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Solutions
Nathan Shedroff on Sustainable Design

Nathan Shedroff, author, academic and entrepreneur, presents at the Digging Deeper sustainable design conference held in late July in San Francisco. (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.)

The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.


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Françoise Serralta on Sustainable Design

Françoise Serralta, strategic research and planning director with PeclersParis, presents at the Digging Deeper sustainable design conference held in late July in San Francisco. (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.)

The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.


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Back to School

Lunar engineers Robert Howard, Matt Peterson and Dan Senatore discuss the attributes job candidates should present when applying for any kind of creative career opportunity.

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Connections
It's the customer economy, stupid

Icon-o-Cast co-hosts Gretchen Anderson and Lisa Leckie dig into how the economy is affecting the customer experience.

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Joep Meijer of theRightenvironment presenting at "Digging Deeper"

Joep Meijer, founder and president of theRightenvironment, talks about models for sustainable design at the Industrial Design Society of America's Digging Deeper event in San Francisco July 22, 2008. (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.)

The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.


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RECENT PODCASTS

Solutions
Engineering the Illumina iScan

Lunar engineers Robert Howard and Matt Durack discuss the product-development process and challenges associated with creating the Illumina iScan -- a sophisticated biotechnology instrument -- for long-time client Illumina.

How do engineers and designers juggle the requirements of customers, manufacturers, marketing and service technicians in a context of fierce competition, development calendars, technology risks and other considerations? Listen and learn.

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Travis Lee of Lunar presenting at "Digging Deeper"

Lunar's Travis Lee speaking on sustainable design at the Industrial Design Society of America's Digging Deeper event in San Francisco July 22, 2008, outlines an approach for how designers can think about building sustainable design principles into their product work. about sustainable design. (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.)

The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.




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Alexander Rose of The Long Now Foundation presenting at "Digging Deeper"

Alexander Rose of the Long Now Foundation presents at the Industrial Design Society of America's Digging Deeper event about sustainable design (July 22 in SF). (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.)

The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.




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Solutions

Perspectives from "Digging Deeper" Presenters

Lunar's John Edson interviews presenters and other sustainability experts at the Industrial Design Society of America's Digging Deeper event (July 22 in SF). Guests include Alexander Roe, Nathan Shedroff, Françoise Serralta, Travis Lee, Joep Meijer, Joe Gebbia, Mike Zuckerman and Charlie Sheldon.

The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.

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