Ross Lovegrove was born in 1958 in Cardiff, Wales. He graduated from Manchester Polytechnic with 1st Class BA Hons Industrial Design in 1980, followed by Master of Design of Royal College of Art, London in 1983.

In the early 80’s he worked as a designer for Frog Design in West Germany on projects such as Walkmans for Sony, Computers for Apple Computers, and later moved to Paris as a consultant to Knoll International, becoming author of the highly successful Alessandri Office System.

He was invited to join the Atelier de Nimes along with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Stark, consulting to amongst others Cacharel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Dupont.

Returning to London in 1986, he completed projects for amongst others Airbus Industries, Kartell, Ceccotti, Cappellini, Idee, Moroso, Luceplan, Driade, Peugeot, Apple Computers, Issey Miyake, Vitra,Motorola,Biomega, LVMH,Yamagiwa Corporation, Tag Heuer, Hackman, Alias, Herman Miller, Japan Airlines and Toyo Ito Architects in Japan.

He is the winner of numerous international awards and his work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Centre Japan, Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Design Museum, London, where in 1993 he curated the first Permanent Collection.