Icon-o-cast: A Podcast By Lunar

Chad Jennings of Blurb, Gretchen Anderson and Lisa Leckie discuss the new era of "People Powered Products". iconocast.typepad.com

Lunar founder Jeff Smith and Lunar president John Edson discuss an Expressions process used to "emotionalize" products. www.lunar.com

Lunar engineers Robert Howard, Jonathan Downing and Wenson Chern take apart two toy helicopters to examine their engineering designs. Watch the video or play/download an audio version.

Lunar's Gretchen Anderson and independent researcher Lisa Leckie discuss how soft research and ethnographic studies affect design.

Cognitive scientist and usability expert Don Norman returns to Icon-o-Cast, joining John Edson and Gretchen Anderson in a Connections segment for a wide-ranging discussion about the design of future things. They also talk about what's right and wrong with TiVo, airlines, Jott, reQall, cell phones and online map services. Business Week calls Don a “cantankerous visionary” for a reason.

Can innovation be taught or is it embedded in creativity? How is India becoming an innovator in the world of outsourcing? IdeaFarms CEO Sunil Malhotra discusses innovation and India with Lunar's John Edson.

In this special edition of Icon-o-Cast -- available in multiple video formats and in audio MP3 -- Jeff Smith, CEO of Lunar, and Nirmal Sethia, Director of the Center for Business and Design at Cal Poly Pomona, present a new way of thinking about the challenges of sustainable design. Includes considerations for businesses, designers and consumers.

Is there a future for magazines? Magazine Editor Andreas Wrede and Lunar's John Edson discuss creating a new publication and sources of inspiration in the creative process.

Lunar's Jeff Smith and Cal Poly Pomona Professor Nirmal Sethia introduce a new model for sustainable design and consumption.

Lunar's John Edson, Andrew Zee and Robert Howard respond to listener feedback and discuss working globally, job titles and process www.lunar.com | podcast@lunar.com

Members of the Lunar Team share some of their favorite gifts of the holiday season.

Lunar's John Edson and Gretchen Anderson explore the mysteries and wonder of Interaction Design. podcast@lunar.com www.lunar.com

Lunar's John Edson and Zoe Corneli talk with designers attending the Connecting'07 conference in San Francisco about sustainable design, creating environmentally friendly products and using design to make a difference.

Leaders from the San Francisco chapter of the Industrial Design Society of America discuss a new museum exhibit at San Francisco International Airport: "Prototype to Product: Thirty-three Projects from the Bay Area Design Community."

Lunar's John Edson answers questions from listeners about design process, materials, portfolios and more.

Paul Jamtgaard and Alberto Villarreal join John Edson to discuss Pecha Kucha, a free ongoing showcase of designers' work | podcast@lunar.com | www.lunar.com

Lunar's Becky Brown and John Edson talk about their recent visit to the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milan Furniture Fair), special guests join in via John's handy digital recorder, and visit www.lunar.com/podcast to see pics.

Lunar's Robert Howard and Matt Durack talk with John Edson about the challenges associated with a recent medical device project for Novint and the creative process.

Can designers create great products that don't hurt Planet Earth? Lunar's Scot Herbst and Travis Lee say "yes" by following a simple set of principles for sustainable design. Scot and Travis share their insights with John Edson.

Lunar's user-experience expert Gretchen Anderson talks with John Edson about using digital music players, including the Microsoft Zune, SanDisk Sansa e200 and, of course, the Apple iPod. Their conversation also explores simplicity, feature sets and creating a great product experience.