Yves Behar - Designing Objects that Tell Stories

It is undeniable that Yves Behar is a talented industrial designer, the designs presented in this lecture all oozes elegance and have originality to it.
Yves believes that designs should have a humanistic sense to them, and as designers, we really need to think how to create relationship between our work and the world.


There are some designs that I really like in this video: the light fixture for Swarovski; the watch for MINI COOPER; and Jawbone.


Morpheus Chandelier


The idea behind this is just spectacular, and the visual aspect of it is breathtaking. The design enables us to change the shape and texture of the light from computer. It's innovative and it's beautiful and pleasurable to look at.

The one thing that I'm disappointed about in this video is that (as one commenter pointed out), that Yves failed to include how each object tells a story. Sure, it's beautiful, but it doesn't tell a story (at least for me) and he didn't seem to try to tell the story behind each object. The key aspects of the lecture, for me is almost the same as those in Don Norman's lecture.

This lecture, although doesn't deliver what is promised in the title, is still important for industrial designer to learn that adding humanistic sense to designs will completely elevate them to a whole new level.


Photo of Yves Behar taken from:
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/2b.jpg

Video available @
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGn8F4j6pH8