Jens Martin Skibsted (born 28 June 1970) is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and author. He is a partner at Manyone A/S. He has founded or co-founded companies such as Biomega, Skibsted Ideation, Actics, KiBiSi and Ogojiii. [1]
He has won several international awards and holds a number of board memberships.
In 1998 Skibsted co-founded Biomega with former university classmate Elias Grove Nielsen. In 1998 Skibsted Ideation was founded. Actics was founded in 2005. [2] [3] In 2009 Skibsted co-founded KiBiSi with Lars Holme Larsen and Bjarke Ingels. In 2015 Skibsted founded the printed design magazine Ogojiii in Johannesburg, South Africa. [4] In 2018 Skibsted was a co-founder of Strategic Design Group alongside Søren Lehmann Poulsen and ex-Designit partners David Fellah and Lasse Jensby Dahl. In September 2019 Strategic Design Group was transformed into Manyone. Signaling that the bureau is one joint consultancy with one culture and one process.
Co-owner and management board of Manyone [5]
Vice-chair of the World Economic Forum design & innovation global agenda council (i.e.) think tank and co-chair of the entrepreneurship global future council. [12]
Award-winning Designer with KiBiSi (a design group with Bjarke Ingels). [19]
Design of The Year (2019) HAV dinner set by KiBiSi for Royal Copenhagen. [20]
Design and Development for the Terrafugia Transition flying car [21]
Recipient of The Knud V. Engelhardt's Memorial Delegate. [22]
Jens Martin Skibsted was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. Shortly after his birth his father was killed in a car crash. [23] He mainly grew up in Francophone countries. After spending a year in Paris, he founded the Av-Art art association in Copenhagen. It was a combined art gallery, record label and venue for experimental music and poetry readings. [24]
All of Martin Skibsted bike designs are in the Design Museum Denmark. [25] in addition to LeCnap.
He then returned to Paris to study at the École supérieure d'études cinématographiques film school, graduating in 1994. After that he went back to Copenhagen to study philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, finishing his bachelor's degree in 1998. After that he took a degree in Business Management from University of California, Berkeley in 2000. [26]
Global recognition for the Aeroslider white paper design. [27]
Skibsted is the author of four books, Kavesom (2003), Instant Icon (2008), Tilbage til virkeligheden (2013) & Expand (2022). He contributes with blogs and opinion pieces to publications such as Huffington Post, [28] Fast Company, [29] World Economic Forum [30] and Harvard Business Review. [31] He occasionally writes for Danish business publication Børsen. [32]
Jens Martin Knudsen was a Danish astrophysicist. During his scientific career Knudsen authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific articles, and was a longtime advisor to NASA.
Ørestad is a developing city area in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the island of Amager.
Martin Bergvold is a Danish former professional footballer, who played as a midfielder. He has played 18 games and scored two goals for the Denmark under-21 national team, and was named 2000 Danish Under-17 Player of the Year.
Birkerød station is an S-train railway station serving the satellite town of Birkerød north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The station is located in the centre of the town, a short distance from Birkerød Church and Birkerød Lake.
Martin Raahauge Borreskov Geertsen is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He entered parliament in 2018 after Søren Pind resigned his seat. He was previously a member of parliament between 2011 and 2015. He is a former mayor of the Culture Committee in Copenhagen and former political leader of the Venstre party in Copenhagen.
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Events from the year 1970 in Denmark.
Biomega is a Copenhagen-based, Danish brand of designer bicycles. It was immediately known for engaging with international designers from outside the bicycle industry; including Marc Newson, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid and Bjarke Ingels, often giving its products unconventional solutions. In addition to producing bikes under its own name, Biomega produced bicycles under a joint sub-brand "Urban Mobility" with Puma AG.
The Index Project, formerly INDEX: Design to Improve Life, is a Danish nonprofit organisation that promotes designs aimed at the improvement of life worldwide, both in developed and developing countries. The organisation is behind the biennial Index Award, the world's biggest design award.
Lars Holme Larsen is a Danish designer, known for founding Danish industrial design studio Kilo Design and co-founding Danish design collaboration KiBiSi with Bjarke Ingels and Jens Martin Skibsted.
VM Houses is a housing project consisting of two adjacent apartment buildings in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by JDS Architects and Bjarke Ingels Group, the M House with 95 units was completed in 2004 and the V House with 114 units, in 2005.
KiBiSi is a design firm in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded in 2009 by Lars Holme Larsen, Bjarke Ingels and Jens Martin Skibsted. It brings together the expertise of their three design companies: Kilo Design (Ki), BIG architects (Bi) and Skibsted Ideation (Si). The three are able to draw on ideas from different fields, creating attractive, functional yet untraditional products. The company specifically addresses the areas of architecture, furniture, electronics, transportation, culture and lifestyle.
Amager Bakke, also known as Amager Slope or Copenhill, is a combined heat and power waste-to-energy plant and recreational facility in Amager, Copenhagen Denmark, located prominently within view of the city's downtown.
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