Car enthusiast Jay Leno — a huge fan of the Chevy Volt electric vehicle — praises the easy-to-use AeroVironment home charging dock in a new video episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage”. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Creativity’ Category
Insights with Illumina
June 16th, 2011
What are the key components that make a successful project and a successful client relationship? (more…)
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Eames x IBM Exhibition
May 13th, 2011
LUNAR Palo Alto will be hosting the THINK: Communicating Technology exhibition starting on May 20th. (more…)
The Windowfarms Project
March 7th, 2011
When I was living in Brooklyn, I had a neighbor with a crazy idea – to grow her own food in her apartment year round. I could see the vertical water bottles she used in her early attempt in her courtyard facing window whenever I took out the garbage. I thought to myself “Britta is crazy. That’s just not going to work.”
Shortly later, I realized that you should never underestimate Britta. (more…)
An ode to simple product design
March 3rd, 2011
As a product engineer, I often find myself delighted by the little things–an ingenious locking mechanism, a cleverly designed component, a silky smooth hinge – which is why the simplest of designs are sometimes the most fascinating. One everyday object that I find to be particularly (and deliciously) nifty is the McFlurry spoon.
Let there be light at ICFF 2011
February 23rd, 2011
LUNAR designer, Junggi Sung, will be exhibiting his Ember lighting concept at this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair, a four day global design summit in NYC. (more…)
Buy me
February 1st, 2011
Commercials have always fascinated me. It occurred to me a few years ago that televisions only exist for the purpose of selling us stuff. Broadcast companies are able to spend millions on 22 minutes of our favorite sitcom because advertisers are willing to pay them millions to show eight minutes of advertisements during the show. Some of the most memorable stories, characters, and moments of my life were made possible by Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, and Ford. And it works! Americans watch, on average, four hours of television every day (or about an hour of commercials every day). 
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Evolution of the senses
January 13th, 2011
Tasting colors, seeing sounds or have you heard of actually hearing color hues? It’s a reality for an estimated 1 in every 23 people. (more…)
GOOD DESIGN awards good design
January 11th, 2011
For 60 years the Chicago Athenaeum’s GOOD DESIGN program has been recognizing the best and most innovative industrial, product, and graphic designs produced around the world.
This year LUNAR was proud to take home three GOOD DESIGN awards for our work on the PASCO Scientific SPARK Scientific Learning System, the Intel Reader and the SanDisk Check Point Abra. 
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Navigating the obstacles of the design process
January 5th, 2011
What happens when you’re in the process of perfecting a design and you’re thrown a curveball? (more…)
Electric vehicles go mainstream
January 3rd, 2011
The 13 year old blogger
December 17th, 2010
How does a 13 year old blogger reach fifty thousand daily viewers?
I recently read in the New Yorker about Tavi Gevinson, a teenage fashion blogger from the suburbs of Chicago. I am sure a lot of people are very familiar with her by now, as she has the fashion world at her feet. 
What’s in a ring?
December 1st, 2010
Design is meant to surprise, delight, inspire, and provoke. It allows us to manifest a point of view and impact how people experience the world. To keep the poetic minds of our designers engaged we find it useful—necessary, in fact—to tease out the elemental powers of creative expression through conceptual exploration. (more…)
LUNAR’s Koo brings home an iF product design award
November 29th, 2010
Christmakwanzakah came early this year for the designers at LUNAR as the organizers of the International Forum Design announced the recipients of the 2011 iF product design awards. We are thrilled to announce that LUNAR’s Koo took home a win in the Advanced Studies category. (more…)
Oil on the Brain
November 29th, 2010
Almost everything in modern life is designed to waste energy. The biggest culprit is how we get to and from work. (more…)
