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Lunar Announces Elements, a Sustainable Design Initiative
This extension of LUNAR’s design and engineering teams designed to lessen the impact of products on our ecosystem. Learn more. |
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Modu Taps Lunar to Create Distinctive and Fashionable Designs for Paradigm-Shifting Mobile Phone Design
Lunar has collaborated with the latest innovator in the mobile phone industry, modu, to lead the design of the world's first modular mobile phone. Learn more.
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Lunar's Orbit newsletter: Winter 2007
The latest from Lunar Design. Read more.
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Leading Design Strategist Lunar Design and Innovator Philm Rethink USB Flash Drives
Lunar and Philm are collaborating to create premium value from the conventional USB flash drive. By combining proprietary content and best-in-class partners, Philm transforms conventional USB flash drives into a premium solution for leading companies interested in connecting powerfully with their customers. Learn more.
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Lunar Design Creates Success from Simplicity
Lunar developed a targeted brand identity for Ayala’s Herbal Water, a premium beverage created for the health and wellness-conscious market. Learn more.
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Lunar's Orbit newsletter: Summer 2007
The latest from Lunar Design. Read more.
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Directing Design to Make a Difference
Lunar’s John Edson teams up with the Business Marketing Association of Northern California to lead a roundtable discussion on “Directing Design to Make a Difference.” Monday, May 21, 2007. Learn more.
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Lunar Design Partners with Novint Technologies and Force Dimension to Introduce the Novint Falcon – Limited Edition Falcon Bundle Available June 18th, 2007
CES Innovation Honoree, the Novint Falcon, a high-fidelity, three dimensional interactive touch device for the home PC launches this summer. Read more.
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Lunar Designs the Sleek and Stylish Cruzer Contour, SanDisk’s Cornerstone USB Flash Drive
Personal luxury accessory has a smooth black, glossy ceramic design and innovative sliding USB connector that retracts into the body. Read more.
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Lunar Design Supports Public Dialogue and Modern Art
Lunar co-sponsors KQED Member’s Day at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif. Read more.
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BusinessWeek: A Preview of the Milan Design Fair
Lunar’s John Edson comments on the growing attraction of the Milan Furniture Fair, particularly for those who aren’t involved in the furniture business at all. Read more.
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The Portable Workplace
Metropolis Magazine asked four industrial design firms to imagine what a portable workspace might look like for a global traveler. Lunar came up with the “Nomad,” which “eliminates the angst surrounding the tools of modern work.” Read more.
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Lunar Announces CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards for Client Work
Four of Lunar's clients won CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show. Lunar client SanDisk also introduced the sleek Cruzer Contour at CES. Read more.
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Lunar Announces Gretchen Anderson to Lead Interaction Design Group
Lunar announces the addition of Gretchen Anderson to its team of creative industrial designers, graphic designers and engineers. Gretchen will be Lunar’s director of interaction design. Read more.
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Apple Sets the Design Standard
"Apple is definitely setting the standard for product design today," says John Edson, president of Lunar Design, in the Jan. 8, 2007, edition of BusinessWeek. "We're being asked to create wonderful products like the iPod. It's still rare, though, that an organization has the force of will to make a product like this happen." Read more.
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The Top Design Houses
PC Magazine takes an inside look at the people and companies behind the most innovative tech products of today. Lunar is highlighted as the "realist," combining engineering and design to bring concepts to fruition as market-ready products. Read more.
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Lunar Design Wraps HP Notebook Surfaces With Graphic Luxury
HP Asks Lunar to Get Personal with the Graphic Aesthetic for Their Fashion Forward Line of HP Notebooks. Read more.
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Unveiling the Creativity Behind the Scenes of Design
Lunar Announces a New Format for Icon-o-Cast. Read more.
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Strategic Direction: "Getting by with a little help from their friends: Innovation at Lunar Design and Proctor & Gamble"
Lunar is big on imagination and innovation. Then again, it has to be. Many of its new and
established clients operate within high-speed industries where technology’s unrelenting
progress ensures that product life cycles are invariably short lived. Against this background
of perpetual change, success depends on being able to identify developments before they
actually take root.
Strategic Direction is an online journal that serves as an in depth and
up-to-date business strategy and management information resource. Read the PDF.
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BusinessWeek: "Haptic Days to Come?"
Novint Technologies faced a huge design challenge: how to transform a high-end device into a mainstream one, retaining the functionality and easy-to-use form factor as well as driving down the cost. They enlisted Lunar Design, the Palo Alto (Calif.) company whose clients include Apple, Hewlett-Packard , Microsoft, Motorola, Palm, Pepsi, and Sony. "Functionality drove the final look of the Falcon," says Jeff Smith, chief executive of Lunar. "This is a mechanical device, after all. We designed with the idea that the sense of touch is more important than even the aesthetics of the controller." Read online. Read the PDF.
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Lunar Design Partners With Novint Technologies and Force Dimension to Introduce The Novint Falcon
Lunar spearheaded the industrial design and engineering to help bring this innovative product to the gaming market. Read more.
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Lunar Design Is Recognized With Silver and Bronze 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)
SanDisk Ultra II SD Plus and The Accuray Next Generation Cyberknife Robotic Radiosurgery System Win In Two Categories. Read more.
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MAD with Design at The Art Center
Lunar Design Co-Founder Jeff Smith introduces a DesignConnectSeries course at The Art Center College Of Design: MAD with Design: Making A Difference to Your Technology- or Product-Based Venture. Read more.
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Cool Product Expo April 26, 2006
Lunar was once again an exhibitor at the annual Cool Product Expo at Stanford University April 26. The Expo is designed to generate interest in and excitement around "cool" products and companies in the field of manufacturing and design among the GSB, and the Stanford and local communities at large.
The Cool Products Expo is sponsored by the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing and the Product Design Club at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Read more. |
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What Will They Think of Next?
Azure Magazine, March/April 2006
Lunar Design has been named as one of the most innovative industrial design firms in North America by Azure Magazine. Lunar’s design for the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush and MicroMedia Paper are among the most notable products. Focusing on process and content, Azure praises those designers who keep their designs down to earth without sacrificing creativity. |
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Technology for Leisure
Arquitectura Y Diseño, February 2006
In its piece on technology that enhances our enjoyment of leisure time, Spanish magazine Arquitectura y Diseño shines the spotlight on Lunar Design.
For kids, Lunar has envisioned the Tortugo. With a DVD player, photo camera, and a drawing tablet the Tortugo is sure to keep the kids entertained while traveling. And for consumers of all ages Lunar’s MicroMedia Paper concept will, in the next 10 years, incorporate audio and video into a paper-thin digital postcard. |
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The ID Forty
ID Magazine, January 2006
The January issue of ID takes a look at 40 designers who are making big waves in the design world and deserve some attention. Max Yoshimoto, Lunar’s vice president of design, is one such designer regarded for his innovative creativity and stellar leadership in the field. |
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20 Designers, 10 Questions
Innovation Magazine, Winter 2005
Innovation asked 20 designers to answer 10 questions ranging from their predictions about the future of design to what is playing on their iPod. The issue features Jeff Salazar, Lunar’s director of design. |
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