began his career as a silversmith before obtaining a Master of Arts in Industrial Design and spending seven years as a Design Consultant at the Design Council in London.

In 1986, he established his own studio in Cheltenham and turned his attention to writing instruments. What followed was the "Scribbler," a 5.6mm clutch pencil that has now been in continuous production for nearly four decades, quietly selling in thousands worldwide and imitated by far larger manufacturers, yet never equalled. It is the work of a designer who understands that the finest objects earn their reputation not through novelty but through an unwillingness to compromise.

That same principle guided his collaboration with Conway Stewart: a fountain pen crafted in sterling silver and clad in 200-year-old Russian reindeer leather, recovered by divers from a shipwreck in Plymouth Sound. The leather had lain beneath the English Channel since 1786, preserved by the very tanning methods that made Russian craftsmen renowned centuries ago. In David's hands, it found its purpose again.