Design Week invited David Kimpton to write a piece about his favourite Children’s Book (he always seems to get landed with the really serious academic topics). His response explains a lot…
‘Carlotti Joins the Team’ by the late great Mike Hawthorn, the first British F1 World Champion. Published in 1959 (no, I’m not that old), this is the story of a young lad whose single passion in life is motor racing (that was me) and his only wish is to emulate his hero and become a top racing driver himself (yep). He then gets his chance and… (not me). Somehow I got sidetracked and ended up colouring-in.’