Yves Behar
Designed the One Laptop Per Child XO and Jawbone products, fusing social mission with consumer industrial design.
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Yves Behar, the Swiss-born industrial designer with studios in San Francisco and Switzerland, has forged a distinctive path by blending social impact with consumer tech. He famously crafted the $100 One Laptop Per Child XO, a device that reflects his unwavering commitment to applying the same obsessive design principles to affordable technology as he does to high-end gadgets like the Jawbone. Behar's approach demonstrates his belief that democratizing technology doesn't require compromising on design, as he consistently marries idealism with industrial precision.
He designs like an idealist with a factory budget, insisting a hundred-dollar laptop for kids in the global south deserves the same fanaticism as a luxury speaker.
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Designed the One Laptop Per Child XO and Jawbone products, fusing social mission with consumer industrial design.
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