Breadth
I was fortunate to design and ship a multitude of products and lead many of Lunar’s programs. The clients varied from startups to Fortune 100. The work cut across product categories, people partnerships, product strategies, brand exercises, size of projects (both physical and financial) and business building for both Clients and Lunar itself.
The consumers we designed for, designed with, and learned from was a direct reflection of the range of products we worked on.
Of course, there was the classic design work to be done. Get ready for some throwback design! 1988 - 2006
Coherent Industry's 1st Mobile Laser 1992
Silicon Graphics O2 Desktop workstation 1996
Abbott Laboratories Blood Analysis 1993
Philips Velo 1 Windows CE PDA 1997
Lunar SF 1997
Lunar SF 1997
HP Pavilion First in a series of many Home PCs 1998
Xootr first over sized wheel scooter 1999
Sony Entertainment monitor Speakers were costed out So we improvised 1999
Palm m100 their first consumer product 2000
Palm m100 Always on Display Almost!
Oral-B Cross Action $4.99 then $4.99 today 2000
Oral-B Cross Action Shipping in 2023 The original was sans flash!
Polariod The original selfie Concept
Polariod
Optimize Surgical eye ware with HUD and Audio 2001
Puma 2002
Media Paper E-ink postcards reuseable, tactile, nostalgic
Glass Favorite pairings 2002
Living Lights Friendly comfort
Everyone was a DJ So I had to give it a go Sometime in 2000
Mentors and partners in design
My growth and success at Lunar was accomplished with many discussions full of wisdom with the folks below.
They made the difference, thank you for the guidance!
Sorted reverse alpha.
Ken Wood | Director of ID
Jeff Smith | Co-Founder Lunar Design
Brett Lovelady | Founder Astro Studios
Gerard Furbershaw | Co-Founder Lunar Design
Bill Evans | VP Product Management Neptune Medical
Robert Brunner | Co-Founder Lunar Design | Founder Ammunition
Kristen Bailey | Kris Bailey Consulting, Marketing
The next generation of Leaders
This may be the thing I’m most proud of.
I’m happy to see that many of the people I brought to Lunar have flourished in their careers. Working and learning together, watching our projects come to fruition and then seeing these individuals thrive in their post Lunar careers is a great sight.
People truly make the difference, thank you for your energy and being present with your point of view. Here are of folks and their current roles I had the privilege to work with.
Sorted reverse alpha as I know what it feels like to always go last!
Glenn Wong | Creative Director HP
Alberto Villarreal | Director of Design at Tonal
Tad Toulis | VP Design Sonos
Jeff Salazar | Partner McKinsey Design
Sandrine Lebas | Chair California College of the Arts
Jon Harris | VP Design Microsoft
Roman Gebhart | Co-Founder Fluid GmbH
Maaike Evers | Co-Founder Mike & Maaike
Pierre Yves Dubois | Creative Director Scott Sports
Nicolas Denhez | Director ID Microsoft
Yves Behar | Founder Fuseproject
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design
Charles Eames
There were lots of “needs” in Silicon Valley.
Lunar highlights:
1984-2006
18 Years: joined as a Designer, finished as VP of Design.
Design:
Business Week/IDSA top 10 design firms for multiple years in a row.
HP Pavilion: HP’s first true Home PC.
Oral B CrossAction: produced in 2000, still shipping today.
Palm m100: First consumer designed hand held.
Business:
Designing and working in the Silicon Valley startup culture at its heyday.
moonshine: Creation of a product and experience invention think tank.
Open and managed Lunar SF.
Great people: collaboration and growth.
Photo credit: Jeff Fan