Yves Béhar

Béhar was born in 1967 in Lausanne, Switzerland to a German mother, Christine Béhar, and a Sephardi Jewish father, Henry Béhar, whose ancestors were expelled from a ghetto in Venice and resettled in Turkey.{{cite web|title=SAYL Chair|url=http://www.smartfurniture.com/products/Sayl-Chair/Yves-Behar.html|work=Smart Furniture|access-date=1 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309103700/http://www.smartfurniture.com/products/Sayl-Chair/Yves-Behar.html|archive-date=2012-03-09|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/6/5930539/the-makers-mark-yves-behar-fuseproject-profile|title=The Maker's Mark: Yves Behar is the man behind Silicon Valley's most beautiful gadgets|website=The Verge|date=6 August 2014 |access-date=2016-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804003931/https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/6/5930539/the-makers-mark-yves-behar-fuseproject-profile|archive-date=4 August 2023|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web|last=Murrow|first=Lauren|title=It's Yves Behar's World|url=http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/its-yves-behars-world-we-just-live-better-it?page=2|publisher=Modern Luxury|access-date=12 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702041229/http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/its-yves-behars-world-we-just-live-better-it?page=2|archive-date=2014-07-02|url-status=live}} In 1991, he received a bachelor of science degree in industrial design from the Art Center College of Design.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artcenter.edu/about/alumni/alumni-stories/yves-behar-fuseproject-founder.html|title=Yves Behar: Fuseproject Founder|website=ArtCenter College of Design|access-date=2016-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414161913/http://www.artcenter.edu/about/alumni/alumni-stories/yves-behar-fuseproject-founder.html|archive-date=2016-04-14|url-status=live}}

Prior to founding Fuseproject, Béhar 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/ybehar |title=Ybehar | California College of the Arts |access-date=April 22, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717040150/http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/ybehar |archive-date=July 17, 2012 }}

From 2005–2012, he was chair of the Industrial Design Program at California College of the Arts.{{cite web |title=Dwell on Design – Yves Behar |url=http://www.dwellondesign.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=438&Itemid=226 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824214214/http://www.dwellondesign.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=438&Itemid=226 |archive-date=2009-08-24 |access-date=1 February 2012 |work=Dwell }}

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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, Kodak, Mission Motors, 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.

Béhar is a sustainability advocate who argues that a designer's role is to create products that are both commercially viable and contribute to social good."Sustainability and notions of social good are the new values of the twenty-first century, and designers need to integrate them into every project they do, every relationship with industry that they have. We have a huge role to play in ensuring that these values are seen as assets; they must help create a product that is incredibly attractive, delightful, exciting, and commercially viable," from the foreword by Behar in: Blossom, Eve (2011)[http://www.artbook.com/9781935202455.html Material Change: Design Thinking and the Social Entrepreneurship Movement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630122343/http://www.artbook.com/9781935202455.html |date=2012-06-30 }} p.6., Bellerophon Publications, Inc. {{ISBN|9781935202455}}''

Béhar is a member of the Founder's Circle of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, a non-profit organization founded in 2010 in order to educate and empower manufacturers of consumer products to focus on environmental impact and social fairness.{{Cite web|url=http://www.c2ccertified.org/the-team/founders-circle/yves_behar|title=The Team, Yves Béhar|website=Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute|access-date=2016-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428023052/http://www.c2ccertified.org/the-team/founders-circle/yves_behar|archive-date=2016-04-28|url-status=live}}

