I joined clean energy startup Lunar Energy, in early 2022.
The company formed only 1.5yrs earlier, and acquired UK energy innovator Moixa in late 2021.
They had been working with Daylight, a design consultancy since their inception on brand identity, industrial design and the beginnings of app UX for their flagship product: a solar/battery system.
I worked initially with Daylight and internal SW/product teams across all these aspects, taking ownership of them at the close of the relationship with the consultancy, and building a small internal team to support design needs in the company going forward.
For much of the work I was charting the direction with leadership and doing the hands-on work at the same time, thinking through making and in the details of everything…
…from LED prototyping, packaging and label design for the physical product, the playful and innovative customer-facing app for the system to making t-shirts for employees and storyboarding animations for social media.
The efforts were recognised by an IF design award for both the HW design and App UX in 2023 - and a nomination for the Fast Company “Most innovative company” award in 2024.
I also worked across Lunar’s b2b “Gridshare” platform for distributed energy systems i.e. a software suite that manages and controls energy assets such as home battery systems, EVs and more using advanced, predictive AI.
To make the promise of this concept more concrete I created/commissioned a number of visualisation projects based on data from the platform including animations showing a day in the life of Gridshare assets in the California Bay area and Japan.
Building on that, we went on to make what the day sounds like in an innovative generative audio project with erstwhile BERG colleague Tom Armitage.
Finally, before leaving in summer of 2024 after 2.5yrs, I worked with Alex D’Souza on a v1.5 version of the Lunar System industrial design, and with James Jackman on a brand identity refresh of Gridshare, using novel generative code by Tom.