Profile
Value is created where pain is relieved. Design is the driver for innovative brands, products and services that create good business and relieve pain. To illustrate this idea, Lukas founded San Francisco based design firm SHIBULERU.
At SHIBULERU we don't read business books; we focus on creating valuable insights and offerings for our clients. Our environment is free from distraction and we surround ourselves with the best. This is what we grew to expect from our team members may they be sitting on the same table or anywhere else in the world. Fortune 500 companies and high profile startups work with SHIBULERU. Current clients include Living Divani, Vitra, ZxVentures, Anheuser Busch Inbev and Beartooth Radio to name a few. Before launching SHIBULERU, Lukas was a senior designer at IDEO in Palo Alto. Parallel to his position at IDEO, Lukas Co-founded mimijumi, a design driven maker of infant products.
Lukas frequently lectured industrial design, innovation process and design thinking at FHNW, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, and he was invited as guest lecturer to CCA, California College of Art. As esteemed designer, Lukas was in the Jury of the prestigious IDSA/IDEA awards, US based SPARK awards as well as the board of expert nominators of the Swiss Design Prize. Lukas' work is internationally recognized and has won international design awards such as IDSA/IDEA gold, IF, Spark gold, and Best of Neocon. Business Insider named Lukas as one of the 75 most influential designers in technology.
Biography
After graduating from University of Art and Design Zurich, Lukas deepened his understanding of design working in architecture and in the world of luxury goods at Bally. At IDEO he demonstrated his creative capacity by designing complex medical devices for Medtronic, consumer electronics for Western Digital, and furniture for Steelcase to name a few clients. Lukas sits on the nominating committee of the Swiss Design Awards and since 2013 in the Jury of the prestigious IDSA/IDEA awards. He has won international design awards such as the IDSA/IDEA, IF, Spark, and Best of Neocon. In 2008 Scherrer co-founded mimijumi, a design-driven maker of goods for the modern family. As design director for mimijumi, Lukas overviews the whole creative process from brand creation to the tinniest product details.
Honors, Awards and Exhibitions
2016 - Vitra Showroom Design at Neocon, Chicago
2016 - Living Divani product launch at Salone del Mobile, Milano
2015 - SPARK Design Award Jury
2014 - SPARK Design Award Jury
2014 - Time is More Exhibition – Lukas Scherrer and Tom Strala at the Salone del Mobile in Milan
2014 - Nomination Golderner Hase, Hochparterre Schweiz
2014 - IDSA/IDEA Award Jury
2013 - Best Designers in Technology
2013 - IDSA/IDEA Award Jury
2013 - Nominator, Designpreis Schweiz
2011 - ID annual design review, Honorable Mention
2011 - Nominator, Designpreis Schweiz
2010 - ID annual design review, Design Distinction
2010 - IDEA award
2009 - Nominator, Designpreis Schweiz
2009 - iF award
2009 - Spark award Gold
2008 - IDEA Bronze award
2009 - IDEA Silver award
2008 - Neocon Gold award
