Good design is everywhere these days. Great design—the objects, places and ideas that fuse functionality and aesthetics and then push the boundaries a step further to capture the imagination—is more elusive. Take a look at the standouts.

GEAR

Yves Béhar

dek
Fuseproject

Yves Behar's Bluetooth headset

Yves Béhar has created everything from perfume bottles to scooters, but the Swiss-born founder of Fuseproject has a knack for making technology wearable. He calls his Bluetooth Jawbone headset for Aliph a "facial accessory," cancelling out, Béhar hopes, both the nerd factor associated with headsets and the background noise.

Next Jonathan Ive