About the Author

Ross Lovegrove (born 1958) studied industrial design at Manchester Polytechnic and received his Master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London in 1983. For more than thirty years he has produced an unusually wide variety of work, whose importance to the development of industrial design cannot be overestimated. He made considerable contributions to the development of the first Sony Walkman, as well as the first Apple computer, SE/30, for example. He is the recipient of many awards (including being named Royal Designer of Industry by the Royal Society of Arts), and his work can be found in collections around the world, from the MoMa in New York City to the Design Museum in London, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Basel, and elsewhere.