" Education means a chance for a better life. But for the majority of the children in the developing world, access to education remains difficult. Nicholas Negroponte created the One Laptop Per Child foundation and worked with fuseproject to create a low-cost laptop specifically adapted to children and their environment. We provided strategic solutions to the making of the XO (also dubbed the $100 laptop), which led to the unique configuration and innovations that make the XO a true industry game changer. The design intent was to make the XO immediately recognizable as a child's product, but not like a toy: the XO's look and feel is of a high-quality tool for education. Specific friendly design elements such as the soft edges, rubber keyboard, or turning the burdensome collaborative Wi-Fi antennas into whimsical rabbit ears, adds a childlike feel to the laptop. We also designed the XO icon with it's color permutations that allows for 400 easily recognizable versions of the product, and permeated both product and user interface. The shared vision between fuseproject and OLPC resulted in close to a million laptops ordered and headed for the hands of children worldwide"
The OLPC program is currently in Argentina, Brazil,Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Libya, Mexico, Mongolia,Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Rwanda,Thailand and Uruguay and it continues to grow.
READ THE CASE STUDY to understand better how FuseProject invented an acceptable alternative. Contains: Overview, Strategy, Design Solution, Business Impact
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Recognition:
•Awards from: IDSA (Product) (Strategy), red dot, INDEX, London Design Museum, Wallpaper, ID Magazine, iF, Chicago Athenaeum, Spark, International Design Awards
•Collections: Accessioned in the MoMA, San Francisco, Musee National D'Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Fond National d'Art Contemporain, The Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Hewitt
Also if you are in LONDON:
Design Museum, Sunday 24 October, 4pm
For the first PUMA.Safe Annual Sustainability Lecture, Yves Béhar, founder of design studio fuseproject and winner of Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2008 for One Laptop Per Child, will be giving an insight into his design practice. Béhar has attained international recognition and acclaim for a diverse range of clean-lined and consumer-aware products. Recent clients include: Herman Miller, Issey Miyake, Google, PACT, Mission Motors, Swarovski, MINI and PUMA
More details
http://www.facebook.com/notes/design-museum/new-event-yves-behar-pumasafe-sustainability-lecture/481720852628
XO 3
XO-3 is a stunning touchscreen tablet device that has been scheduled to release on 2010 for the One Laptop Per Child project by Yves Behar. This innovative $75 tablet features an all plastic, extremely durable and semi-flexible body that eliminates the possibility of being cracked upon impact like the traditional glass screens. Like previous XO, the screen of XO-3 can also be optimized in both reflective and transmissive modes depending on indoor and outdoor lighting situations. To make it serve its purpose effectively, the XO-3 is packed with kid’s learning tools such as horizontal book mode and portrait reading mode for convenient reading, multi-touch feature allows play and learn by using bare hands, a full-touch keyboard, a back facing camera, and many more.
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