Yves Béhar, 2021 ArtCenter Alumni Award, Distinguished Midcareer

Yves Béhar (BS 91 Product Design) has received the 2021 ArtCenter College of Design Alumni Award for Distinguished Midcareer. Béhar, founder and CEO of fuseproject, is a designer and entrepreneur who believes that integrated product, brand and experience design are the cornerstones of any business. Béhar has pioneered design as a force for positive social and environmental change.
His humanitarian work includes the One Laptop Per Child and See Better to Learn Better, which has distributed 6 million free corrective eyeglasses to schoolchildren in Mexico for the last 10 years. He received the INDEX Award for these projects, making him the only designer to have received the award twice.
Béhar has also been at the forefront of entrepreneurial venture design, co-founding FORME Life, August, and Canopy, as well as partnering with numerous start-ups such as the Happiest Baby Snoo, Uber, Cobalt, Desktop Metal, Sweetgreen and many others. Other notable collaborations with renowned partners such as Herman Miller, Movado, Samsung, Puma, Issey Miyake, Prada, SodaStream, Nivea, The Ocean Cleanup and many others have also received international acclaim.
Produced, Written and Directed by Matthew Rolston (B.F.A. Photography and Imaging, 1978)
Executive Producers: Keiko Doi (B.F.A. Fine Art, 1997), Laura Shumate
Edited by: Denis Ogorodov (B.A. Film, 2013)
Motion Graphics Design by: El Ogorodova (B.F.A. Graphic Design, 2011)
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