Ross Lovegrove

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Ross Lovegrove
Portrait of Ross Lovegrove.jpg
Lovegrove in 2007
Born1958 (age 6566)
Cardiff, Wales
Alma mater Manchester Polytechnic
Occupation Industrial Designer
Website rosslovegrove.com

Ross Lovegrove (born 1958 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh artist and industrial designer. [1] [2]

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Biography

Ross Lovegrove was born in Wales in 1958. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University), graduating with a First Class BA in Industrial Design in 1980. In 1983, he graduated from the Royal College of Art with a Master of Design. [3]

In the early 1980s he worked with Hartmut Esslinger as a designer for Frog Design on projects such as Walkmans for Sony, and computers for Apple Computer; he later moved to Paris to work for Knoll International, and also collaborated with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Stark. in the late 1980s, he returned to London, and in 1990 he founded a practice of his own, Studio X. [4]

In 2007 he designed a limited edition speaker system called Muon for the British audio company KEF. [5]

In April 2017 a major retrospective of his work entitled CONVERGENCE was exhibited at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in the context of the museum's fortieth anniversary. [6] [7] His work has been exhibited internationally, and is held in the permanent collection of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Vitra Design Museum, and the Design Museum in London.

Personal life

Ross Lovegrove was raised in Penarth by parents who were first cousins and who both hold the name Lovegrove.

Awards

Exhibitions

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