Ross Lovegrove (born 1958 in Cardiff, Wales) graduated from Manchester Polytechnic in 1980 and received a Master of Design degree from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1983.  In the early 1980s, he worked as a designer for Frog Design in West Germany on tech projects for companies like Sony and Apple; he later moved to Paris as a consultant to Knoll International, for which he created the highly successful Alessandri Office System.  Invited to join the Atelier de Nimes in 1984, alongside with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Stark, he has worked with Cacharel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, and Dupont.  Lovegrove returned to London in 1986 and has since worked on projects for Airbus Industries, Kartell, Ceccotti, Cappellini, Moroso, Luceplan, Driade, Peugeot, Apple, Issey Miyake, Vitra, Motorola, Biomega, LVMH, Narciso Rodriguez, Yamagiwa, Tag Heuer, Swarovski, Herman Miller, Artemide, Renault, Japan Airlines, Toyo Ito Architects, Kenzo, Valextra, GH Mumm, LG, F1, Samsung and KEF.  Lovegrove is the winner of numerous international awards and his work has been extensively published and is included in the permanent collections of several museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Design Museum, London; Vitra Design Museum, Basel; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich; and Centre Pompidou, Paris.