The document profiles British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton and describes a day filming for the BBC's Top Gear program. It discusses Hamilton's busy schedule since the last race, including promotional events and a charity dinner. Hamilton is shown eating curry in a Winnebago at an aerodrome, surrounded by his father, a rugby player, and his PR manager, in a more down-to-earth setting than usually depicted.

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11. THE INTERVIEW: LEWIS HAMILTON
o you thought the life of a Formula 1 driver was all
glamour, eh? Whenever I see Lewis Hamilton in the
newspapers, he’s stepping furtively from a limo (or as
furtively as it’s possible to do from a luxury vehicle while
dressed head-to-foot in Hugo Boss’s finest), hand and arm raised
in a vain attempt to shield his head from the intruding lenses and
seething flashbulbs of the paparazzi. The accompanying prose
is often curiously anachronistic: pious and censorious, but
breathlessly delivered and with malign glee, like the village
busybody in a Victorian novel. It speaks of glittering parties,
cocktails and canapes, red carpets and velvet ropes – and, of
course, of romantic liaisons.
Today, though, I’m meeting Lewis in the more down-to-earth
setting of a Winnebago parked at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey,
under slate grey skies and perma-drizzle, where he’s filming an
appearance on the BBC’s Top Gear programme. In one corner
Lewis’s father, Anthony, is chatting to rugby legend Lawrence
Dallaglio. In another, LAT photographer (and regular F1 Racing
contributor) Glenn Dunbar is studying a TV news broadcast, the
present subject of which is a camel that’s been taught to showjump.
Lewis is enthusing to Clare Robertson, his PR minder from
McLaren, about one of the speakers at the Prince’s Trust Future
Investment dinner he attended the night before.
“He [Mark Johnson, author of a book called Wasted] was just a
normal bloke off the street,” he says. “But he’s been through hell.
I’ve never heard as bad a story as that. Women in the audience
were almost in tears. He was inspirational: he’d been in trouble
since he was a kid, into robbing to fund his drugs habit, living on
the street – he didn’t even have any shoes – until the Princes’ Trust
reached out to him. I was blown away by his story – everyone was.”
Hamilton Snr and Dallaglio excuse themselves with a cheery
farewell as Lewis’s lunch is brought in: a plate of chicken curry and
rice wrapped in tinfoil, with a side dish on which are perched a
couple of bite-sized onion bhajis. So much for glamour…
“I’ve been flat-out since the last race, with appearances and
promotional events,” he says, lifting away the foil one corner
at a time and sniffing the plate’s contents suspiciously before
rearranging its contents with a fork. “I had a fitness week with the
team – apart from that there hasn’t been a lot of time for training,
or for relaxing, either. But that goes with the job, doesn’t it?”
From outside I hear a muted squeal as four skinny, high-profile
tyres yield their tenuous purchase on the slippery runway. In my
peripheral vision, through the window, I see a pale blue Suzuki
Liana whoosh past, engine straining. The driver botches the
upchange, and for a second the engine yelps at its rev limiter –
prompting Lewis to raise an eyebrow and glance out the window –
before the higher ratio engages with a crunch.
(Behind the wheel is the singer James Blunt,
Hamilton’s assault who, for the benefit of our overseas readers,
on F1 has been I should explain is taking part in the
like a punch to programme’s regular ‘Star in a Reasonably
the solar plexus Priced Car’ challenge, in which studio guests
of all other drivers must set the best time they can in the long-
suffering Suzuki.) Soon it will be Lewis’s
turn, and I hear it took several months of
January 2008 F1 Racing 31

12. Design Council Issue 4
Magazine Summer 2008
How a dashboard can
drive down emissions
Or why knowledge equals less power, as a Dott 07 project
shows that allowing householders to be energy-aware
could equate to taking a quarter of all cars off UK roads
Article by Crispin Andrews
Through the roof: our homes Climate change may be the hot-button issue of the
emit twice as much CO2 per
year as the average car 21st century, but, for many people, the idea of
being ‘low carb’ is still more likely to conjure up
thoughts of the Atkins diet than a meaningful,
sustained effort to reduce energy usage. And yet
rethinking the basics of how we approach domestic
energy usage has the potential to make a huge
difference to the amount of carbon we produce. In
fact, it could eclipse the efforts made by the
automobile industry or the recycling lobby at
a stroke – and for a fraction of the cost.
