Professor David has a background in product design and related fields and he was an early adopter 3D modelling and rapid prototyping and a keen advocate of the benefits these bring to the design process. The integration of digital processes within traditional design has been a key part of his pedagogy and approach to curriculum design.

David remains interested in the ways in which the further development and deployment of 3-D printing technologies (sintering and multi-material systems) reframe the inter-relationships of consumer- object-designer, and may introduce the notion of bespoke manufacture. This re-defines what a designer does and their role in the development of a consumer object, and also re-defines the role of the consumer from a relatively passive purchaser selecting from a range of predefined objects, to a relatively active customer contributing to the particularities of the object as instance rather than as mass production.

David has spent a large part of my HE experience working collaboratively with UK, EU and partners overseas. As a key supporter of TNE in its broadest sense, he has taught in China and Malaysia amongst other countries, and he is well versed in leading and supporting curriculum developments in the EU and OS markets.