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Designing for Tomorrow Herman Miller Design Program

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  • ABOUT Yves Behar

    Yves Béhar is a design entrepreneur who believes that product, digital, and brand design are cornerstones of any business. He is the director of fuseproject, the San Francisco and New York-based design and branding firm he founded in 1999. He is also Chief Creative Officer at Jawbone, where for the last 10 years his products, brand, and communications work has made the company a leader in wearable and audio consumer electronics. Profile
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Yves Béhar—one of the world’s top designers—is known for such civically minded projects as the One Laptop per Child program, for which he was lead industrial designer, and NYC Condom, the New York City Department of Health’s initiative to reduce HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy, for which he redesigned the logo and packaging. His other collaborations with renowned partners such as Herman Miller, Jawbone, GE, Puma, PayPal, SodaStream, Samsung, Issey Miyake, and many others have received international acclaim. Béhar's works are included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, and he is a frequent speaker on design, sustainability, and business. Béhar discusses design as a critical driver of 21st-century ideas, from sustainability to education and health.

This program is generously underwritten by Herman Miller.

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