Housing accounts for around 30% of the UK’s
total CO2 emissions, with every household in the
UK producing around six tonnes of CO2 each year –
twice as much as the average car. New eco-builds
that can harness solar, wind or wave power are one
way forward, but what about existing housing
stock? Short of replacing entire central heating
systems and installing cavity wall and loft insulation
in every home, what can be done about reducing
the carbon emissions of the average household?
Design consultancy live|work believes it has a
potentially revelatory solution. Designs of the time
(Dott 07), a year-long programme run throughout
the north east of England and jointly funded by the
Design Council and One North East, explores how
design can make a positive difference to lives.
Working on the Dott project dubbed Low Carb
Lane in Ashington, Northumberland, the live|work
team, led by Ben Reason and Alex Webb Allen,
designed a product they believe could reduce
overall CO2 emissions by up to 15%, simply by
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13. Design Council Issue 4 22/23
Magazine Spring 2008
The future of fashion –
nanotechnology, shirts that
hug and jackets set to stun London College of Fashion
There are two trends in the
world today. One is towards
chaos and disorder, for
Smart clothing has the potential to example the threat of global
revolutionise an industry, says Olivia Mikkael Persson
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Gordon, but will top designers wear it? Avbove, pleated skirt with
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Imagine your own personal fabrication machine. on-demand, at a verbal signal from the wearer, by
On waking, you programme in designs for a self- brushing the fabric or by changing one’s mood.
cooling t-shirt in a colour and texture of your choice, Instead of buying three skirts, we might buy just
a Chanel jacket with inbuilt computer, Chloé jeans one that changes colour, size and shape at our whim.
that will remould to your exact shape after a big But how does an industry built on disposability
lunch, and Jimmy Choo shoes with GPS tracking. survive such a revolution? Francesca Rosella,
By the time you’re out of the shower, the clothes creative director of Shoreditch-based smart-fashion
have been fabricated and are waiting in a neat pile. design company CuteCircuit, has said: “One of my
This fantasy could be reality by the end of the obsessions is to see garments coming out three
21st century. 3D fabrication machines already in dimensionally from a machine. The fashion
development would use nanotechnology to build industry is really scared that users could take over.
objects atom by atom. Merely shopping for outfits But there is a business model – you send people
will be rendered so ten minutes ago as a fabrication your designs and they just print them out at home.”
machine is installed in every home. Rosella believes that far from stifling fashion,
Smart clothing – intelligent garments that smart clothes will be in tune with the rising global
actually work for us in some way – is not new. trend against over-consumption, and that a growing
From the invention of the waterproof Mackintosh
in the 1820s to stretchy Lycra in the late 1950s, ‘The fashion industry is really
successive new technologies have gradually
become taken for granted by fashion designers. In scared that users might take over,
the last 20 years, we’ve come from Hypercolor t- but there is a business model’
shirts – which changed colour with heat but rarely
survived a hot washing machine cycle – in the late number of people would rather spend more on a
1980s, to Marks & Spencer’s 2007 iPod Suit with a piece of intelligent clothing that has been lovingly
control centre in the lapel. Today, a huge range of made, locally, by a reputable company, than get
technology is used – although electrical currents or environmentally unsound bargains.
nanotechnology are typically incorporated into But we’re nowhere near smart clothes appearing
textiles with metallic yarns, sewn like any others. routinely on catwalks, let alone at TopShop. Sandy
Cornell University researchers have designed Black, professor of fashion and textile design and
self-cleaning garments that protect from colds, flu technology at the London College of Fashion,
and air pollution (the fabric is impregnated with stresses that, currently, “the driving force which
tiny antibacterial metallic particles); a US Navy- pays for the technology is military or medical. At the
financed shirt monitors heart rate and body sports and wellbeing end, things are beginning to
temperature; C.A.T.S.eye solar-powered trackable happen, but they’re not fashion. They’re clothing.”
clothing means the wearer will never be lost; the As the pace of scientific discovery accelerates,
No-Contact jacket sends 80,000 volts into assailants. fashion designers need to be true futurologists – and
But what’s the next step? And how radically will the inventors with a firm grasp of the latest technological
clothes of the future change the way we dress? possibilities when it comes to materials.
