Icon-o-cast: A Podcast By Lunar

In this episode, Icon-o-Cast mom-to-be Lisa Leckie, new mom Gretchen Anderson and experienced mom Sandrine Lebas talk about the decisions new moms make as they struggle with seemingly infinite product choices and apply their personal values to the experience of motherhood.

The architecture and construction world is years ahead of product design in terms of creating understanding, standards, alternative design solutions and the economic arguements for the value of sustainable design. In this Earth Day Special, Lunar's Gretchen Anderson talks with green building expert Elaine Hsieh of KEMA about how building industries have embraced sustainable practices since the first Earth Day.

Computer game design is changing as games become more of a platform for play, creativity and collaboration and not just a challenge of skill and reasoning. Lunar's Gretchen Anderson talks with Mike Khoury, a game designer at Maxis Software and contributor to the hot new game Spore, about changing approaches to designing the gaming experience and some surprising ways Spore's fans have taken the game in new directions.

The world's great museums have attractions that capture the imagination of visitors. The very best museums also design their experiences to connect with visitors in ways that may not always be readily apparent. In this episode, Lisa Dunmeyer, project manager with BBI Engineering, talks with Lunar's Gretchen Anderson and Lisa Leckie about how visitors are connecting with the newly redesigned California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. BBI Engineering of San Francisco served as primary integrator of the audiovisual design within the new Cal Academy.

What makes a great service? How can designers influence the experience customers have with grocery stores, airlines and car rental agencies? Jennifer Bove of Kicker Studio and Ben Fullerton of IDEO talk with Gretchen Anderson about service design.

How do we orient creativity in the service of business stakeholders? How does design create benefits for top-line growth and bottom-line profitability? In this Icon-o-Cast episode, Lunar's John Edson chats with innovation guru Larry Keeley of the Doblin Group about the practice of innovation in design, its role in today's economic environment and perspectives on how innovation may have contributed to our current predicaments. Larry is an innovation strategist, professor at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology and president of The Doblin Group, an innovation strategy firm based in Chicago.

Lunar's TBA (Think, Behold and Act) project is an exploration into the elemental powers of creative expression. In this Icon-o-Cast episode, Lunar Creative Director Ken Wood (who led the "Think" exploration) discusses with Lunar's Jeff Smith and John Edson a collection of chair concepts that respond to common habits of daily living, generally considered to be bad habits.

The Icon-o-Cast team (John Edson, Gretchen Anderson, Lisa Leckie, Robert Howard and Jeff Smith) celebrate the holidays with thoughts on what makes a great gift. And it's not just wheels!

IDEO's Ted Howes presents at the Digging Deeper sustainable design conference held in late July in San Francisco. The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.

How do speed, creativity and innovation intertwine in the design process? In this Connections episode, Gretchen Anderson and Lisa Leckie talk with Steve Portigal of Portigal Consulting about getting results through design research. www.icon-o-cast.com www.portigal.com

Nathan Shedroff, author, academic and entrepreneur, presents at the Digging Deeper sustainable design conference held in late July in San Francisco. (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.)

Francoise Serralta, strategic research and planning director with PeclersParis, presents at the Digging Deeper sustainable design conference held in late July in San Francisco. (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.) The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.

Lunar engineers Robert Howard, Matt Peterson and Dan Senatore discuss the attributes job candidates should present when applying for any kind of creative career opportunity.

Icon-o-Cast co-hosts Gretchen Anderson and Lisa Leckie dig into how the economy is affecting the customer experience.

Joep Meijer, founder and president of theRightenvironment, talks about models for sustainable design at the Industrial Design Society of America's Digging Deeper event in San Francisco July 22, 2008. (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.) The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.

Lunar engineers Robert Howard and Matt Durack discuss the product-development process and challenges associated with creating the Illumina iScan -- a sophisticated biotechnology instrument -- for long-time client Illumina. How do engineers and designers juggle the requirements of customers, manufacturers, marketing and service technicians in a context of fierce competition, development calendars, technology risks and other considerations? Listen and learn.

Lunar's Travis Lee speaking on sustainable design at the Industrial Design Society of America's Digging Deeper event in San Francisco July 22, 2008, outlines an approach for how designers can think about building sustainable design principles into their product work. about sustainable design. (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.) The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.

Alexander Rose of the Long Now Foundation presents at the Industrial Design Society of America's Digging Deeper event about sustainable design (July 22 in SF). (Prefaced with a short interview by Lunar's John Edson.) The evening panel discussion dug deep into the eco-issues designers face everyday to reveal building blocks for sustainable design.

Lunar's John Edson interviews presenters and other sustainability experts at the Industrial Design Society of America's Digging Deeper event (July 22 in SF). Guests include Alexander Roe, Nathan Shedroff, Françoise Serralta, Travis Lee, Joep Meijer, Joe Gebbia, Mike Zuckerman and Charlie Sheldon.

Charlie Sheldon, president of San Francisco chapter of the Industrial Design Society of America, and Lunar's John Edson, talk about the Digging Deeper conference and next steps in the sustainable design movement.