The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has awarded its prize in Product Design Award to Yves Behar. Behar is the founder of his San Francisco firm, fuseproject.
Behar measures the success of his work by determining how well the object expresses the initial idea. Behar and his fuseproject design team have produced an impressive and diverse body of work, including consumer electronics, footwear, graphics, packaging, and environments. Most notably, he has designed a new line of Birkenstock shoes called Footprints, which builds upon the traditional model of the shoe by incorporating his own interest in new recyclable technologies.
His latest project is Jawbone from Aliph. This new earpiece for mobile phones offers optimal clarity and features Yves's streamlined design concept.
Behar's work can be found in the permanent design collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Munich Museum of Applied Arts and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Photo: Courtesy of Cooper-Hewitt