With smart-clothing, trends will be dictated not No matter how effective the technology,
by fashionistas, but by wearers controlling the way the design has to be simple, next-to-invisible,
their clothes look and feel. Clothes will transmute non-gimmicky and function perfectly for fashion

14. Design Council Issue 4 66/67
Magazine Summer 2008
Case study 3 passport-issuing software was fine-tuned to
make it more productive and a new computerised
processing system installed. To cut waiting times,
The Passport Agency uses opening hours and appointment availability were
increased; appointment-only counter services,
premium and fast-track services were introduced
service design to stop to reduce queues. The agency then beefed up its
project management systems and private-sector
infuriating customers
partnerships and strengthened its risk management
and contingency planning.
Soon, the service was meeting its target of
In 1999, at least 500 holidays were cancelled due answering 90% of calls within 20 seconds.
to a crisis at the UK Passport Agency. Applications Application waiting times fell from a 51-day nadir
were taking up to 50 days to process – they were in 1999 to a six-day average across 2003-2006.
supposed to take only five. Panic-stricken travellers Of 4.2 million calls in 2006-7, fewer than 1%
camped outside passport offices – the agency were met with an engaged tone.
spent £16,000 on providing umbrellas for rain-
lashed applicants – while around 3.5 million calls The agency’s next big task is to ensure it tackles
went unanswered. The agency’s new computer identity fraud, that most 21st-century of crimes.
system had produced 400,000 fewer passports With 47 million British passports in circulation, the
than expected in its first nine months of operation, UK is the world’s second biggest passport issuer
generating a backlog that ultimately cost the behind the US. Today, 80% of Brits hold one –
government £12.6m, including £161,000 in whereas fewer than one in four people had one in
compensation to irate would-be holidaymakers. 1984. In 2006, the Passport Agency merged with
the Home Office identity cards programme as the
Yet in 2006, for the third year running, the agency Identity and Passport Service (IPS). New measures
ranked first for overall customer satisfaction in the have led to fee increases, concerns about civil
CompariSat surveys of public and private sector liberties and, in some cases, longer waiting periods.
organisations, with a 97% approval rate. How did With the introduction of biometric ‘ePassports’,
it achieve such a remarkable turnaround? By with a secure chip that stores a scan of the holder’s
prioritising customer relations and thinking photo, fees have risen by almost a third – to £66.
hard about service design.
The next stage will be a passport holding
“There was a big focus on systems redesign, but fingerprints ,while all applicants’ details, including
more importantly on restoring public confidence,” eye or facial scans, are now being stored on
says Bernard Herdan, who took over as chief government databases. There are massive
executive after the crisis. The first stage was challenges ahead, but the service will be much
understanding what went wrong. Crucially, the better prepared for the worst-case scenario in future.
agency had underestimated the impact of the new
computer system on productivity – for many staff it
had meant a transition from paper to screen.
Demand for passports was high, partly due to the A brief history of the British passport
new requirement for children to have their own 1414 First ‘safe documents’ referenced in parliament
passports. Once the backlog began, the in-house
phone service couldn’t handle the volume of calls. 1641 Date of oldest surviving passport, signed by
King Charles 1
As people panicked, the crisis escalated. Britons
with up to six months left on their passport joined 1858 Standard, single-page documents issued solely
the queue. “We didn’t have proper systems in place to British nationals
to communicate with our customers,” says Herdan. 1914 Passports become a single sheet folded into
eight with a cardboard cover
After consulting with customers, and studying best
1920 Passport Service develops and introduces
practice in Australia – generally recognised to have ‘Old Blue’, a 32-page passport with firm cover
the best passport service in the world – the Passport
Agency published a recovery plan. 1988 Burgundy-coloured, machine-readable
passports issued, following a European
Community-approved format
To gain some immediate respite, calls were
outsourced to a 24-hour centre and a user-friendly 2006 Biometric ‘ePassports’, with a secure chip
website and system for handling email enquiries containing a scan of the holder’s photograph
was set up. Addressing the crux of the problem, the and signature, are introduced

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31. As Ford prepares to offload Britain’s luxury brand, Jaguar bosses
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sports car. Steve Cropley and Julian Rendell report
Jaguar F-type
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» New XK saloon to battle Porsche Panamera
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89. MORE THAN A GAME CHESTERFIELD VS MANSFIELD TOWN
Words Nick Harper
“Why did they have to play it today?” of “Scab, scab, scab”. It’s an hour before kick- a simple bastardisation of the club’s nickname.