Béhar was the Chief Creative Officer of the wearable technology company, Jawbone, from 2003 until 2017.{{cite news |last=Perlroth |first=Nicole |title=Yves Behar: World's 7 Most Important People in Design |work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmm45fdgk/yves-behar-is-the-founder-of-fuseproject-and-chief-creative-officer-at-jawbone/ |url-status=live |access-date=1 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106091959/http://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmm45fdgk/yves-behar-is-the-founder-of-fuseproject-and-chief-creative-officer-at-jawbone/ |archive-date=2012-01-06}}{{Cite news |date=2017-07-11 |title=Technology company Jawbone goes into liquidation |language=en-US |work=Dezeen |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/11/jawbone-enters-liquidation-yves-behar-technology-up-jambox/ |url-status=live |access-date=2017-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040601/https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/11/jawbone-enters-liquidation-yves-behar-technology-up-jambox/ |archive-date=2017-12-01}} In 2010, Béhar redesigned the Jawbone branding, packaging, communications and products. Behar designed the JAMBOX and BIG JAMBOX, a family of bluetooth compact audio speakers and also the UP: Jawbone's app-powered health and wellness wristband.{{cite web |title=Yves Behar and Jawbone's "Up" is an App-Powered Wristband Promoting Healthy Living Read more: Yves Behar and Jawbone's "Up" is an App-Powered Wristband Promoting Healthy Living |url=http://inhabitat.com/yves-behar-and-jawbone%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cup%E2%80%9D-is-an-app-powered-wristband-promoting-healthy-living/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210193815/http://inhabitat.com/yves-behar-and-jawbone%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cup%e2%80%9d-is-an-app-powered-wristband-promoting-healthy-living/ |archive-date=2011-12-10 |access-date=1 February 2012 |work=Inhabitat }} Béhar collaborated with Ceft and Company New York{{Cite web |title=advertising: Aliph's Jawbone ad campaign {{!}} ceft and company new york |url=http://www.ceftandcompany.com/aliphs-jawbone-advertising-campaign/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609073353/http://www.ceftandcompany.com/aliphs-jawbone-advertising-campaign/ |archive-date=2016-06-09 |access-date=2016-06-23 |website=www.ceftandcompany.com|date=January 2014 }} for the Jawbone headset visuals.{{cite web |title=Jawbone Campaign and PR Visuals |url=http://www.ceftandcompany.com/jawbone-campaign-and-pr-visuals/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210542/http://www.ceftandcompany.com/jawbone-campaign-and-pr-visuals/ |archive-date=2013-10-29 |access-date=October 28, 2013 |publisher=ceft and company new york}} As of 2017, Jawbone was being liquidated and the money was being used for a new health start-up called Jawbone Health.

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He is the chief industrial designer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC's) XO laptop, signing on with the project in 2005. This collaboration has led to two additional laptop prototypes, the OLPC XOXO and OLPC XO-3.{{cite web |date=10 January 2012 |title=OLPC |url=http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665783/fuseproject-unwraps-the-third-gen-one-laptop-per-child |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214024931/http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665783/fuseproject-unwraps-the-third-gen-one-laptop-per-child |archive-date=2012-02-14 |access-date=2012-02-01 |work=FastCo Design }} Béhar designed a series of low-cost, low-power laptops for distribution to low-income schoolchildren. The impact of OLPC on developing countries was so great that Uruguay purchased approximately 1,000,000 OLPC devices, and Rwanda has included an image of the OLPC XO notebook on their new currency.{{cite web|title=OLPC Still Bringing Tech 'Dreams' To Needy Kids With Very Cool Green Gadgets|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2014/01/10/olpc-still-focused-on-bringing-tech-dreams-to-needy-kids/|work=Forbes|access-date=10 January 2014|first=Connie|last=Guglielmo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114045820/http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2014/01/10/olpc-still-focused-on-bringing-tech-dreams-to-needy-kids/|archive-date=2014-01-14|url-status=live}}

In 2009, he collaborated with Ethan Imboden of Jimmyjane on a line of waterproof rechargeable vibrators.{{cite web |date=3 November 2009 |title=A New Vibrator by Yves Behar Arouses Our Interest |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/new-vibrator-yves-behar-arouses-our-interest |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108063147/http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/new-vibrator-yves-behar-arouses-our-interest |archive-date=2012-01-08 |access-date=1 February 2012 |work=Fast Company }} He partnered with Peel,{{cite web |title=Peel Turns your iPhone into a universal remote |url=https://www.engadget.com/2010/12/08/peel-turns-your-iphone-into-a-universal-remote-using-a-wirele/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228201924/http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/08/peel-turns-your-iphone-into-a-universal-remote-using-a-wirele |archive-date=2011-12-28 |access-date=1 February 2012 |work=Engadget |date=8 December 2010 |publisher=Engagdget}} a company that created an app and hardware to turn mobile devices into universal television remotes. Other investment and partner companies include Mint Cleaner,{{cite web |title=Mint Cleaner |url=http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/mint-automatic-floor-cleaner-u-129463 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712001521/http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/mint-automatic-floor-cleaner-u-129463 |archive-date=2012-07-12 |access-date=1 February 2012 |work=Apartment Therapy }} and Herman Miller.{{cite web |date=2010-10-07 |title=Herman Miller Aims at Office Depot, With $399 Task Chair by Yves Behar |url=http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662448/herman-miller-aims-at-office-depot-with-399-task-chair-by-yves-behar |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830193333/http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662448/herman-miller-aims-at-office-depot-with-399-task-chair-by-yves-behar |archive-date=2011-08-30 |access-date=2012-02-01 |work=FastCo Design }}

