Ross Lovegrove was born in 1958 in Cardiff, Wales and graduated from Manchester Polytechnic with a 1st class BA honors in Industrial Design in 1980. Lovegrove has worked for a variety of clients such as Issey Miyake, Herman Miller and Airbus and in 2005 he was awarded the World Technology Award for design. His personal artwork has been exhibited at MoMA in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Design Museum in London.