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What’s in a ring?

December 1st, 2010

Design is meant to surprise, delight, inspire, and provoke. It allows us to manifest a point of view and impact how people experience the world. To keep the poetic minds of our designers engaged we find it useful—necessary, in fact—to tease out the elemental powers of creative expression through conceptual exploration. (more…)

Posted: December 1, 2010 at 4:49 pm in Creativity, Expressions, Meaning, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

Invisible Iron

October 18th, 2010

At LUNAR, our designers are continually fascinated by the inherent, but often hidden and overlooked, beauty in everyday objects.

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Posted: October 18, 2010 at 5:55 pm in Connections, Creativity, Expressions, Industrial Design, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

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.

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(Full disclosure: LUNAR is helping underwrite 99% Invisible.)

Posted: October 11, 2010 at 5:31 pm in Creativity, Industrial Design, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

Creativity on the fly

October 7th, 2010

The 2010 Cut&Paste competition is coming to San Francisco tomorrow for its fourth installment of the one-of-a-kind digital design tournament. And this year LUNAR’s John Edson will be joining the 3D jury (more…)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 6:30 pm in Creativity, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

Gesture Remote

September 20th, 2010

As designers we often feel honored working at the forefront of design–using customer insights and new technologies to define products that pioneer new, exciting experiences. Gestural interaction technology is one of these game-changers. We see its ascent and are proud to be one of the lucky teams that will help shape the future of gesture controlled devices. (more…)

Posted: September 20, 2010 at 3:47 pm in Connections, Creativity, Innovation, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

We did it ourselves

August 10th, 2010

We are fresh back from Portland, OR, where a team of LUNAR folks attended the IDSA International conference. We’ve got some impressions from the conference that we’ll be sharing shortly, along with the winners of our DIY design contest, but first we wanted to share with you our own DIY project.

LUNAR at IDSA

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Posted: August 10, 2010 at 5:50 am in Expressions, Industrial Design, Meaning, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

Thought for Food: LUNAR’s DIY Food Container Design Contest at the IDSA International Conference

July 26th, 2010

Calling all students attending the 2010 IDSA International Conference in Portland, OR: you’ve got a chance to win your very own fully loaded 64GB 3G iPad! Show us your creative chops. (more…)

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Posted: July 26, 2010 at 2:05 pm in Connections, Creativity, Customer Experience, Education, Industrial Design, Innovation, Meaning, Process, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

LUNAR designed Ventus PROVENT Sleep Apnea Therapy wins Gold IDEA

June 25th, 2010

LUNAR is pleased to announce that PROVENT has been honored with a Gold International Design Excellence Award. (more…)

Posted: June 25, 2010 at 4:05 pm in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

SXSW 2010: No Touching! Truly Invisible Interfaces

March 12th, 2010

Our devices know which way we’re moving and how dark it is outside. They look us in the face with cameras while we’re tweeting away. (more…)

Posted: March 12, 2010 at 6:39 pm in Connections, Education, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

New Year, New Look, Let’s Party

January 19th, 2010

LUNAR is proud to announce our involvement in the redesign of the Palo Alto Public Art Commission’s identity. (more…)

Posted: January 19, 2010 at 10:12 pm in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

3D CSS FTW!

December 22nd, 2009

Now that we can hack 3D in lowly web technology, (more…)

Posted: December 22, 2009 at 9:14 am in Customer Experience, Innovation, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

Let’s Get Physical

November 2nd, 2009

A Solutions Icon-o-Cast

In this Icon-o-Cast video, LUNAR’s director of interaction design, shares insights into how to develop an effective set of product “facial features” — those signals that tell users what a product does. (more…)

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Posted: November 2, 2009 at 10:08 am in Icon-o-Cast, Solutions, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

Odosketch

September 10th, 2009

Odosketch is an on-line sketching GUI created by Odopod, a digital agency, that lets you create drawings in a nice pastel watercolor style. (more…)

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 6:52 am in Creativity, Customer Experience, Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

Simple, minimal, humble.

July 9th, 2009

The family computer died last month.

No tears, she made it to the ripe old age of 7 (70 in PC years). But now that we have a real processor in the living room, I can finally “Watch Instantly” on Netflix. (more…)

Posted: July 9, 2009 at 5:09 pm in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback

Sustainable design workshop with Taiwan Design Center

July 3rd, 2009

After a very successful workshop with the Korean Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP) a few weeks ago, we’re jumping right back in for a second round! (more…)

Posted: July 3, 2009 at 8:07 am in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback