Ross Lovegrove
Background
He was born in 1958, Wales, graduated from Manchester Polytechnic in 1980.
Master of Design of Royal College of Art, London in 1983. In the early 80's worked as a designer for Frog Design in West Germany on projects such as walkmans for Sony, computers for Apple computers, later moved to Paris as a consultant to Knoll International. Invited to join the Atelier de Nimes along with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Starck, consulting to amongst others Cacharel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Dupont.
Returning to London in 1988 he has completed projects for amongst others British Airways, Kartell, Cappellini, Phillips, Moroso, Driade, Mazda, Apple Computers, Olympus Cameras, Luceplan, Tag Heuer, Fratelli Guzzini, Alias and Herman Miller.
Winner of numerous international awards his work has been published and exhibited internationally including the museum of modern art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Centre Japan, Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Design Museum, London, when in 1993 he curated the first permanent collection. most recently, his work was shown in a solo exhibition: 'Ross Lovegrove -design' at the danish museum of decorative art in Copenhagen, 'Ross Lovegrove objects' in Stockholm, 'organic dreams' at IDEE in Tokyo and 'sensual organic design' at Yamagiwa Corporation in Tokyo.
