Robert Brunner received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Design from San José State University in 1981. After working as a designer and project manager at several high technology companies, he founded Lunar Design in 1984. In 1989, Robert accepted the position of Director of Industrial Design at Apple Computer, where he provided design and direction for all Apple product lines, most notably the PowerBook. He was succeeded by Jonathan Ive in 1997. He claims that while with Apple he hired Ive thrice.
In January 1996 he became a partner in the San Francisco office of Pentagram.
Robert leads a design team, Ammunition LLC, offering product, identity and interaction design and strategy consulting to many U.S. and international clients. Their strength is creating design ideas that not only work as objects but also meet the market objectives of an organization or business unit. In 2008, Creative Director Brett Wickens, and Band Strategist Matt Rolandson joined Ammunition LLC as partners. Both were former leaders at MetaDesign.
Robert's work has been widely published in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. His product designs have won 23 IDSA Awards from the Industrial Designers Society of America and Business Week, including 6 best of category awards. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in both New York and San Francisco.
Robert Brunner's products tend to inspire that kind of devotion. Just look at his pedigree: as director of industrial design at Apple in 1989, he founded the Apple Industrial Design Group. He and his team developed the original Macintosh PowerBook, Newton and 20th Anniversary Mac. Oh, yes. He also was the guy who hired Johnny Ive--a distinction, he laughs, that will likely be written on his tombstone.
Most recently, Brunner's been working with clean-tech accelerator Noribachi to start a new company, Regen, which will soon unveil a slew of products powered by light. From the renderings I've seen, they're nothing like your father's solar-powered gear.
Brunners Current Design Work
The Element Grill for Fuego.
Beats Headphones
The Acme P2 pen:
Simplified mobile phones for Sprint:
PC Concept for Microsoft:
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