Béhar designed eyeglasses for the "Ver Bien para Aprender Mejor" (in English "See Better to Learn Better") program.{{Cite web|url=http://wisesociety.it/video/yves-behar-creativita-per-tutti/|title=Yves Behar – design aiuta a vivere meglio -|website=wisesociety.it|language=It|access-date=2016-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320200705/http://wisesociety.it/video/yves-behar-creativita-per-tutti/|archive-date=2016-03-20|url-status=live}} "Ver Bien para Aprender Mejor" has provided free pairs of custom-designed eyeglasses to students throughout Mexico since 2010. In May 2011, Béhar partnered with Tipping Point, a San Francisco-based philanthropic organization, who made a pledge to the "See Well to Learn" program, which aims to distribute free pairs of glasses to San Francisco Bay Area students.{{cite news|title=Tipping Point Gala|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/24/DD7E1JK0SQ.DTL|work=SF Chronicle|access-date=1 February 2012|first=Catherine|last=Bigelow|date=24 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526070821/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F05%2F24%2FDD7E1JK0SQ.DTL|archive-date=2011-05-26|url-status=live}}

Béhar is also the principal designer of the SPRING Accelerator programme created by the Nike Foundation, Girl Effect, USAID and DFID. The programme takes 18 entrepreneurs annually whose businesses provide products or services that directly impact the lives of adolescent girls living in poverty worldwide. The first cohort launched in June 2015, with entrepreneurs from Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. Yves Béhar and fuseproject provide hands-on design support for the businesses, including brand identity, product design, interactive design, and service/business modeling – working directly with adolescent girls in order to maximize impact and scalability.{{cite web|url=https://www.springaccelerator.org/|title=SPRING Accelerator|website=SPRING Accelerator|access-date=2016-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118231257/https://www.springaccelerator.org/|archive-date=2016-01-18|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/spring-small-business-accelerator/|title=An Accelerator That Believes Businesses and Girls Are the Keys to Africa's Future|last=Merrill|first=Austin|date=2015-12-01|website=Vanity Fair Magazine|access-date=2016-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160119215052/http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/spring-small-business-accelerator|archive-date=2016-01-19|url-status=live}}

In 2008, Béhar redesigned the NYC Condom logo and packaging, as well as NYC Condom vending machines for the New York City Department of Health as a part of an initiative to reduce HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy.{{cite web |title=NYC Condom |url=https://www.dexigner.com/news/13646 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013115825/http://www.dexigner.com/news/13646 |archive-date=2013-10-13 |access-date=1 February 2012 |work=Dexigner |date=17 February 2008 }}

In June 2012, Béhar and Ouya partnered to create an open, hackable game platform.{{Cite web |title=OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411153630/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console |archive-date=2016-04-11 |access-date=2016-04-12 |website=Kickstarter |date=25 June 2013 |language=en-US}} The initiative launched on Kickstarter and raised over $8.5 million with over 63,000 backers. In 2012, SodaStream International teamed with Béhar to introduce Source, a new home soda machine designed with a special emphasis on sustainability.{{cite news |last=Rose |first=Steve |date=18 September 2012 |title=SodaStream: Yves Béhar's fizzy drinks machine for the future |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/sep/18/sodastream-fizzy-drinks-yves-behar?newsfeed=true |url-status=live |access-date=5 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219061751/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/sep/18/sodastream-fizzy-drinks-yves-behar?newsfeed=true |archive-date=2014-02-19}}

