Lunar Design

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Lunar Design is a product design and development consultancy based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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[edit] History

Lunar was founded in 1984 by Jeff Smith, Gerard Furbershaw and Robert Bruner. Capabilities include product and package design, engineering, strategic design, interaction design, and medical engineering and design. Lunar’s current and past clients include Apple Inc., Abbott Labs, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson,Microsoft, Motorola, Philips, Oral-B, Palm, Pepsi and Sony.

[edit] Affiliates

Lunar has offices in California (Palo Alto and San Francisco), Hong Kong, and Europe (Munich, Germany). Lunar Europe was founded in January, 2007 and is headed by Roman Gebhard and Matthis Hamann.

[edit] Achievement and Awards

Lunar has been consistently among the top five award-winning industrial design firms for over 10 years, according to BusinessWeek magazine.[1] The firm has been recognized with accolades from the BusinessWeek/Industrial Designs Society of America Industrial Design Excellence Award, the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award, and the ID Magazine Design Annual award, among others.

Two of Lunar Design's products for Oral-B and Philips are currently featured in the “Prototype to Product” exhibit in the United Airlines terminal at the San Francisco International Airport.[2] The exhibition will run until January 1, 2008.

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