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 ‘Industrial Design’ Category
Eames x IBM Exhibition
May 13th, 2011
LUNAR Palo Alto will be hosting the THINK: Communicating Technology exhibition starting on May 20th. (more…)
Going solo
April 26th, 2011
Going solo is a term mountaineers use to describe climbing alone. In my presentation at the IDSA event at Long Beach State University, I will be using that term to describe design entrepreneurship. (more…)
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…)
Sai Tung, please!
February 4th, 2011
Here in the States, we easily think of America as the Land of Food to Go. We have the drive through, the Big Gulp and Starbuck’s lattes with cup cozies. But to walk down my home streets of Bangkok, Thailand is to see the mecca of street food and the hundreds of inventive ways it can be carried. 
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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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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. 
Designing Fujitsu’s first series of LED-based professional displays
December 3rd, 2010
LUNAR Europe’s recent design work for Fujitsu makes use of new LED technology, its efficiency and opportunities in component size greatly informing the design of this series of business monitors. (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…)
Packing for Mars
October 26th, 2010
Humans need a few basic things to survive – air, water, food, heat, shelter – but just surviving isn’t really enough. We also need familiarity, a little comfort, interaction, a small place of our own. (more…)
Designing the Future of TV
October 19th, 2010
TV has been in a constant state of change in recent years, but the home invasion of VCRs and DVDs pales in comparison to the rate of change today. As ever-increasing options are available to consumers, how should companies decide what to design and build next? (more…)
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Invisible Iron
October 18th, 2010
At LUNAR, our designers are continually fascinated by the inherent, but often hidden and overlooked, beauty in everyday objects.
99% reality
October 18th, 2010
There’s not much that we can do about all the physical matter that’s been designed and built by someone else. But with the advent of portable devices with GPS, a compass, and a network, we can now design a layer on top of the real world that can contain all kinds of new information, ideas and experiences. (more…)
To simply work well…
October 11th, 2010
It’s a stick with bristles poking out of it. But the careful thought and design that went into LUNAR’s design of the modern, angled bristle, fat handled toothbrush shows just how much brainpower goes into something that is designed to simply work well and not be noticed all that much (until it’s time to buy the next one).
LUNAR’s John Edson talks about the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush in 99% Invisible, a new podcast from San Francisco’s KALW Radio that looks at the power and process of design.
(Full disclosure: LUNAR is helping underwrite 99% Invisible.)