In October 2015, Béhar and Movado announced a design collaboration, beginning with the Movado Edge; this is the first design partnership for the brand since the launch of their original Museum Dial watch in 1947.{{cite web |date=2015-10-06 |title=Industrial Designer Yves Behar Joins Forces with Movado |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertanaas/2015/10/06/industrial-designer-yves-behar-joins-forces-with-movado-introducing-the-new-movado-edge/#2715e4857a0b655c6d11522d |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927160321/http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertanaas/2015/10/06/industrial-designer-yves-behar-joins-forces-with-movado-introducing-the-new-movado-edge/#2715e4857a0b655c6d11522d |archive-date=2016-09-27 |access-date=2017-09-19 |work=Forbes}}

Béhar launched the world's first smart bassinet with Harvey Karp in October 2016, the Snoo Bassinet, utilizing robotic technology to simulate the 5 S technique detailed in Happiest Baby on the Block.{{Cite news |date=2021-03-25 |title=The Best Co-Sleepers and Bassinets |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-co-sleepers/ |access-date= |issn=0362-4331}}

In 2017, Behar introduced The Frame, a collaboration with Samsung; The Frame is a smart TV that, instead of going black when turned off, displays a piece of artwork from a world-renowned artist. The Frame has an extended art collection with works from the Van Gogh Museum, Andy Warhol Museum, and the Prado. In 2017, Béhar designed a model of security robots for use in workspaces which was launched by Cobalt Robotics.{{Cite web |last=Keller |first=Hadley |date=March 2017 |title=Yves Béhar's Cobalt Security Guard Is the Future of Robotics |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/yves-behar-cobalt-security-guard-is-the-future-of-robotics |access-date=2020-04-28 |website=Architectural Digest |language=en}}

Béhar has four children; Sky (born 2007) from a prior relationship and Sylver (born 2010), Soleyl (born 2014), and Saylor (born 2016) with Sabrina Buell.{{Cite web |date=30 May 2016 |title=Inside Yves Béhar and Sabrina Buell's High-Tech San Francisco Home |url=http://www.vogue.com/13439916/sabrina-buell-yves-behar-san-francisco-home/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531114640/http://www.vogue.com/13439916/sabrina-buell-yves-behar-san-francisco-home/ |archive-date=2016-05-31 |access-date=2016-05-30 |website=Vogue}} His children all have the letter Y in their name to honor his father, Henry. Béhar married Sabrina Buell in September 2017 at Burning Man, at the wooden Aluna structure designed by Colombian architect Juan David Marulanda.{{Cite news |date=2017-09-11 |title=Bjarke Ingels, Yves Behar and more share Burning Man 2017 memories |language=en-US |work=Dezeen |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2017/09/11/bjarke-ingels-yves-behar-architects-designers-burning-man-photos-memories-instagram/ |url-status=live |access-date=2017-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041020/https://www.dezeen.com/2017/09/11/bjarke-ingels-yves-behar-architects-designers-burning-man-photos-memories-instagram/ |archive-date=2017-12-01}}

In June 2014, Béhar partnered with Mark One to announce Vessyl, a proposed intelligent drinking glass designed to help users make better decisions about their health and overall consumption. After taking in more than US$11m in funding ($7m in institutional funding, and $4m in preorders), the product never shipped.{{cite web |date=2016-06-16 |title=Intel Capital invests additional funding in a buggy smart cup |url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/16/intel-capital-mark-one-vessyl/ |access-date=2021-03-10 |work=TechCrunch}}

In 2017, Béhar made international news with his work with Fusebox on the Juicero juicer.{{Cite news |date=2017-04-19 |title=Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-valley-s-400-juicer-may-be-feeling-the-squeeze |access-date=2023-06-11}}{{Cite web |last=Aouf |first=Rima Sabina |date=2017-04-20 |title=Yves Behar's Juicero juicer has its reputation shredded by social media |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2017/04/20/yves-behar-juicero-juicer-reputation-shredded-social-media-design-technology-news/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=Dezeen |language=en}} It was known for limited functionality and high price, designed with known limitations for the user putting Fuseproject's design reputation on the line. Shortly after the criticism, the company closed.

