Ammunition

Company type	LLC
Industry	Product design, Industrial design, Interaction design, Strategy, Visual design, Branding
Headquarters	San Francisco, California , United States
Key people	Robert Brunner, Matt Rolandson
Number of employees	50
Website	ammunitiongroup.com

Ammunition is a San Francisco, CA, design studio founded in 2007 by Robert Brunner.^[1] The current managing partners are Robert Brunner and Matt Rolandson. The company designs hardware, software, and graphic identities for many companies, including Adobe Systems, Beats by Dre, Polaroid Corporation, and Square Inc.^[2]

Notable projects

Ammunition developed the industrial design, user interface and accessory system for the Barnes & Noble Nook e-readers.^[3]

In May 2014, the company designed the Smartisan T1 and T2 smartphones for China-based Smartisan Technology Co. Ltd.^[4] The company won several awards for their design.

Awards

Ammunition has been recognized with numerous international design awards from the Industrial Designers Society of America, Red Dot, Core77 Design Awards, D&AD, and the Good Design Awards (Chicago).

In 2014, Ammunition won a Good Design award in the "Smartphone & Accessory" category for the Smartisan T1 smartphone.^[5]
In 2014, Ammunition announced that their work was recognised in the Product and Graphic categories of the Spark Awards and won 10 awards^[6]
In 2015, Ammunition won an iF Gold Award for the Smartisan T1 smartphone.^[7]
In 2016, Ammunition won the Cooper Hewitt Product Design award^[8] for noteworthy projects including Beats By Dr Dre, the Lyft glowstache and the UNICEF Kid Power Band.^[9]
In 2016, Ammunition won an iF Design Award for the Smartisan T2 smartphone IF Product Design Award for Smartisan T2 smartphone.