Ross Lovegrove: The power and beauty of organic design

www.ted.com Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of fat-free design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair.
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[@santarigreen]

There is something inspiring in the way that he talks and presents his ideas. You have to be in the zone to understand him but he is worth understanding. Throughout his presentation he pulses his love for nature and form and leads us into his world. I applaud his boldness and adventurous spirit.

[@davidpinto0]

superb verbalisation of what he does... excellent... sometimes i get the idea is full of himself, but then i think he is nervous, so i am going to interprete the guy as really grounded actually... and what a dreamer... wow... goes on a bit about himself, but i think his real passion is sharing...

[@WordsWithSubstance]

I can dig the ideas and I love the Pharcyde sample n the music at the end.

[@Marinawinkel]

Wauhhh... what a passionate soul. Brilliant to witness a true authentic creator. Thank you :-))

[@shannonsarussi9714]

legend!!!! very inspired

[@plexform]

Brilliant!

[@kolly.]

“Overtime is the passion of design”

[@stavokg]

How about Antoni Gaudi? Looks like an inspiration, no?

[@HuckleberrySlim]

I really like that idea of doing a caricature of the product as the packaging for that product. Like his flowing looking plastic bottle to put water that flows just like it inside. I'd like to see, beyond the flowiness...WAVES, a little choppy ocean, right on the surface of the bottle in my hands. Thats a cool direction to take design. It could go anywhere you want it. Very nature based, something we're starting to crave, inside all these boxes and squares. Its a Dr. Seuss thing ;)

[@user-ut8gh7ww9y]

There is an ice spike kind of holder by Swarovski and similar lamps by another designer that I adore.

[@lucasdidthis]

does anyone know the book at around 17:44? it's from someone 'Charles Revelle' or so. searched google for quite a while but couldn't find the book 'On Things You Can't See'.

[@solaeflore]

www.amazon.fr/Giles-Revell-Tectonics-Emma-Gieben-Gamal/dp/095384515X

[@IamChandEvil]

awesome dude

[@halukgul]

this was so funny lmao good work

[@impalapez]

the aluminum bench and car on a stick are pretty cool though...

[@user-ut8gh7ww9y]

The table is my fav.

[@asz500]

wotar .... that was tolk abawt nice work

[@LiamLovegrove]

I'm a Lovegrove!!

[@tomasql]

6:45 lol

[@zedzero01]

I'm like Leanardo Da Vinci and Henry Moore?! Surely thats for other people to judge. Nice work though.

[@sugarkang]

He was right about Sony. Just because he comes off as a jerk doesn't mean he's wrong.

[@MilesB1975]

He said 'It's' not 'I'm'

[@dylanlawless1]

Did he just learn the word polymer before this "talk"?

[@mobrown7594]

dylanlawless1 loooool

[@Aestros909]

I think he's just having fun being an artist. Many successful artists are larger than life like rock stars! Look at Luigi Colani. Sometimes big ideas require a big head.

[@graciacampos5241]

he is not an artist, he is an industrial designer.

[@user-ut8gh7ww9y]

​@@graciacampos5241he claims industrial design is the art of the XXI century 😅

[@LBNANY]

wait, so he made a chair...nice. Looks like a curvy lawn chair. Oh yeah and a irregularly shaped water bottle...genius. I liked the staircase however.

[@graciacampos5241]

no, he designed products to improve your life, genius.

[@user-ut8gh7ww9y]

The table is stunning. However not the most functional nor easy to clean.

[@packe777]

@tillo2008 Isn't it strange and paradoxical that if life is a cold miracle, sentience of an evolutionary adaptation: psychology a consequence of biology, biology a consequence of chemistry, chemistry a consequence of physics; a blind and dastardly chain of entirely coincidental and parasitic ectropy that somehow gave us the consciousness which gave us creativity. But if consciousness is just an Epiphenomenalism, how come is that we can comprehend the Universe but Universe cant comprehend us?

[@user-ut8gh7ww9y]

You need to talk to your psy sweetie.

[@3LARI]

@valu777 "Swearing is a really important part of one's life and it would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enoying swearing. There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who would say swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary as such; utter nonsense! The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies!" - Stephen Fry

[@dallasINtokyo]

He seems a little unstable

[@GeorgeI]

Genius, inspiring, insightful. Yes he's a pretty arrogant fellow, but I dismiss that, taking great lessons on his "fat-free" design philosophy and most importantly taking inspiration from nature design by God, the ultimate designer of every living thing around us. Too bad Ross misses the obvious and credits things to evolution, that's a real loss.

[@QueSeraSeraBelle]

Such ego!

[@mobrown7594]

Asheli exactly what I was thinking lol

[@tanujarora1408]

Does the talent justify it though?

[@user-ut8gh7ww9y]

It's just an act 😂😂😂 a charade

[@ilv1]

Copying forms of nature without regard for WHY it is that way is kind of wrong. In the beginning he disses blobs or whatever but getting a small, organic whatever and copying it's form at a larger scale is also superficial. Those chairs look so wrong just because nature uses the process that he mimics at a much smaller scale. I liked the "growing" idea but nature bases it's "growth" on complex algorithms and solutions to problems. Extruding or stretching legs out of a metal plate is not the same

[@Thesweetchef]

Like aphrodisiac to our senses!

[@friedmule5403]

I am properly wrong but for me it looks like he takes architecture and press it around his egocentric perception of what he thinks the nature ort to be?

[@flossysband]

FORGET THAT CAR!!!!!!!! OMG you will never see me in that bulb of a car

[@backflippingcow]

Ross Lovergrove has good concepts but very pretentious his actual products are quite bad he showed other people's designs throughout the presentation

[@Nihilianth]

His car is atrocious.

[@user-ut8gh7ww9y]

I love his table.

[@3LARI]

@valu777 Check out Godwin's Law. It basically states that as arguments drag on in internet discussions, one person, in desperation, will compare their opponent to Hitler somehow, thereby exposing the impotence of their argument and, consequently, losing the argument. It only took you two comments :D

[@nicoacheche]

I can't tell How wrong and inhuman it's the idea of not paying overtime. Who the fucking are you to say that "overtime is the pasion of designers ". May be it's your passion be cause you develop further your product and win big bucks... At the expense of the hours not paid of your emploees , argumenting that if you do not accept that trait, then you dont have passion... How manipulative can a person be ?

[@Notsorandomnumbers]

seems unoriginal... artneuvo and what not

[@Yudicopter]

art nouveau is almost completely different

[@velvetblu]

he is God!

[@Marinawinkel]

Wauhhh... what a passionate soul. Brilliant to witness a true authentic creator. Thank you :-))

[@Marinawinkel]

Wauhhh... what a passionate soul. Brilliant to witness a true authentic creator. Thank you :-))