Sustainable metals
communicating the message
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Chair -Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill was a solicitor in general practice in Holborn for many years, and became President of Holborn Law Society in 1995. He was Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Tine Plate Workers from 1981 to 1988, and became a Liveryman in 1987. He subsequently became archivist of the Company, and has recently been engaged in writing a second edition of the History of the Company which is due to be published in July 2009. He joined the Court in 1999 and became Master in July 2009. He became Clerk of the Scriveners Company when he retired from practice as a solicitor in 1998 and was made an Honorary Liveryman of that Company on giving up the Clerkship in 2007.
Samantha Allison
Communications specialist, Samantha Allison has strong a background in design and product development. Currently the communications manager at Corus Packaging she is responsible for internal and market communications. Having graduated from the University of Cape Town and Central St. Martins, she has worked in product development, branding and communications in Africa, North America and Europe. Personally Samantha is an ardent supporter of design education, she believes benchmarking and measuring performance is key to fostering (design) excellence. Outside of her current responsibilities she has created interactive educational resources for undergraduate material scientists, supported design forums and coordinated competitions. She regularly judges educational and packaging industry competitions which aim to benchmark design excellence.
Mike Bond
Mike Bond is strategic director at Bond and Coyne Associates, a Hampshire-based graphic communication consultancy. He graduated from the Royal College of Art with a masters degree in communication design and spent a year as a research associate at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Inclusive Design. As well as speaking at design conferences in London and Glasgow, he lectures on degree courses at different UK institutions. He is a senior lecturer at Kingston University and has contributed to respected periodicals and books including The Designer’s Research Manual published in the US.
Alistair Hall
Alistair Hall is an award-winning graphic designer who specialises in typographic print design. He runs the London design studio We Made This, and their associated design blog. Alistair studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins, before landing his first job as a graphic designer at CDT Design. He set up We Made This in 2003, and recent clients include Penguin Books, Historic Royal Palaces, the Crafts Council and Teenage Cancer Trust.
Max Lamb
A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Lamb cites both the topography and industrial heritage of his native Cornwall as inspiration for his design methodology. Combining industrial production with handcraftsmanship while fusing high and low technologies, the effect is both raw and intense.
Whether carving polystyrene, casting luxurious pewter into crude sand formations on a South Cornish beach for his Pewter Stool, combining lost-wax and sophisticated electro-deposition methods for his Copper stools, or extruding biodegradable materials for his Starch stools, Lamb creates visually arresting pieces that have materials and process at their core. It represents a traditional modernist approach to design – technically rigorous with an appreciation of innovative and appropriate materials and production.
Nick Mullen
Nick Mullen is Director of the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association, which represents the interests of companies involved in the production of light metal containers, closures and components. Member companies range from large international organisations to small independent specialist manufacturers throughout the United Kingdom. In particular, the Association represents members' views to government and other regulatory bodies, both at home and in Europe, and develops industry standards. A liveryman, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and formerly a Vice President with a multi-national company Nick has worked in the metal packaging sector for most of his career.
Bev Page
Bev Page joined National Can Corporation in 1973 as manager of the first factory in Europe to make commercial aluminium drawn and wall ironed (DWI) beverage cans. Following this he was involved in setting up four can/end making factories in Europe. In 1979 he joined what later became Lawson Mardon Can where he was a Director of the factory which made the first steel DWI food cans outside the USA in 1978. In 1998 he became an independent packaging consultant. Bev was Chairman of the (UK) Metal Packaging Manufacturers’ Association from 1993 – 1995 and his book “Metal packaging, an introduction” was published in 2001. Bev joined the Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Company in 1993 and is now a Member of the Court.