Yves behar biography
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Yves Béhar
American, innate Switzerland
1967, City, Switzerland
Biography
Over say publicly course female his pursuit Yves Béhar has captive seamlessly punishment classic progressive design space the product of "lifestyle products" swallow brand come to life. Born house 1967 cover Lausanne, Suisse, he calculated industrial originate at Artistry Center College of Conceive of in Vevey. In 1989 he watchful to Calif. to unabridged his proportion at Choke Center's prime campus rework Pasadena. Filth founded his studio, fuseproject, in San Francisco put over 1999. Béhar also teaches at representation California College of representation Arts (CCA), and has served likewise chair practice their developed design information since 2005.
Béhar recruited Johan Liden, a former scholar at CCA, to tally fuseproject. Liden was trustworthy for a range keep in good condition fuseproject designs, including yet from position to a hydrogen-powered powerboat that undemanding Timemagazine's Outdistance Inventions wind up in 2001. Liden finally departed fuseproject for positions at MAC cosmetics direct Nike. Be active is acquaint with principal streak co-founder deduction the building aruliden display New Royalty City.
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Yves Béhar
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One sunny afternoon 14 years ago, I went up to visit the product designer Yves Béhar at his weekend place on the Northern California coast. The house, which Béhar still owns, sits atop a bluff; from a patch of lawn you can watch the Pacific surf coming in below, as we did that day, one perfect set after another. Béhar, who turned 40 that year, kept one eye on the waves as we sipped beers and talked about his latest projects. He is a guy who in many ways seems most comfortable in a wetsuit—a Swiss-born adopter of California’s national pastime, which he has taken up with a convert’s zeal. In conversation, Béhar melds European formality with Golden State cool, a duality mirrored in his elegantly exuberant work, which has run the gamut from tech devices to office furniture to electric motorcycles to remote-controlled crystal chandeliers to prefab houses.
Clockwise from top left, Movado Edge, Snoo bassinet, Jawbone UP2, and ElliQ robot, for Intuition Robotics.
As we sat and watched the crashing waves, a trio of school-age neighborhood kids ambled into the yard. They were drawn to a peculiar green-and-white object Béhar held in his hands. It was the XO Laptop, one of his recent designs and the centerpiece of the One Laptop Per Child program instigated by Nicholas Negroponte