Additionally, Béhar is the only designer to have received two Index: Awards, with an additional nomination for his design of Puma's "Clever Little Bag."{{cite web |title=INDEX: AWARD WINNER YVES BEHAR IS DOING GOOD |url=http://designtoimprovelife.dk/fuseproject-business-model/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075836/http://designtoimprovelife.dk/fuseproject-business-model/ |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2014-06-03}}

• 2017 – Swiss Institute Honoree, Swiss Institute{{cite web|url=https://www.swissinstitute.net/past-benefits/|title=Past Benefits {{!}} Swiss Institute|access-date=2017-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128180105/https://www.swissinstitute.net/past-benefits/|archive-date=2017-11-28|url-status=live}}
• 2015 – Design Visionary Award, Design Miami{{cite web|url=http://miami2015.designmiami.com/design-visionary-award/view/yves-behar|title=Design Visionary, Yves Béhar|website=DesignMiami|access-date=2015-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208213851/http://miami2015.designmiami.com/design-visionary-award/view/yves-behar|archive-date=2015-12-08|url-status=live}}
• 2014 – Béhar's company fuseproject listed among World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Design by Fast Company,{{cite web|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/3026684/most-innovative-companies-2014/the-worlds-top-10-most-innovative-companies-in-design|title=THE WORLD'S TOP 10 MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES IN DESIGN|date=2014|website=FastCompany|access-date=2014-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140604052442/http://www.fastcompany.com/3026684/most-innovative-companies-2014/the-worlds-top-10-most-innovative-companies-in-design|archive-date=2014-06-04|url-status=live}}
• 2012 -Béhar was featured on a February 26, 2012 episode of CNN's The Next List.{{cite web|url=http://www.idsa.org/fuseproject-featured-cnns-next-list|title=Fuseproject Featured on CNN's The Next List|publisher=IDSA|access-date=2012-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307203136/http://www.idsa.org/fuseproject-featured-cnns-next-list|archive-date=2012-03-07|url-status=live}}
• 2011– INDEX award for the OLPC XO laptop{{cite web|url=http://globalliteracy.org/content/olpc-linux-based-laptop-wins-international-design-award|title=OLPC wins INDEX|work=Global Literacy Foundation|access-date=1 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103054146/http://globalliteracy.org/content/olpc-linux-based-laptop-wins-international-design-award|archive-date=2013-11-03|url-status=live}} and the Verbien See Better to Learn Better, a collaboration with Augen Optics, eyeglass program {{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-slevin/designer-yves-behar-helps_b_942285.html|title=Designer Yves Béhar Helps Children of Mexico See Better|last=Slevin|first=Jacob|date=30 August 2011|work=Huffington Post|access-date=7 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810023330/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-slevin/designer-yves-behar-helps_b_942285.html|archive-date=2013-08-10|url-status=live}}
• 2011– Conde Nast Innovation and Design Awards, 2011: Yves Béhar – Designer of the Year,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/12/yves-behar-on-cars|title=Autopia Yves Béhar: European car industry is tragically outdated|magazine=Wired UK|access-date=1 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119020336/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/12/yves-behar-on-cars|archive-date=2012-01-19|url-status=live}} PUMA Clever Little Bag – Sustainability.
• 2011 – Treehugger's Best of Green Architecture and Design Awards – Herman Miller SAYL{{cite web|title=SAYL|url=http://www.indesignlive.com/articles/products/furniture/AIDA-Finalists-Arras-and-SAYL#axzz1lgEPyx2d|work=Indesign Live|date=27 June 2011 |access-date=7 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725182438/http://www.indesignlive.com/articles/products/furniture/AIDA-Finalists-Arras-and-SAYL#axzz1lgEPyx2d|archive-date=2012-07-25|url-status=live}} and GE WattStation
• 2010 – IDEA Awards 2010: ranked #1 winner with 14 awards in Fast Company{{cite web|url=http://www.designindaba.com/speaker/yves-behar|title=Yves Behar|work=Design Indaba|access-date=7 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711053034/http://www.designindaba.com/speaker/yves-behar|archive-date=2011-07-11|url-status=live}}
• 2008 – Design Museum London "Design of the Year" award for One Laptop per Child (Brit Insurance 2008 Design Award){{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/mar/19/design.art|title=Hand-powered laptop for poorer countries wins award|last=Higgins|first=Charlotte|date=19 March 2008|access-date=4 January 2012|work=The Guardian|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006231248/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/mar/19/design.art|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=live}}
• 2007 – Béhar listed among TIME's "Top 25 Visionaries"{{cite news|last=Van Dyk|first=Deidre|title=Top 25 Visionaries|url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1647860_1647834_1644317,00.html|publisher=Time Magazine|access-date=4 January 2012|date=14 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126013605/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1647860_1647834_1644317,00.html|archive-date=2012-01-26|url-status=dead}}
• 2007 – Fast Company 2007 Master of Design {{cite web|url=http://www.cooltownstudios.com/2007/10/17/the-power-of-design-2007|title=The Power of Design|work=Cooltown Studios|access-date=7 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127202459/http://www.cooltownstudios.com/2007/10/17/the-power-of-design-2007|archive-date=2011-11-27|url-status=dead}}
• 2004 – National Design Award, category of Product Design from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum{{cite web|title=The Earth Awards|url=http://www.theearthawards.org/site/yves-behar/|access-date=2012-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423142558/http://www.theearthawards.org/site/yves-behar/|archive-date=2012-04-23|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18538965/|title=Yves Béhar {{!}} People|website=Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324114229/https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18538965/|archive-date=2017-03-24|url-status=live|access-date=2018-05-02}}

