In this assignment we’ll be talking about Ross Lovegrove, his life as a product designer, his notable work, and his accomplishments.
Lovegrove was born in 1958 in Cardiff, Wales. He graduated from Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University), finishing with a first class BA in industrial Design in 1980 and then went to the Royal College of Art, London in 1983 where he completed his master of design.Ross Lovegrove worked for several years for Frogdesign,Hartmut Esslinger’s design agency in Altensteig, Germany where his projects included collaborating on designing the Sony Walkam and computer chassis for Apple.Then Lovegrove became a designer at Knoll International, for whom he developed the bestselling Alessandri Office System.His work has been extensively 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. His inspiration mainly comes from organic forms and structures. Nature and art were and still are Lovegrove’s life.
Ross Lovegrove is a designer and visionary who’s work is considered to be at the very apex of stimulating a profound change in the physicality of our three dimensional world. Inspired by the logic and beauty of nature his design possess a trinity between technology, materials science and intelligent organic form. In 1986 Ross Lovegrove returned to Britain and opened a London practice jointly with Julia Brown. In 1990 Ross Lovegrove founded a practice of his own, Studio X, also in London.
In 1993 Lovegrove was commissioned to assemble and organize the first London Design Museum collection.In 1996 Ross Lovegrove designed “Crop”, an armchair with a soft seat in organic forms. Also in 1996 Lovegrove designed “Bone”, a chair with a maple frame, a wood that really does, in its natural state, recall bone shapes. In 1997 he designed “Magic”, a startlingly innovative chair with a seat that seems to be hovering in space with no support as it is only fastened to the back by the top of the apron to the back. His work was shown in many exhibitions around the world, here are some of them: -‘Ross Lovegrove-Design’, Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen 1998 -Liquid Space table and chandelier installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace, Design Miami 2008 – Host of CNN ‘Just Imagine’ documentary presenting a vision of the world 2020 
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