How Design Drives The World's Best Companies w/ Robert Brunner
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Robert Brunner. If you look up “badass industrial designer” in the dictionary, the first thing you’re going to see is his picture. He’s the co-founder + partner of Ammunition Design Group, one of the top industrial design agencies in the world with clients including Lyft, Adobe, Microsoft, AIGA, and so many more. He lead the design of the widely popular Beats brand and built the design practice at Apple - he’s actually the guy who hired the legendary Jony Ive, now Apple’s Chief Design Officer - and he’s a former partner at the legendary firm Pentagram and co-founder of Lunar Design, one of the firms who put design on the map in the Bay Area back in the 80s and 90s.
Today on the podcast,
* Why he was so effective at getting top business leaders to understand and respect design
* Why the magic ingredient for a successful creative career is soft skills
* Some super insightful tips on how to build and develop a world-class design team
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello out there everyone, hello internet, hello friends in the podcast universe. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Chase Jarvis. |
| 0:10.0 | I want to welcome you to another episode of the Chase Jarvis live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:15.0 | This is where I sit down with people that I think are awesome, the world's top creators, |
| 0:20.0 | entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. |
| 0:21.7 | And I unpack their brains with the hope of bringing you some actionable, valuable insights |
| 0:26.2 | for living your dreams. |
| 0:28.3 | And I think we do a pretty good job. |
| 0:30.5 | And my guest today is going to fulfill that mission in part. |
| 0:34.5 | His name is Robert Bruner. |
| 0:36.9 | If you look up, quote, badass industrial designer, end quote, |
| 0:41.6 | in the dictionary, the first thing you're going to see is a picture of this guy. Robert is the co-founder |
| 0:46.8 | and partner of Ammunition Design Group, one of the top, if not the top industrial design |
| 0:51.6 | agencies in the world with clients like Lyft, Adobe, Microsoft, AIGA, so many people. |
| 0:57.7 | He led the design of the widely popular Beats brand, which yeah, yeah, you know, Apple bought |
| 1:03.2 | those guys for a couple bills. |
| 1:05.9 | And he also built the design practice at Apple. |
| 1:09.5 | The guy who hired Johnny Ive, yep, Robert Bruner. He's on |
| 1:14.0 | the show. Johnny is now Apple's chief design officer, but the stories that we get out of Robert today |
| 1:20.5 | are incredible. Not just the Apple stuff or the beat stuff. I actually go down some other |
| 1:26.1 | really interesting paths around his |
| 1:29.1 | relationship with the design firm Pentegram with Michael Beirut and others. He's also |
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