Ronald David Carter CBE FRSA RDI (30 December 1927 – 16 November 2020) was a British designer known for projects like the Stanley knife and LeShuttle, which carries vehicles under the Channel.
[1] He trained at the Leicester College of Art (now DeMontfort University), simultaneously spending a good part of 2 years in an engineering works.
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.
[9] 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.
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.