was firmly routed in the State system. He attended Chase Lane Junior school in Chingford Essex and after a successful 11+ spent 5 years at McEntee Technical School, formerly South West Essex Technical School, in Walthamstow, East London.

After a short spell at Art School in South East Essex David embarked on his design career in London working for the retailer ‘Maples’ in the Interior Design Studio. From Maples, he was lucky to get a job with one of London’s small but highly reputable design firms ‘The Nicholson Brothers’ working on Hotel Interiors and fabric and wallpaper design. A move to another design group with a graphics bias and evening schools in typography, drawing and drafting helped him to establish himself as an independent designer. Awards followed and a reputation began that established his ability as a designer in many disciplines.

At the age of 30, whilst his peers practiced in London and New York, David blazed his own trail establishing a design group in a barn conversion in rural Essex. At its height, David employed a team of 30 people working on projects for the Government during the privatisation period as well as national treasures such as London Underground and household brands such as Boots the Chemist and Natwest bank. His identity for the Eurotunnel, designed in the early 90s, still adorns the tunnel entrance to this day.

David took on several roles as an ‘outside assessor’ of students and teaching staff alike, in various Art Schools including Canterbury, Duncan of Jordanston (Dundee), Nottingham and East Sussex.

David lectured, assessed and mentored, and won various awards in the UK and in the USA and was particularly proud of his coveted Gold Award from NYADC and he was President of the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) twice in the 90s as well as a committee member of D&AD. He was a founder of the Society of Illustrators. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Society of Typographic Designers (FSTD).

David was a Partner at the ‘designers’ design group’ Pentagram in the early 90s and was appointed as Consultant Creative Director of the Conran Design Group in the early 2000s.

His clients have included London Transport, Natwest, British Gas, British Telecom, Pirelli, Green King, Gartner, Research Board, BP, City of London Corporation, Phaidon, National Railway Museum and the British Museum.

David died in November 2021 and has left a lasting physical impression on the architectural landscape and the world of design more generally.