asks one of the many police officers on watch off and there are groups of police officers But to those old enough to know better, it’s
by Chesterfield’s Crooked Spire, surrounded on almost every street corner. Just watching. much more complex than that.
on all sides by Christmas shoppers. “Why And waiting. By kick-off – brought forward Sitting just 12 miles apart, Chesterfield
not leave it till January, when everybody two hours to reduce the chance of booze- and Mansfield have been rivals for decades.
would be indoors and out the way?” fuelled festive fisticuffs – Chesterfield’s The Spireites joined the Football League
ramshackle old home will have 6,300 people in 1889, Mansfield in 1931. “Until then,
It’s a good question, one FourFourTwo – about as many as safety certificates will Mansfield’s first team usually played our
is unable to answer. For while the fixture allow – crammed inside, three-quarters of reserves,” says Chesterfield historian Stuart
machine should be applauded for whom will have their eyes fixed firmly on Basson, “and we pressed hard for their
bringing Chesterfield together the Cross Street End’s 1,400 visiting election to the League.” When that elusive
with near-neighbours Mansfield fans: the Stags. Or as the home election came at the seventh attempt the
on December 22, the long- fans prefer, the Scabs... rivalry took on extra significance, with
standing tensions between the two points as well as local pride now at stake.
sets of fans have been foolishly “Scab, scab, scab, In truth, neither club has scaled the
overlooked. When Mansfield last scab, scab, scab.” heights – Mansfield’s elevation to the old
visited, in January 2003, hooligans Second Division in 1977 is the highest
from both sides clashed before, “Scab, scab, scab, either has clambered up the ladder, and that
during and after the game, scab, scab, scab.” lasted just a single season. The Stags also
and there’s little reason to won the Freight Rover Trophy in 1987,
believe they won’t do the What this while Chesterfield can boast of an Anglo-
same again today. incessant chant lacks in Scottish Cup win in 1981, plus a heroic run
Undeterred, we shuffle on lyrical inventiveness it to the brink of the FA Cup final in 1997.
towards Saltergate, where the more than makes up Throw in the odd promotion and
home fans are serenading their for in old fashioned bile. relegation and you’ve covered most of the
bitter rivals with a few throaty rasps To the outsider, it’s significant moments.

91. he surroundings may not have been Words Simon Talbot
familiar, but there was no mistaking
that grin. January 25 2007, the Stadio
Olimpico in Rome: a Coppa Italia match
between Roma and AC Milan is on the
pitch, but all the attention is focused on
beaming Brazilian in the black overcoat.
A camera crew follows him from the bowels
of the stadium car park, all industrial pipes
and strip lighting, to the stands, where he
picks his way to his seat in the directors’
box, shaking hands, signing autographs and
smiling that famous gap-toothed smile.
As the front page of Spain’s best selling
newspaper puts it the following morning,
“Ronaldo is happy once again.” Five
injury-hit months in which he has played
just six league matches and scored only two
goals draw to a close; there is hope once
again. Five months during which his
relationship with the coach reached
breaking point, no longer protected by the
unequivocal backing of an indulgent
president, are over.
So too is Ronaldo’s Real Madrid career.
After four and a half seasons and 100 goals,
he departs the Santiago Bernabeu for the
very last time, joining AC Milan for a fee
of around £10m. “Goodbye Ronaldo,
goodbye galaxy,” runs the front cover of
the sports daily Marca. “Ronaldo leaves,
closing the most luxurious chapter in Real
Madrid’s history.” In Milan, they can hardly
believe their luck; back in Madrid they’re
cursing theirs.
That’s not all they’re cursing. Covering
the Roma-Milan game for Spanish
television, one Real Madrid-supporting
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Body talk
imbs honed to perfection, striding
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quickly adapted her wardrobe after her
separation from Charles. When the
Princess’s marriage ended so did her
commitment to demure hemlines and
the flat pumps that had ensured she
did not tower over the future king.
