Ross Lovegrove

Ross Lovegrove

Ross Lovegrove (* 1958 in Cardiff , Wales ) is a British industrial designer . He was best known for his work on the Sony Walkman . His works are inspired by organic shapes and structures.

biography

Lovegrove began his studies at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University ), where he obtained a First Class BA in Industrial Design in 1980 . He continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London, where he graduated with a Master of Design in 1983.

At the beginning of the 1980s he worked, partly while studying, in West Germany as a designer for Frog Design . Major projects of the period included the Sony Walkman and work for Apple . He later worked as a consultant for Knoll International in Paris. After his success with the Alessandri office system, he was invited to the Atelier de Nîmes together with Jean Nouvel and Philippe Starck , where they developed new design concepts mainly for Louis Vuitton , Hermés and Dupont.

His hobbies include collecting African tribal art, especially African shields.

Companies

In 1988 he returned to London, where he ran a design studio with Julian Brown. In 1990 he founded his own Studio X. Ross Lovegrove's customer base includes Cappellini, Sony , Apple , Driade, Luceplan, Edra, Biomega , Moooi, Zanotta , Mandarina Duck, Kartell, Artemide and Herman Miller . Lovegrove also worked on projects for Airbus , Ceccotti, Idea, Moroso, Peugeot , Issey Miyake , Vitra , Olympus , Yamagiwa, Tag Heuer , Hackman, Alias, Japan Airlines , British Airways , Philips and Toyo Ito Architects, Japan.

Newer works

In his most recent works, the ecological aspect is becoming more and more important. In 2007 he designed so-called solar trees , solar-powered street lights in the shape of trees for Vienna's Ringstrasse .

Awards and exhibitions

Lovegrove has received numerous international awards. His work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York , the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York, the Axis Center , Japan, the Center Pompidou , Paris, and the Design Museum , London, where he also curated his first permanent exhibition in 1993. In November 2005, Lovegrove received the World Technology Award from Time Magazine and CNN . In the same year he received the important red dot design award for the design of Vitra products .

Web links

• Official website
• Lovegrove's 20-minute speech at the TED conference (2005) in Monterey, CA.
• Interview and recent work on Designboom.com
• Designlines: Interview with Ross Lovegrove, May 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sean O'Toole: Love grove. February 1, 2004, accessed on October 21, 2012 (English): "I got taken out of a college a year before the Royal to work for Frog Design, who - at that time - were the very best." 
2. ↑ Zeit-Magazin No. 41, October 4, 2018, p. 58.
3. ↑ World premiere: Designer Ross Lovegrove presents the “Solar Tree”. (No longer available online.) In: Der Solarserver. September 30, 2007, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; Retrieved July 15, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.