His formation in the industrial design is self-taught. When he was 17 years old he resided for four years in France, Switzerland and England. Across Raymond Loewy's writings he discovered the design and was interested for. The year 1956 he went to the United States to interview Loewy that introduces him in a group of designers.

In his professional activity as an industrial designer he has been outlined specially for the works done for Spanish and foreign companies , in the fields of packaging and bottling, domestic utensils, the domestic appliances and the lighting devices. Many of his designs have transformed in protagonists of the daily life of the 60ies, 70ies i 80ies.

At the beginning of the 90ies André Ricard started to were known for the design of the torch of the Olympic Games of Barcelona 1992. In his work he has obtained prizes and mentions to his designs, he has 11 Delta Prizes and national and international recognition, among others.

André Ricard has designed objects as the electrical squeezer with rolled cable (1985), the electrical mixer (1987), the tweezers antiharness Orión (1988), the medal of the centenary (1994), the medal Pierre De Couvertine (1997).

André Ricard has also contributed to the theories about the analysis of the anthropologic roots of design. He has pronounced conferences, he has written articles and is the author of three books.

André Ricard's design looks for the comfort of the objects, he wants that they are useful and with a nice design. He normaly does very simple forms, he does not load them too much with harness. He does daily objects which could make be served easily but with a plus of originality and elegance. He does objects from other "old" designs and renovates them.

André Ricard thinks that the complexity is a process marked by the immaturity and the unsightliness (this one is comparable to the evilness). The complexity is inconvenient. The simplicity is comfortable, because any person can recognize the simplicity of his existence. He does simple forms for the fact of being a pioneer defending the industrial modern design.