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Yves Bhar
Was born in 1967 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He studied drawing and industrial design
in both Europe and the United States. Bhar attended school in Lausanne, Switzerland
and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He holds a B.S. in
Industrial Design from the Art Center College of Design, California.

Yves is a design entrepreneur who believes that product, digital and brand design are
cornerstones of any business. He is the founder of fuseproject, the San Francisco and
New York based design and branding firm he established in 1999. He is also Chief
Creative Officer at Jawbone, where for the last 11 years his products, brand and
communications work has helped the company become a leader in wearable and audio
consumer electronics. Behar is also the Creative Co-Founder of OUYA, an open
sourced gaming platform, and is Co-founder of start-up August, a next generation home
entry system.

His other collaborations with renowned partners such as Herman Miller, GE, Puma,
PayPal, SodaStream, Samsung, Issey Miyake, Prada and many others have received
international acclaim. Bhar's works are included in the permanent collections of
museums worldwide, and he is a frequent speaker on design, sustainability and business
topics.
There are some of his achivemts:
Bhar's company fuseproject listed among World's Top 10 Most Innovative
Companies in Design by Fast Company, 2014

Solo museum exhibitions:
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2004
The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC) in
Lausanne, Switzerland, 2004
IDEA Awards 2010: ranked #1 winner with 14 awards in Fast Company
Treehugger's Best of Green Architecture and Design Awards Herman Miller
SAYL[33] and GE WattStation
Bhar listed among TIME's "Top 25 Visionaries"
Design Museum London "Design of the Year" award for One Laptop per Child
(Brit Insurance 2008 Design Award)
INDEX award for the OLPC XO laptop and the Ver Bien para Aprender Mejor
eyeglass program
National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Fast Company 2007 Master of Design
Conde Nast Innovation and Design Awards, 2011: Yves Bhar - Designer of the
Year,[40] PUMA Clever Little Bag - Sustainability.
Bhar was featured on a February 26, 2012 episode of CNN's The Next List.
Bhar's work Alef of Life was exhibited at San Francisco Contemporary Jewish
Museum as part of the exhibit "Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish
Thought".