LUNAR Chicago’s Managing Director Mark Dziersk shares his insights into the career paths of successful designers at a meet-up at 750 North Franklin #201 in Chicago this Friday, 6:30 pm. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
In Chicago? Explore career paths for successful designers with LUNAR’s Mark Dziersk this Friday
August 24th, 2011
7 Years In: Lessons Learned as a Product Design Engineer
May 16th, 2011
I’ve been a mechanical engineer at Lunar for almost 7 years, as well as a project manager and the ME intern coordinator for a good portion of that time. I’ve had the opportunity to work with a number of interesting clients, coworkers, and products. They range from large corporations to small startups, hot-heads to introverts, consumer to medical to unclassifiable, parts as big as a monster truck wheel to those you can barely see. And since that magical summer of 2004, some things have continued to ring true. (more…)
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…)
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…)
Thought for Food: LUNAR’s DIY Food Container Design Contest at the IDSA International Conference
July 26th, 2010
Calling all students attending the 2010 IDSA International Conference in Portland, OR: you’ve got a chance to win your very own fully loaded 64GB 3G iPad! Show us your creative chops. (more…)
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From a little place called Dyslexia…
July 21st, 2010
LUNAR’s client Ben Foss, gives an inspiring and hilarious speech about being dyslexic and the need to change the way we think about it. (more…)
KIDP + LUNAR UX Design Workshop ‘10
March 16th, 2010
Public transportation. Sigh. While those hailing from Los Angeles would argue that “at least we have public transportation,” the rest of us have our fair share of gripes with the system here in San Francisco. (more…)
SXSW 2010: No Touching! Truly Invisible Interfaces
March 12th, 2010
Our devices know which way we’re moving and how dark it is outside. They look us in the face with cameras while we’re tweeting away. (more…)
The Importance of Facial Features
January 28th, 2010
Gretchen Anderson is speaking at the sold out IxDA conference Interaction ’10 (more…)
Design Education at the Nueva School
November 25th, 2009
A Solutions Icon-o-Cast
In this Icon-o-Cast video, LUNAR’s Robert Howard discusses design education and “design thinking” with Kim Howard-Saxe, director of the Innovation Lab at the Nueva School. Recorded at the Maker Faire 2009. (more…)
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