The sleek and super efficient Leaf light is a collaboration between Herman Miller and Yves Béhar's fuseproject studio. On design pedigree alone, you know its gotta be good. And it is. Made from 37 percent recycled materials, the Leaf's fluid shape contains 20 LEDs that use 40 percent less energy than a typical compact fluorescent bulb. It also enables the user to control lighting color......read more
Sneaker shoppers will be taking home their next pair of PUMAs in something sustainable. The apparel company's new eco-conscious packaging and distribution system, which was unveiled on SHFT last year, will start hitting stores soon. Designed by Yves Behar's fuseproject studio, the so-called "Clever Little Bag" is part of PUMA's footprint reduction strategy. It's claimed that the packaging......read more
This week, Yves Behar's fuseproject studio unveiled the latest addition to the One Laptop Per Child project, which aims to provide cheap, durable computers to kids in the developing world. The OLPC XO-3, launched at CES 2012, is substantially thicker than the absurdly thin concept tablet shown in 2009. Unfortunately, e-paper tech hasn't advanced as much as the designers envisioned, so Behar and......read more
Shopping for an office chair isn't an easy task. Sure, we'd all be happy with an Aeron chair, but only if someone else was paying. At the other end, there's always Walmart but, uhhh, no thanks. Herman Miller has our answer in the SAYL Chair, designed to offer high design at an affordable price. Created by sustainable design guru Yves Behar, the SAYL family of work chairs feature "suspension"......read more
Yves Behar and his team at fuseproject are the go-to design group that companies turn to for game-changing ideas. From the $100 XO laptop and Puma's waste-saving Clever Little Bag to the sleek Leaf LED lamp and SAYL Office Chair for Herman Miller, Yves' work merges must-have design with a firm commitment to social and ecological responsibility. That's what makes him one of the design world's......read more
Fuseproject, the San Fransisco design firm headed by The Big SHFT subject Yves Béhar, has teamed with Landscape Forms to create MultipliCITY, an innovative collection of sustainable outdoor furniture. The flexible system includes two benches, a table, a bike rack, path lights, and garbage/recycling cans. The system avoids bulky pieces that are tricky to ship, favoring......read more
The latest groundbreaking design from Big SHFT star Yves Behar is Vessyl, a smart cup that keeps track of what you drink by displaying the fat, sugar, caffeine and caloric content of any liquid poured into it. San-Francisco-based scientist Justin Lee commissioned Behar’s studio Fuseproject to come up with the design. The result of the collaboration is a sleek-looking cup with a spill-proof......read more
We've been following green design guru Yves Behar since SHFT's inception, and this GE WattStation may be his most paradigm-shifting creation yet. The man behind fuseproject collaborated with GE Ecomagination to design an EV charger for both public and private spaces, with the stated goal of helping "accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles." The......read more