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a weblog and podcast by LUNAR, a full-service product development firm with offices in California, Hong Kong and Europe.
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“The design of LUNAR itself is our greatest achievement”

LUNAR COO Gerard Furbershaw and his “unique and expansive expression of design intelligence” received well-deserved recognition earlier this month when he was celebrated as the 2012 Unive...

2 days ago

Join LUNAR for our SF Design Week Open Studio Party

Celebrate San Francisco Design Week with a party at LUNAR June 13. This annual week-long celebration of design includes events highlighting the diversity and professionalism of the design community a...

3 days ago

Announcing the Robert Howard Next Step Award

Last summer we lost a dear colleague, Robert Howard, when he and his family died in a tragic roadway accident while on vacation in Canada. Many of LUNAR’s clients benefited from Robert’s ...

23 may 12

Junggi wins FastCo Porsche Challenge

High five! LUNAR’s Junggi Sung’s awesome design for a hair dryer has won Fast Company’s “Porsche Next Design Challenge.” Thanks for your votes in support of Junggi’...

21 may 12

A vote for Junggi is a vote for great design

LUNAR’s Junggi Sung’s awesome design for a hair dryer is one of seven finalists in Fast Company’s “Porsche Next Design Challenge.” Vote for Junggi’s design at Fast...

15 may 12

LUNAR hosts CCA student final critique

We love the fresh take on design that comes from students, especially those studying at one of our favorite schools — the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Last week, LUNAR hoste...

11 may 12

The bike that “looks like art”

Forbes calls VELA, LUNAR’s new concept cycle trainer, “a work of art” in a nice piece recently published. “Incredibly, it is an exercise bike,” Haydn Shaughnessy writes,...

10 may 12

Great design emotionally connects

Think like Apple, LUNAR Chicago chief Mark Dziersk told Kellogg School of Management students at “Design: The Ultimate Competitive Advantage,” and you’ll create powerful emotional c...

08 may 12

A “slicker and smarter” climbing wall

Fast Company this week features Nova, our new concept for a home climbing wall that reinvents home exercise. “Pro gear is out of place,” FastCo’s Belinda Lanks quotes LUNAR Europe. “...

03 may 12

UI me to the Moon

The Moon has always held a special place in our hearts. So we were especially jazzed to see WIRED magazine profiling a user-experience design class that’s being taught by LUNAR’s Shiz Kob...

23 apr 12

Exercise expressed as sculpture

If you’re seeking inspiration in advance of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (the Milan Furniture Fair), which starts April 17, consider a new approach to home exercise gear. VELA is a cycl...

13 apr 12

Green award for Green Toys

LUNAR has snagged a Green Dot award for our work with Green Toys in recognition of “excellence in innovative environmental projects, products and services.” LUNAR collaborated with Green ...

23 mar 12

Beautifying exercise

More than 200 German design pros, students, visitors from Korea and South Africa, and design enthusiasts immersed themselves in LUNAR’s vision for improving home exercise as part of the “Design...

12 mar 12

LUNAR designer Junggi Sung brings home iF Gold

We’re thrilled to announce that LUNAR’s Junggi Sung has won the prestigious iF Gold award for the design of his Elastine bottles. Junggi picked up his award at the iF Design Awards on Feb...

13 feb 12

A better way to exercise at home

How’s your exercise-more-at-home New Year’s resolution coming along? Is your training gear hidden in the closet and already collecting dust? LUNAR Europe is redefining the experience of e...

06 feb 12

The Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators

Ever since the industrial revolution, when it became possible for products to be designed just once and then mass produced, it has been the slight imperfections and wear introduced by human use that ...

17 jan 12

Join the tribe…watch the video

How are tribes disrupting traditional ways of building and maintaining your brand? What does Groupon get that Blockbuster doesn’t? There are new models of consumer attitudes and behaviors that ...

06 jan 12

LUNAR wishes you inspired holidays!

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20 dec 11

Architectural Guild honors LUNAR’s Gerard Furbershaw

We are beaming with pride this week following the news that LUNAR co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Gerard Furbershaw has been honored as the 2012 University of Southern California Architectural...

15 dec 11

Why shopping tech still disappoints

As the holiday shopping season rings in, CBS News asks, “Where are the cool new retail technologies?” They of course refer to the gadgets and interactive displays we see at trade shows an...

09 dec 11

A work space that reflects your brand

A workspace expresses who you are as a company as much as it serves as a functional place to get work done. So how do you create a space that reflects your brand? LUNAR relocated its San Francisco h...

06 dec 11

Nods from AIGA, SPARK and CORE77

We’re thrilled to share a couple of nice nods LUNAR has recently received. AIGA gave us a Cause/Effect “do-gooder” award for the “Positive Piece” website we developed fo...

18 nov 11

LUNAR opens Windy City office

We’re thrilled to announce the opening of LUNAR’s Chicago office in the epicenter for design in the Midwest — the Windy City’s River North area. Our new office puts us in the ...

09 nov 11

Better Mo-bility for urbanites

Too many noisy and polluting cars are choking urban streets. Alternatives to the single-occupancy auto are out there, but a user-centered transit ecosystem that brings all the pieces together may be ...

01 nov 11

After Steve Jobs: What we can learn from the Nest thermostat

The central question about Apple these days is what it will become without Steve Jobs’s passionate conviction and daily direction in the design of the company’s products and services. The...

29 oct 11

Catalyst Award for iconic Oral-B toothbrush goes to LUNAR

LUNAR was honored with IDSA’s 2011 Catalyst Award this year at the design industry’s annual conference in New Orleans earlier this month for our work on the Oral-B Crossaction toothbrush....

30 sep 11

Regulations = competitive advantage for Green Toys

LUNAR client Green Toys turned the tables on conventional anti-regulation thinking when co-founder Robert Von Goeben was interviewed on Fox Business’ “Making It In America.” “...

27 sep 11

homeConnect in the house at IFA 2011

Engadget got it. “You use your mobile device for pretty much everything these days, right? So why not the kitchen?” the tech blog wrote in their coverage of the LUNAR-designed tablet-base...

17 sep 11

LUNAR Palo Alto on the move

We’ve been so inspired by our new headquarters in San Francisco that we’re on a quest for new digs in Palo Alto – an important base for our work with clients on the Peninsula and in...

10 sep 11

Did I leave the oven on?

Experience Design makes interacting with appliances a pleasure It’s fascinating how our daily routines have changed in recent years, with many tasks made easier and more enjoyable by simple and cleve...

02 sep 11

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