Yves Béhar
Yves Béhar (* 1967 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss entrepreneur and industrial designer . He lives in the United States and founded Fuseproject , a San Francisco- based design and branding company, in 1999. He is considered one of the leading industrial designers.
Life
Béhar's mother is from East Germany and his father was a Turkish Jew . He first studied industrial design at the Art Center College of Design in La Tour-de-Peilz , Switzerland, and after a year moved to the parent company in Pasadena, California , where he completed his studies with a BSc of Industrial Design . He then worked for the companies Frogdesign and Lunar Design , which developed products for companies such as Apple , Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics . In 2013 he also designed the new uniform appearance of all Nivea products and in 2016 the new appearance of Rivella .
He is the chairman of the Industrial Design Department at California College of the Arts.
Exhibitions
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , 2004
- The Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains (MUDAC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2004
Prices
- Time Magazine Best Invention, 2001
- IDEA, Business Week Gold, Silver and the 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 " for short OLPC
- INDEX award for the OLPC XO laptop
- National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Web links
- Yves Behar on Designing OLPC. youtube
- Masters of Design. FASTCOMPANY.com
- The Seven axioms of Yves
- Wired Magazine feature on Yves Behar
- Yves Behar: Man for all Species ( Memento from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- interview
- The Brand Wizard: Yves Behar. BusinessWeek
- Feature on his home. Guardian
- Yves Behar on designing, presenting at TED 2008
- Interview Yves Béhar, part 1 , part 2 video 2010
- Interview with Yves Behar, February 2010. Designlines
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Marc-André Miserez: The 100-dollar PC is not a toy . In: SWI swissinfo.ch . ( swissinfo.org [accessed October 24, 2017]).
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt January 16, 2013 p. 21
- ↑ Current - German. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ CCA Names Yves Béhar Chair of Industrial Design Program ( Memento from April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Yves Béhar - Industrial Design Faculty - California College of the Arts ( Memento of December 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Béhar, Yves |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss industrial designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne , Switzerland |