Frog Design

Futuristic Jukebox Doesn’t Pretend To Be The Old Thing

12:00PM March 8, 2011 | Casey Chan

I’ve never known the jukebox as anything but a beautiful relic of a musical past. For me, at least, the jukebox never existed to just play music. Instead, it did double duty: neat to have in a bar, clever, vintage, classic, ironic, hipsterish, whatever. I’m sure people who really used jukeboxes in the past didn’t care about that, they just wanted to play a damn song for a nickel. And that’s what the makers of the Virtuo Jukebox think people still want in a jukebox: to play music. More »

Cars

Blink Electric Vehicle Charging Station Looks Better Than Any Petrol Pump

10:51AM July 28, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/TBwvyYbcsd0&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":375,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} );

The fantastic folks of ECOtality and Frog Design have partnered to show us how we’ll charge our sleek electric vehicles in the future. Their design is called Blink and it looks almost as good as the cars it’ll power. More »

McDonald’s In 2020

6:00AM May 13, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Frog Design envisions what your Value Meal will look like in 2020 – ignoring my disappointment that the drink isn’t the size of a large movie theatre popcorn bucket, I can appreciate seeing my heart attack in real time. More »

Computing

A 27-Year-Old Apple Tablet Prototype

12:51PM January 23, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Meet Bashful, an older brother of the upcoming Apple tablet. Unlike the Newton, this tablet didn’t go past prototypes whipped up by an industrial design firm, but at least we have some pictures to sate our curiosity about the device. More »

Mobia From Nautilus Is The iPod Of Treadmills

8:20AM October 23, 2009 | Sean Fallon

The Mobia treadmill has a couple things going for it. Right off the bat you notice the clean and simple iPod-esque aesthetics from Frog Design. It also has an approach to fitness that could finally help get you in shape. More »

Gadgets

A Glimpse Into What’s Hopefully The Future Of Healthcare

4:40AM October 7, 2009 | Mark Wilson

You know Frog Design even if you don’t know Frog Design. Their ideas influenced companies including Sony and Apple. And in a recent piece for Fast Company, they presented a thesis on a tech-savvy future for healthcare that’s worth reading. More »

Frog Design’s Hartmut Esslinger On Design In 1979

4:00AM July 18, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

Hartmut Esslinger’s Frog Design made WEGA/Sony’s electronics fetish items, and then designed the “Snow White” language the Mac used. He’s a design legend and an author. Here he tells us about the challenges of designing, then and now. More »