Founded by award-winning designers Roman Gebhard and Matthis Hamann, Lunar Europe combines two decades of proven design practice with the fresh ideas of a new team. Roman and Matthis are native Germans who have spent time abroad developing their unique perspectives on product design, design strategy and how design creativity makes a difference for consumers and business.

Roman has held positions at international design consultancies such as Modus Design in Stuttgart, Lunar in California, frog design in New York and designafairs/Siemens in Munich. At these posts, Roman directed and particpated in award-winning design programs for clients like Sony, Siemens, Microsoft, HP, Motorola, LG Electronics, GE, Proctor & Gamble, Coca Cola, Xelibri and T-Mobile.

In 2001 he co-founded the American design collective designRAW and in 2005 the German group dialog05 to explore design on a more conceptual and idea-driven level. He has taught several design work- shops at the Design University in Lund, Sweden and holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in product design from Art Center College of Design (Europe) in Switzerland.

Matthis has worked with international design consultancies such as IDEO in Boston and Philips Design in the Netherlands. While at designafairs in Munich, he held a range of positions including design manager for Siemens Mobile and Xelibri, and director of strategy & consulting.

He directed and participated in several design programs for international clients such as Mercedes Benz, Philips, Siemens, Xelibri, and Audi. He taught design classes at the Design Academy Offenbach (Germany) and at the University of Applied Science in Munich.