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CES RECAP
January 20, 2005: Lunar's Dan Senatore, Jonathan Downing, Max Yoshimoto have recovered from the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They share with John Edson their take on good and bad products featured at the show, design trends and after-hours fun.
And we announce the winner of our Senseo coffee maker!
THINKING ABOUT IMPACT
December 23, 2005: Chris Hazen and Dani Tsuda of WSP Environmental North America join Lunar's John Edson to talk about environmental aspects of sustainable design. Chris, Dani and John discuss recycling, materials and a responsible quest for more stuff. Listen, email us and and you could win a Senseo coffee maker.
Special mentions in this podcast:
Happy Holidays!
COFFEE-CAST
December 5, 2005: A design and engineering critique of coffee makers. Lunar designers Travis Lee, Lea Kobeli, Robert Howard and John Edson deconstruct four popular coffee-making products.
And, you could win a prize in our first ever podcast giveaway!
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KILLER APPS OVER BEERS
November 14, 2005: BusinessWeek's Bruce Nussbaum, Dev Patnaik, a principal of Jump Associates, Tom Dair, partner with Smart Design, and Lunar's John Edson talk about product design firms, the "killer app" in global competition, and Bruce's cell phone.
Recorded at "Design About: The Other Six Billion People," a conference sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America and Hewlett-Packard.
BUY A PRODUCT, GET A SERVICE
October 17, 2005: Will services ultimately replace products as objects continue to "disappear" into the background? Changes in telephone services and home photography may offer hints of what's to come.
Kim Goodwin, vice president of design and general manager at Cooper (a consultancy dedicated to conceiving and designing interactive products, services, and systems), joins Lunar's Christophe Koch, Joel Jacobs and John Edson in part two of a two-part discussion.
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PRODUCT
October 6, 2005: Technology makes it possible to put more and more functionality in smaller and smaller packages, but does that always benefit people? Will products eventually disappear altogether?
Kim Goodwin, vice president of design and general manager at Cooper (a consultancy dedicated to conceiving and designing interactive products, services, and systems), joins Lunar's Christophe Koch, Joel Jacobs and John Edson in part two of a two-part discussion.
Learn more about Lunar's MicroMedia Paper design exploration at BusinessWeek's website.
John Maeda's SIMPLICITY weblog is featured in this edition. SIMPLICITY is an experimental research program at the MIT Media Lab, focused on developing technologies for design—designs that are simpler to understand, easier to use, and, ultimately, more enjoyable.
A CONVERSATION WITH DWELL'S ALLISON ARIEFF
September 12, 2005: Dwell Magazine Editor-in-Chief Allison Arieff talks with Lunar Design's John Edson and Max Yoshimoto about housing design, Hurricane Katrina and "mass customization" in design.
Lunar Design joins Dwell Magazine in supporting Hurricane Katrina relief efforts undertaken by the American Red Cross and Architecture for Humanity.
Learn more about The Dwell Homes™ by Empyrean here.
PERSPECTIVES FROM IDSA 2005
September 2, 2005: Lunar Design President John Edson shares perspectives from design leaders attending the 2005 Industrial Designers Society of America National Conference August 24-27. Guests include Sam Lucente, brand design and experience director for HP, and Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
Ellen Lupton's website (referenced in this podcast) is www.design-your-life.org.
TOP OF MIND: OUR FAVORITE NEW PRODUCTS
August 22, 2005: Lunar's Joel Jacobs, Max Yoshimoto and John Edson talk about recent products that have caught their fancy.
What products do you love (or hate)? Email us.
BACK TO THE FUTURE: WHAT'S UP WITH "RETRO" DESIGN?
August 10, 2005: What's behind "retro" design? Why is it so popular? Lunar's Alberto Villarreal, Joel Jacobs, Max Yoshimoto and John Edson debate the good and the bad of retro design.
SIMPLE DESIGN: THE SIMPLICITY MOVEMENT
AND ITS IMPACT ON PRODUCT DESIGN
August 1, 2005: Max Yoshimoto, VP of Design, and Christophe Koch, senior designer at Lunar, explore the cultural trend of simplicity and how the movement has impacted product design in the U.S. and abroad. Moderated by Lunar President John Edson.
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