Lunar Design

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 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, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Motorola, Philips, Oral-B,[1] Palm, Pepsi and Sony. On May 14, 2015, Lunar was acquired by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.[2][3]

Lunar Design partnered with Nova Cruz to design and develop the Xootr Scooter.[4]

  1. ^ Forsey, Jane (2016-02-15). The Aesthetics of Design. Oxford University Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-19-060042-6.
  2. ^ "Consulting Giant McKinsey Buys Itself a Top Design Firm". Wired. 2015-05-14. Archived from the original on 2023-04-29.
  3. ^ "McKinsey acquires design firm Lunar for digital transformation". ZDNET. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
  4. ^ America, Industrial Designers Society of (2001). Design Secrets: 50 Real-life Projects Uncovered. Products. Rockport. ISBN 978-1-56496-638-4.