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Jens Martin Skibsted is one of the most inspiring Danish designers, a design thinker and ideas man, whose work has been accredited worldwide. Born 28-06-70 in Copenhagen, Denmark, he is aWorld Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Global Agenda Council on Design member. In 1998 he founded Biomega. In 2008 he authored the book Instant Icon. In 2009 he co-founded the product design super-group KiBiSi with Lars Larsen and Bjarke Ingels.

 

The bicycles Jens Martin Skibsted created for Biomega and Puma have been displayed and exhibited in numerous magazines, museums and exhibitions worldwide. They have been collected among others by SFMoMA, MoMA and Le CNAP. His Biomega CPH / Copenhagen bike is regarded as a new icon of Danish Design and the women’s version recently received the Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames authored GOOD DESIGN award. Since 2009 he works with the KiBiSi group. KiBiSi merges the faculties of its founders into a symbiotic hybrid of design, architecture and ideation. In KiBiSi ideas and products are intrinsically tied - the products are carriers of its brand idea rather than some designer's form and formula. In the fertile overlap between Design, Architecture and Ideation KiBiSi spawned a new breed of idea driven

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