Previously, the rail-slim Princess
had the perfect body to show off
clothes; now the clothes were designed
to show off her body: tanned, fit and
looking sensational in simple shifts LEFT: WEARING
VERSACE IN SYDNEY,
1996. TOP: VERSACE
for day and sexy cocktail dresses by AGAIN, AT A PREMIERE
IN 1995. ABOVE: THE
INFAMOUS JOHN
night. Her release from ‘the Firm’ GALLIANO-DESIGNED
DIOR ‘NIGHTDRESS’ –
SO FLIMSY IT KEPT
gave her freedom to explore new DIANA OFF THE
DANCEFLOOR WHEN
SHE WORE IT IN 1997.
designers. Versace, whose deliberately
provocative style would have been
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queen, became a close friend.

104. THE FACE OF FASHION
Cultural expressions
A sartorial approach to foreign travel makes Diana a star everywhere
lthough not known for her Braemar Games. Some a little mischievous,
mastery of foreign tongues, such as her penchant for sailor hats at Naval BELOW, FROM LEFT:
Diana quickly learned how to events. But all had the clear intention of INSPECTING NAVAL
break down international winning the hearts of her hosts. Even France CADETS; MAPLE LEAF
barriers. From her first official fell at her feet when, on her first visit and INSPIRATION IN
walkabout tour, where she won apparently embarrassed about her schoolgirl CANADA; DRESSING
over Wales with a red and green ensemble that French, she dressed head to toe in Chanel. CULTURALLY IN
reflected the Welsh flag, she was a consumate Local traditions and cultural nuances were SPAIN, THAILAND
communicator in the language of clothes. woven into Diana’s wardrobe. She may not AND EYGPT.
Some interpretations were obvious, such as have had an ‘O’ Level to her name, but in the RIGHT: FLAG
tartan and tam o’shanters for Scotland’s diplomacy of dressing she was a star pupil. FASHION IN JAPAN

105. THE FACE OF FASHION
Making a statement
The memorable night Diana let her wardrobe do the talking
n 29 June 1994, Diana
attended a fund-raising
dinner at the Serpentine
Gallery, of which she was
patron. It was the night that
Charles admitted he had
been unfaithful to Diana in a television
interview with Jonathan Dimbleby. For the
LEFT: THE CHRISTINA occasion, Diana chose an asymmetric, ruched
STAMBOLIAN black dress by Christina Stambolian.
CREATION THAT Stunning. This was strategy dressing at its
BECAME KNOWN AS boldest and the message it sent out was
THE ‘REVENGE strong and clear. Diana was in control – and
DRESS’. ABOVE: using her appearance to tell the world.
CHARLES WITH Unsurprisingly, Diana and the dress stole
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY the headlines the next day, relegating
Charles’s revelations to second place. Diana
had grown to understand the power of
clothes – and had shown she wasn’t afraid to
use them when she wanted to say something
Christina Stambolian,
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classic bags that look like
they mean business £1,290, Roger Vivier * £875, Jimmy Choo * £935, Burberry * £425, Meli Melo
£1,000, Celine * £655, Loewe *8 £1,120, YSL *
£885, Moschino * £675, Marni * £125, J by Jasper Conran at £395, Belen Echandia *8
Debenhams *8
£695, Luella 8 £437, Antonio Berardi £420, Hogan *
From top: £795, Jimmy
Choo *; £615, Tod’s *; £480, Longchamp * £595, Anya Hindmarch *8 £360, Cora & Dee £630, Juicy Couture
£495, Hogan *
eve 15

118. Around £267, Jean Michel Cazabat £230, Pedro Garcia *8 £430, Dior by John Galliano * Around £437, Sergio Rossi *8
at Harvey Nichols
glam
£325, Patrick Cox * £215, Nicole Farhi * £345, Christian Louboutin *8 £338, Cesare Paciotti 8
rocks
The new eveningwear features lace-
decked toes, unwrap-me bows and
sexy bejewelled straps. Delicious
£650, Jimmy Choo * £372, Brian Atwood *8 Around £403, Sergio Rossi *8 £550, Gina *8
£25, Marks & Spencer *8
£137, Felix Rey *8
£55, Principles 8
£405, Christian Louboutin *8
Sandals, £375, Brian
Atwood *8. Clutch
bag, £880, Rodo *8.
Brooch, £2,550, H Stern
£199, LK Bennett * £832, Shana London *8 £450, Gina *8
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