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  • Yves Behar: ‘Prototyping is the most important part’

    For over an hour, renowned industrial design Yves Behar of San Francisco-based fuseproject spoke to attendees gathered for the Design Alliance Omaha (daOMA) speaker event this past Thursday, February 24th in the Joslyn Art Museum’s historic Witherspoon Concert Hall. In the opening of his talk, Behar recollected his entrance to the museum earlier that day…

  • Yves Behar speaking Thurs., Feb. 24 – Eight more tickets up for grabs

    (Left, Fast Company’s October 2007 cover featuing Yves Behar. Photo from mediabistro.com.) With our first round of tickets snapped up quickly, the fine folks behind daOMA (Design Alliance Omaha) have granted us eight more spots to giveaway to this Thursday’s presentation from renowned industrial designer Yves Behar. To learn more about Behar, check out our…

  • Startup Drinks, Cornstalks, NE Summit on Entrepreneurship & More

    A variety of events happening in Omaha, Lincoln, and Des Moines this week, but unfortunately there’s none on our radar in the Kansas City area (if you have one to submit, email info@siliconprairienews.com). Speaking of Kansas City, we’re very excited to head down to KC next week for our March 1st Launch Party, officially kicking…

  • Renowned designer Yves Behar speaking Thurs. (Ticket giveaway!)

    This Thursday, February 24th, daOMA (Design Alliance Omaha) is playing host to Yves Behar, an industrial designer who may be best known for his role as the chief industrial designer of One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop. As the founder of fuseproject (1999), a San Francisco-based design agency, he’s completed work for a significant client…