• 2004 – The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,{{cite web|url=http://mocoloco.com/sanfrancisco/archives/000417.php|title=SF Moma|work=MoCo|access-date=1 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409152041/http://mocoloco.com/sanfrancisco/archives/000417.php|archive-date=2012-04-09|url-status=live}}
• 2004 – The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC) in Lausanne, Switzerland,{{cite web|url=http://www.dwr.com/category/designers/a-c/yves-behar.do|title=Yves Behar|work=Design Within Reach|access-date=7 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120060822/http://www.dwr.com/category/designers/a-c/yves-behar.do|archive-date=2012-01-20|url-status=live}}

• 2012 – Béhar's work, Alef of Life was a touring exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, as part of the exhibit "Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought: An Exhibition and The Dorothy Saxe Invitational".{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecjm.org/exhibitions/29|title=The CJM {{!}} Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought: An Exhibition and The Dorothy Saxe Invitational|website=www.thecjm.org|access-date=2018-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502210917/https://www.thecjm.org/exhibitions/29|archive-date=2018-05-02|url-status=live}}

Béhar's work has work in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City,{{Cite web |title=Yves Béhar {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/33197 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221045647/https://www.moma.org/artists/33197 |archive-date=2016-12-21 |access-date=2016-12-15 |website=The Museum of Modern Art}} and SFMoMA.{{Cite web |title=Yves Béhar fuseproject/design series 2 |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/yves-behar-fuseprojectdesign-series-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220113745/https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/yves-behar-fuseprojectdesign-series-2/ |archive-date=2016-12-20 |access-date=2016-12-15 |website=SFMOMA}} Béhar is on the board of trustees for SFMoMA.{{Cite web |title=Yves Béhar Joins SFMOMA Board of Trustees |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/press/release/yves-behar-joins-sfmoma-board-trustees/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220113943/https://www.sfmoma.org/press/release/yves-behar-joins-sfmoma-board-trustees/ |archive-date=2016-12-20 |access-date=2016-12-15 |website=SFMOMA}}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.fuseproject.com/ Fuseproject Official website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101123002306/http://fuseproject.com/yves_behar.php Yves Béhar page on Fuseproject website]
• [http://www.artbook.com/9781935202455.html Material Change: Design Thinking and the Social Entrepreneurship Movement]
• {{TED speaker}}
• [http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/02/yves-behar-design-silicon-valley.html Surfing the Next Wave], Vanity Fair.
• [http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/119/all-about-yves.html All About Yves], Fast Company.
• [https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/laptop.html Feature on Yves Behar], Wired Magazine

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