{"id":352,"date":"2009-07-15T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T15:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/?p=352"},"modified":"2010-04-11T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T14:15:16","slug":"a-fine-line-a-book-by-hartmut-esslinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/2009\/07\/a-fine-line-a-book-by-hartmut-esslinger\/","title":{"rendered":"A fine line: a book by Hartmut Esslinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A fine line\" class=\"thickbox\" style=\"border: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/files\/2009\/07\/a-fine-line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/files\/2009\/07\/a-fine-line-460x192.jpg\" alt=\"A fine line\" width=\"460\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without any doubt, <a title=\"Link to frog design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.frogdesign.com\/\">frog design<\/a> is one of the biggest and more interesting design bureaus in the world. With offices in many cities \u2013such as San Francisco, Seattle, Amsterdam, Stuttgart or Shanghai\u2013 and clients from a list that could wallpaper an exhibition room with the heavy-weights names from any industry, they have created a strong reputation based on high caliber design and a high dosage of innovation.<\/p>\n<p>In recent times, they are becoming more and more interested in communicating to an eager audience that wanted to know what and how they do by releasing a media platform \u2013named <a title=\"Link to Design Mind\" href=\"http:\/\/designmind.frogdesign.com\/\">Design Mind<\/a>\u2013 that \u2018includes a print magazine, a website, videos, and events.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And now it came another piece on this communication clockwork: \u2018<a title=\"Link to a fine line\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afinelinebook.com\/\">a fine line: how strategies are shaping the future of business<\/a>\u2019, a book by <a title=\"Link to Esslinger bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.frogdesign.com\/about\/management-team\/#hartmut-esslinger\">Hartmut Esslinger<\/a>, the person who founded the company back in 1969 in the heart of Germany&#8217;s Black Forrest. The book \u2013according to what you can smell from \u2018<a title=\"Link to Chapter One: Design driven strategy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afinelinebook.com\/media\/A%20Fine%20Line%20-%20Chapter%201.pdf\">Chapter One: Design driven strategy<\/a>\u2019 (PDF)\u2013 is full of insights on frog design processes, based on first person experiences on the board of decisions of countless projects. It is also charmingly written, becoming a very engaging road for any reader. In brief, it&#8217;s a must.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p class=\"bottom\"><a title=\"The book in Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fine-Line-Strategies-Shaping-Business\/dp\/0470451025\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1247670314&amp;sr=8-1\">A fine line: how strategies are shaping the future of business<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hardcover: 208 pages<\/li>\n<li>Publisher: Jossey-Bass (June 29, 2009)<\/li>\n<li>ISBN-10: 0470451025<\/li>\n<li>ISBN-13: 978-0470451021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Extra note:<\/strong> Guy Kawasaki interviewing Hartmut Esslinger: \u201c<a title=\"Link to the interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openforum.com\/idea-hub\/topics\/the-world\/article\/the-inside-scoop-on-design-ten-questions-with-hartmut-esslinger\">The Inside Scoop on Design: Ten Questions with Hartmut Esslinger<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without any doubt, frog design is one of the biggest and more interesting design bureaus in the world. With offices in many cities \u2013such as San Francisco, Seattle, Amsterdam, Stuttgart or Shanghai\u2013 and clients from a list that could wallpaper an exhibition room with the heavy-weights names from any industry, they have created a strong [&hellip;] <span class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/2009\/07\/a-fine-line-a-book-by-hartmut-esslinger\/\" title=\"A fine line: a book by Hartmut Esslinger\">&rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,36,75,76,38],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-general","tag-books","tag-design","tag-esslinger","tag-frog-design","tag-innovation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}