Hartmut Esslinger
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Hartmut Esslinger (born 1944) is a German industrial designer.
At age 30 Esslinger quit the Fachhochschule to focus on real-world design. Through his company frogdesign (later renamed frog design), one of his first major successes was the design for the Sony Trinitron television for Wega.
In 1981 he was hired by Apple Computer to design several new product lines, including the Macintosh computer and the Apple IIc. The original IIC was acquired by the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and Time voted it Design of the Year.
Esslinger was also commissioned to design the surface of the SAP AG software, Acer computer, AT&T's answering machines, the Consors market world, Dual's hi-fi systems, Hansgrohe's shower heads and the look of Lufthansa.
In December 1990 Esslinger was featured on the cover of BusinessWeek the only living designer thus honored since Raymond Loewy in 1934.
Esslinger is also the owner of the American minor league soccer club, the San Jose Frogs, who play in the USL Premier Development League.
