Yves Béhar

Yves Béhar (born 1967 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss living in the U.S. industrial designer and in 1999 founded fuseproject, a resident of San Francisco design and branding firm. He is regarded as 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 the first " Art Center College of Design", in La Tour -de- Peilz, Switzerland, and after a year in the Mother House in Pasadena, California, where he graduated with a degree in BSc of Industrial Design. He then worked for the company Frogdesign and Lunar Design, which developed products for companies such as Apple, Hewlett -Packard and Silicon Graphics. He designed in 2013 and the new uniform appearance of all the Nivea products.

He is Chairman of the Industrial Design Department at 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

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  • Time Magazine Best Invention in 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 Design Award 2008 for the laptop " One Laptop Per Child " short OLPC
  • INDEX award for the OLPC XO laptop
  • National Design Award from the Cooper -Hewitt National Design Museum
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