André Ricard Sala

André Ricard (Barcelona 1929) is a Catalan industrial designer. He designed the torch for the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 1993 he won the Creu de Sant Jordi award.

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Industrial designer, lecturer and writer. Raymond Loewy made him contact Peter Muller-Munk, founder of ICSID (1956). Invited as observer at the 1959 ICSID Congress. He shares the set up of ADIFAD (1960), the Spanish designers association he later on presided (1971–1973). Member of the ICSID Study Group (1961). ICSID Vice-President (1963–1971). Leads ICSID Design for Disaster Relief (1976). He founds and presides ADP, the designer's professional association (1978). Vice-President of the Barcelona Design Center (1990–1996). Member of the Faculty of the Art Center - Europe (1988–1996). Head of Product Design in EINA school (1993–1999). Designer of the Olympic torch of the Barcelona Games (1992) and of the Olympic Cauldrum at Lausanne's Olympic Museum (1993). President of the NGO Design for the World (1999–2007). Trustee of EINA Foundation and of Loewe Foundation. Honor Member of the Saint George Academy (2000)

He deserved some prestigious awards: the Spanish National Design Prize (1987), the Saint George Cross and the Olympic Order (1993), Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1998). His works merited Spanish and international design awards. An exhibition of his work was set up at the Miró Museum (1999).

Books: Diseño ¿por qué? (What's design for?) (1982), Diseño y calidad de vida (Design and quality of life)(1985); Hablando de diseño (speaking on design)(1986); La aventura creativa (The creative adventure)(2000): En resumen...(in brief...)(2003); Conversando con estudiantes de diseño (Speaking with design students)(2008); Hitos del diseño (Design hits) (2009)

Bibliography: Guy Julier, New Spanish Design, London: Thames & Hudson, 1991, Emma Dent Coad, Spanish Design and Architecture, London, Studio Vista, 1990

Robert Hughes, Barcelona, Alfred A. Knopf, New-York  1992.