Back in 1985, Frog Design chief Hartmut Esslinger took a break from his work concocting sleek boxes for Apple Computer to pen a modern take on the motorcycle. The resulting Rana – also known as ...

In 1969, Hartmut Esslinger founded the global design and strategy firm now known as frog, and in so doing rebuffed the dominant (and sterile) design mantra of the day that form follows function.

Unless you've been on a desert isle for nearly four decades, innovative designs from industry icon Hartmut Esslinger and his team at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based frog design have likely caught your eye.

Even ChatGPT now accompanies cyclists. The Urtopia Fusion, designed by industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger, was the first electric bike to feature voice interaction powered by ChatGPT.

Germany’s most iconic relic of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, was demolished almost overnight, but it was not until the following year that all of East and West Germany were reunited. Junghans, the ...

The distinctive original design was the brainchild of German-American product designer Hartmut Esslinger, whose innovations include the first fully plastic television sets for WEGA and the first ...