Design for life

摘要

For a man whose fascination with naval architecture stretches back to boyhood, it is perhaps a surprise to learn that shipping is not in Stephen Payne's blood.rnIn fact, the designer of Queen Mary 2 and current vice president chief naval architect, Carnival Corporate Shipbuilding, was born in 1960 to a father who was a tea taster and a mother who was a school secretary.rnBut Mr Payne's 1 July 2007 election as 28th president of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects is another staging post in a life defined by a love of the arts and crafts of ship design and construction.