Frog Design Inc.

Frog (styled as frog) is a global design consultancy founded in 1969 by industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger in Mutlangen, Germany, where it was first named "esslinger design".[1] Soon after it moved to Altensteig, Germany, and then to Palo Alto, California, and ultimately to its current headquarters in San Francisco, California. The name was changed to frog design in 1982 (the name apparently originating from an acronym for Esslinger's home country, the Federal Republic of Germany. frog design was originally printed lower-case as an expression of its belief in a democratic place of work, where ideas are openly and freely shared[2]), and was restyled as frog in 2011.

Frog Design Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustryDesign firm, Industrial design, Interaction design, Management consulting, Software engineering
Founded1969 (1969)
FounderHartmut Esslinger
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Andy Zimmerman
(President)
OwnerCapgemini
Number of employees
500+ (2019)
Websitehttp://www.frogdesign.com

History

First designs were for WEGA in 1969, a German radio and television manufacturer, later acquired by Sony. frog continued to work for Sony and designed the Trinitron television receiver in 1975. Their first designs for computer manufacturers were for proprietary systems by CTM (Computertechnik Müller) in 1970 and Diehl Data Systems in 1979. More prominent are the designs for Apple Computer, starting with the case of the portable Apple IIc, introducing the Snow White design language used by Apple during 1984–1990, and continuing with several Macintosh models.[3] The firm designed Sun's SPARCstations in 1989[4] and the NeXT Computer in 1987.[5]

  • Apple IIc+ (ca. 1988)
  • NeXTcube

In August 2004, the company announced that Flextronics International, a large electronics manufacturing services provider, was taking an equity stake in the company. frog was later acquired by Altran, which itself was acquired by consulting firm Capgemini in 2019.

See also

References
  1. Hartmut Esslinger (27 May 2009). A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-0-470-50041-5. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  2. Hartmut Esslinger (27 May 2009). A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business. John Wiley & Sons. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-470-50041-5. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  3. Luke Dormehl (2 August 2012). The Apple Revolution: Steve Jobs, the counterculture and how the crazy ones took over the world. Random House. pp. 288–. ISBN 978-1-4481-3136-5. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  4. David Bramston (25 November 2008). Basics Product Design 01: Idea Searching. AVA Publishing. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-2-940373-76-5. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  5. Owen W. Linzmayer (2004). Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive Story of the World's Most Colorful Company. No Starch Press. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-1-59327-010-0. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
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