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Oct 2023
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Yves Béhar: Design’s Purpose-Driven Visi...

DAN RUBINSTEIN
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Gadgets, accessories, furniture, computers, and even robots: In recent memory, the language of good design has been shaped and driven by Yves Béhar, founder of Fuseproject. On this episode, Dan speaks with the Swiss-born impresario on his early career with Frog Design, what motivated some of his most famous projects like One Laptop Per Child, what he thinks about A.I. and the housing crisis, and his latest endeavor, the all-electric TELO Truck.

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