Our final Design Miami Chat Show filmed in Miami last month features British designer Ross Lovegrove.
Filmed at Design Miami in front of a live audience, Lovegrove talks about the five images (which all happen to be of his own work) he selected in response to the Design Miami Chat Shows brief: My Design Life in Five Images.
See all the movies in this series posted so far or watch individual movies:
Ted Noten
Campana Brothers
Paul Cocksedge
John Maeda
Tom Dixon
Julia Lohmann
Aranda\Lasch
Arik Levy
Design Miami Chat Shows are supported by Fendi.
Here’s a biography of Lovegrove:
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Ross Lovegrove
Ross was born in 1958 in Cardiff, Wales and graduated from Manchester Polytechnic in 1980. He received his MA from the Royal College of Art in 1983. In his early career, Ross designed for Frogdesign in West Germany, working on projects such as Sony Walkman and Apple Computers.
Later he moved to Paris to consult for Knoll International and, around the same time, he was invited to join the legendary Atelier de Nîmes along with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Stark. Returning to London in 1986, Ross has completed projects for Airbus Industries, Kartell, Ceccotti, Cappellini, Idée, Moroso, Luceplan, Driade, Peugeot, Issey Miyake, Vitra, Motorola, LVMH, Tag Heuer, Hackman, Alias, Herman Miller, Japan Airlines and Toyo Ito Architects.
Winner of numerous international awards, his work has been extensively exhibited throughout the world at venues including MoMA (New York), Guggenheim Museum (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Design Museum (London). Ross Lovegrove will be doing a project for Swarovski at this year’s Design Miami/.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
January 16th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
HOLY CANOLY! That guy sure is red!
January 16th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Man he grinds my gears!……cocky as always
January 16th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
hah, i love ross lovegrove. he sounds cocky, yes but it seems like he just loves to make stuff and talk about what he makes. he isnt one of those designers who talks about the nobility of design or the profession and doesn’t try to trick you or himself with weird words, concepts and meanings that you can’t understand because they don’t exist. He just plays with things and straight up tells you that the things he makes are just intuition or experimentation, not right or wrong or better or worse.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Hey Marcus! You look red as well
January 26th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
awesome interview, I like him already
January 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Ross Lovegrove is on a level we mortals cannot understand!
January 26th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Good speech, i never feel this messages when i see his work, I think he could be talking about anything, “inside of
January 26th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Good speech, he could be talking about anything.
Poor guy, born gifted, then sadly stumbled into design and ever since has been talking alot to justify his beautiful shapes
January 26th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I love Love… Grove
January 26th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Okay, yeah… he’s cocky. He’s pretentious. He’s obnoxious. He has an ego that’s immeasurable. But, golly… you still have to give it to him. He makes cool stuff. Yet, having said all of that… it would be SO lovely if he were self-effacing and more generous with his accomplishments. Honestly, I don’t know where he leaves me feeling. He’s a superior bore… but he creates some rather wonderful ‘things.’ He’s someone who should just produce and NEVER speak or appear in public.
January 27th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Is Ross auditioning for the new Hell Boy movie. I’ve never seen someone so red outside of Liverpool.
January 27th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Love that line:
“I teach them things they can’t do” and imagine the aerospace techinicians watching the video.
Check out Mickey Mouse glazing over in the background.
February 1st, 2009 at 12:30 am
Is he serious? i never realised just how crazy mr lover lover is. He really needs to get over his trousers and stop flying to venice to buy his sketch books, use the internet to buy one mr scientist!
February 4th, 2009 at 1:04 am
“I am a sculptor of the abstract forces of technology”
ah
February 16th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Let’s face it, you’re always going to sound a bit pompous when you’re describing the creative process. And hang on! I’d rather travel to Venice on the offchance I might find the perfect sketchbook on the shelf than order it on the internet. Adventure, chance, experience is everything
April 7th, 2009 at 6:02 am
Dudes,
He rocks, dont care if he is cocky.
I cant wait to see his next interview.
I ran into him in MIlan several years back, very nice person
actually, would not mind his rantings if I worked for him!
As a designer he is quite self effacing, as he gives almost all credit to Colani
for his process.
Check out his Ted talks presentation- it’s a doozy!
B