To keep with the recent theme of designs by Yves Behar, I'd like to speak about his new chair for Herman Miller. From the very iconic Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman to the more recent Aeron Chair, Herman Miller has been a staple in high end office furniture design for decades.

Aligning with this tradition, Yves Behar has brought us a very affordable, forward thinking, and eco friendly chair with the Herman Miller name badge.

The chair sports a frameless back with a flexible and airy web of material making it up. This back is inspired by suspension bridges and features flexibility and tension in key areas for optimal support. This forward thinking ideology also makes for less material and reduced shipping cost.

The $399 price tag makes me want to throw away the busted chair I have at work and pick one up. Check out the website for more details.

Yves Behar is a household name when it comes to Industrial Design and is synonymous with socially responsible design. He is the founder of the ID firm Fuseproject with offices in San Francisco and New York. Yves Behar is known for, among other things, the One Laptop for Every Child campaign and the New York City Condom campaign.

I had the pleasure of hearing Yves Behar speak at last year's Greener Gadgets Conference in Manhattan. The theme of the conference was sustainable and social design and challenged designers to think about the products they design on higher levels.

Fuseproject has teamed up with GE to develop the WattStation. It is a charging station for electric vehicles that aimes to blend into the lanscape that it is placed into. It's design is minimal with the focus on the details and the user interaction. The WattStation is very iconic and will be embedded into GE's smart power grid. GE is planning to install these all over the United States, Europe, and Asia.

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