Yves Behar Biography

Yves Behar

Yves Behar (born 1967 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Swiss living in the U.S. industrial designer and founded in 1999 Fuseproject, a San Francisco-based design and branding firm. He is considered one of the leading industrial designers.

Life

Behar's mother is from East Germany and his father was a Turkish Jew. He studied industrial design at first at the "Art Center College of Design," in La Tour de Peitz, Switzerland, and moved after a year in the Mother House in Pasadena, California, where he studied as a BSc of Industrial Design completed. Then He worked for the company Frogdesign and Lunar Design, who developed for companies such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics products.

He is Chairman of the Industrial Design Department at the California College of the Arts.

Exhibitions

* The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2004
* The Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains (MUDAC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2004

Rates

The OLPC XO-1 Laptop

* Time Magazine Best Invention, 2001
* IDEA, Business Week, Gold, Silver and Bronze Excellence Award (17), 2001/2/3/4/5
* ID Magazine Annual Design Competition, 2002/3/4/5/6
* D & AD Silver design award, 2003
* Red dot design award (4), 2004 / 5
* Brit Insurance 2008 Design Award for the laptop One Laptop Per Child "OLPC short
* INDEX award for the OLPC XO laptop
* National Design Award from Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Yves Behar Pictures ( 9 Pictures)

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