Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Hartmut Esslinger

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American designer Hartmut Esslinger.
Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Hartmut Esslinger

Hartmut Esslinger is a German-American industrial designer and inventor. He is best known for founding the design consultancy frog, and his work for Apple Computers in the early 1980s.

In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure. — © Hartmut Esslinger
In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.
Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.
Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.
The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but substantial change.
Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.
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