THE FUEGO BLOG

We are thrilled to announce that the Fuego Modular just recieved the 2008 Spark Design Award.  Mark your calendar for the Spark Celebration and exhibition premiere, Friday October 3rd, 2008 at the Autodesk exhibition gallery, second floor, One Market Street, San Francisco, CA from 6pm to 9pm.  www.sparkawards.com

Robert Brunner, CEO of Ammunition Group and Chief Industrial Designer for FUEGO, just launched his first business book titled: Do You Matter?  The book provides insight on how smart industrial design can effect the success and longevity of a business.  Robert provides examples through the various clients he has worked with such as Nike, Dell, Nokia, and more.

Fuego is featured illustrating Robert's concept of products as 'portals to experiences'. ...

While currently traveling with my family throughout Malaysia and Southeast Asia I was reminded of a post by Robert back in May. He posted an image of the Burj al Arab Hotel and commented on the development of the country and the overwhelming growth and importance of its architecture.  From the window of my hotel room here in Kuala Lumpur, I had this view of the Petronas Towers.

The Petronas Towers (also known as the Petronas Twin Towers), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are the tallest twin buildings in the world. ...

My job takes me around the world to build products. I travel to make contacts with manufacturers worldwide in order to locate the best fitting partners to produce our products. My focus currently is the Fuego Modular, which has landed me in Taichung, Taiwan, working with a high quality, and highly flexible niche producer of high-end grills and their stainless products. Since the first Modular concept and design, which was showcased last year, the product has now been approved for production and is currenlty in the full production design, engineering, testing, and certification phase. We are thrilled to be on target to begin mass production in September...