Founded in 1984 by Jeff Smith, Gerard Furbershaw and
Robert Brunner, LUNAR (Lunar Design) is a
product design and development consultancy headquartered in the
San Francisco
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Bay Area. The company's provides industrial, interaction and communication design; video story telling, mechanical and electrical engineering, manufacturing support, user validation, design research, and need finding & assessment. Its current and past clients include Apple Inc., Abbott Labs,
Cisco Systems
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,
Hewlett-Packard,
Johnson & Johnson,
Microsoft
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,
Motorola
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, Philips,
Oral-B,
Palm,
Pepsi
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History
Pepsi was ...
and
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
. On May 14, 2015, Lunar was acquired by management consulting firm
McKinsey & Company
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.
Affiliates
LUNAR has offices in California, Chicago, and Europe (Munich, Germany). LUNAR Europe GmbH http://lunar-europe.com was founded in January, 2007 and is headed by Roman Gebhard and Matthis Hamann. The Chicago office was started in 2011 and is led by
Mark Dziersk.
Achievement and awards
LUNAR was one of the top five award-winning industrial design firms for over 10 years, according to BusinessWeek magazine. The firm has been recognized with accolades from the
Industrial Designers Society of America IDEA Awards, Fast Company "Innovation by Design" Awards, Core 77 Design Awards, CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards, iF Hannover Product Design Awards, and the ID Magazine Design Annual award, among others.
Two of LUNAR product designs for Oral-B and Philips were featured in the “Prototype to Product” exhibit in the United Airlines terminal at the
San Francisco International AirportSan Francisco Airport Museums
in 2007.
References
External links
Official Website
Industrial design firms
Companies based in San Francisco
Design companies of the United States
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