Yves Behar

Yves Behar

Yves Béhar

Founder of Fuseproject

Multi award-winning industrial designer Yves Béhar is founder of fuseproject, the integrated design agency renowned for its game changing projects in areas as diverse as technology, furniture, sports, lifestyle and fashion. Béhar has attained international acclaim for a broad range of clean-lined and consumer-aware products that are deeply in-tune with the needs of a sustainable future including: PACT sustainable underwear; an electric vehicle charging station for GE; a task chair for Herman Miller made from 93% recyclable materials; and, a groundbreaking packaging design innovation for PUMA reducing waste consumption by 60%. Béhar is a founder of Green Products Innovation Institute. A frequent speaker on sustainable design, Béhar he was invited to speak at the 2009 World Economic Forum.

Where do you go for inspiration? Everywhere: home, work, the beach, the waves (surfing).

What's one thing you do every day to make a difference? Working on non-profit projects that I am passionate about (OLPC, See Better to Learn Better).

What's your favorite thing about where you live? It gets better every day.

Which Compostmodern speaker are you most excited to hear from? Really? How is that going to help me make friends with all of them?

Fill in the blank: Reduce, reuse, recycle, ________. Enjoy. If you don't enjoy what you consume, you won't reuse, recycle or keep things for a long time.

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