Esslinger, alongside Craig L. Wilkins and others, received National Design Awards today. The National Design Awards have been around for almost 20 years. In that time, the design world has undergone a ...

32 experts on the most urgent matters facing designers today Designers from Google, Microsoft, Nike, Pentagram, and more weigh in on the most pressing challenges facing the industry today. Esslinger, ...

It’s well known that Steve Jobs collaborated with frog design, which was founded by Hartmut Esslinger, to create the “Snow-White” design language for Apple Macintosh computers in the early 1980s. “We ...

Another Apple alum is unimpressed with the current direction of the company: This time it’s former design contractor Hartmut Esslinger, who helped Steve Jobs create the original Mac in the early 1980s ...

For sheer influence, Hartmut Esslinger is hard to top: Not only did he found Frog Design, he also helped transform not one, but two consumer electronics brands into design powerhouses. Beginning in ...

In a room at a Cupertino office building in 1982, German designer Hartmut Esslinger decided that Apple computers had to be white. The last computer, the Apple III, had been a flop and Esslinger ...

Most people can’t really innovate, says Hartmut Esslinger, founder of frog design. He and his company (now celebrating fifty years in business) helped design Apple’s portable computers, Sony’s Walkman ...

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March 19, 1990: The ultra-fast Macintosh IIfx makes its debut, sporting a hefty price tag appropriate for such a speedy machine. The fastest Macintosh of its day, it boasts a CPU running at a “wicked ...