Ammunition
Founder of Ammunition, a design firm based in San Francisco, California; former Senior Director of Industrial Design for Apple, during the phase when Steve Jobs was on hiatus from the company (1989-1996)
PROFILE
Robert Brunner
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FROM Robert Brunner
Design and Architecture
Designer of Beats Headphones Behind the Beats headphones lies a person, Robert Brunner, founder and head of Ammunition design and branding company in San Francisco, and Chief Designer for Beats since Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre founded the company back in 2008. Now Ammunition will be ceding the branding to Apple, a bitter-sweet transition for Robert Brunner, especially as he was once Chief Designer at Apple and was responsible for hiring its now famed designer Jonathan Ive.
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To the Point
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