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Yves Béhar (born 1967) is a Swiss designer, entrepreneur, and sustainability advocate.〔http://gigaom.com/2010/10/01/yves-behar-on-sustainable-product-design-video/〕 He is the founder and principal designer of Fuseproject, an award-winning industrial design and brand development firm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fastcodesign.com/idearesults?companyname=fuseproject&op=Search )〕 Béhar is also Chief Creative Officer of the wearable technology company Jawbone, and Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of August, a Smart Lock maker. Béhar's design work emphasizes the integration of commercial products with sustainability and social good. In 2011, the Conde Nast Innovation and Design Awards recognized him as Designer of the Year.〔http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/designer-of-the-year-yves-behar/〕 His clients have included Herman Miller, PUMA, MINI, See Better to Learn Better, General Electric, Swarovski, Samsung, Jimmyjane, and Prada. ==Early life and career == Béhar was born in 1967 in Lausanne, Switzerland to a German mother and a Turkish father. He studied drawing and industrial design in both Europe and the United States. Béhar attended school in Lausanne, Switzerland and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Design from the Art Center College of Design, California. Prior to founding Fuseproject, Yves was design leader at the Silicon Valley offices of frog design and Lunar Design, developing product identities for clients such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Silicon Graphics.〔http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/ybehar〕 In 1999, Béhar founded the San Francisco and New York based industrial design and brand management firm Fuseproject. At Fuseproject, Béhar oversees product design for a variety of industrial sectors, including fashion, lifestyle, sports and technology. His clients include Herman Miller, PUMA, One Laptop per Child, Jawbone, MINI, See Better to Learn Better, General Electric, Swarovski, Samsung, Jimmyjane, and Prada. In 2010, Fuseproject was the top winner of the Industrial Designers Society of America IDSA IDEA/Fast Company awards with 14 winning products.〔 He is the chief industrial designer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC's) XO laptop, signing on with the project in 2005 and has been with the team since March 2006. This collaboration has led to two additional laptop prototypes, the OLPC XOXO and OLPC XO-3.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665783/fuseproject-unwraps-the-third-gen-one-laptop-per-child )〕 Since 2005, he has chaired the Industrial Design Department at California College of the Arts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yves Béhar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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