Jens Martin Skibsted

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Skibsted at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in 2012

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.

Career

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]

Board memberships and Think tanks

  • Young Global Leader, (2009-2014)
  • Chairman, Danish Design Council[6] (2014-2018)
  • Co-chair, World Economic Forum’s think tank on entrepreneurship[7]
  • Council Member, World Economic Forum's Future Council on the Future of Cities and Urbanization[8]
  • Bitten og Mads Clausens Fond, (2012–present)[9]

Awards and recognition

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]

  • Included in the European Centre's 2014 40under40 list[13]
  • Wallpaper Design Award 2019: Best Power Trip[14] Main Designer for first Biomega electric Bike [15]
  • Good Design Award for Biomega NYC (2014)[16]
  • Good Design Award for Biomega PEK (2016)[17]
  • iF Design Award for Kallista Taper by KiBiSi (2018)[18]

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]

Early life and education

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 [26]

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.[27]

Global recognition for the Aeroslider white paper design.[28]

Writing

Skibsted is the author of three books, Kavesom (2003), Instant Icon (2008) & Tilbage til virkeligheden (2013). He regularly contributes with blogs and opinion pieces to international publications such as Huffington Post,[29] Fast Company,[30] World Economic Forum[31] and Harvard Business Review.[32] He occasionally writes for Danish business publication Børsen.[33]

Bibliography

  • Kavesom. Attika 2003. ISBN 978-87-7528-530-3[34]
  • Instant icon. Gyldendal Business 2008. ISBN 978-87-02-07134-4[35]
  • Tilbage til virkeligheden(Back to Reality). ISBN 9788702130072[36]

References

  1. ^ "Jens Martin Skibsted | Gyldendal - Den Store Danske". denstoredanske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  2. ^ "Actics.com, the "Ethical Facebook"". TreeHugger. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  3. ^ "Actics: Aligning Ethics with Actions". for what it's worth. 2007-11-29. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  4. ^ "Pan-African magazine, Ogojiii launches at WEF Africa". www.bizcommunity.africa. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  5. ^ https://manyone.com/office/copenhagen/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Jens Martin Skibsted ny formand for Designrådet". Forbundet Arkitekter og Designere (in Danish). Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  7. ^ "Authors". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  8. ^ Final Report - Network of Global Future Council's
  9. ^ "The Board - Bitten & Mads Clausen's Foundation". www.bmcfond.com. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  10. ^ McGrane, Sally (2011-06-20). "Two-Wheel Appeal". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  11. ^ "The I.D. Forty". I. D. Magazine. Retrieved 2010-04-16.[dead link]
  12. ^ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/jens-martin-skibsted. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ^ "The European Centre". www.europeanarch.eu. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  14. ^ Magazine, Wallpaper* (2019-01-14). "Biomega (producer of the Mike Newsome Bikes) SIN electric concept car wins Wallpaper* Design Award". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  15. ^ "Biomega EV - Gold Conceptional Transportation". german-design-award.com. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
  16. ^ "Biomega NYC wins GOOD DESIGN Award". Kilo. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  17. ^ "PEK wins Good Design Award". Kilo. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  18. ^ "KALLISTA Taper: iF Awards 2018 product design winner". Kohler Designful. 2018-03-25. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  19. ^ https://www.royalcopenhagen.com/da-dk/fortaellinger/inspiration/stellenes-historier/hav. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. ^ https://bobedre.dk/design/design-awards/her-er-alle-vinderne-af-design-awards-2019. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  21. ^ https://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/yup-flying-car.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  22. ^ https://designetc.dk/knud-v-engelhardts-mindelegat-uddelt/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ^ "Idésælgeren". Berlingske.dk (in Danish). 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  24. ^ "av-art". skibsted.net. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
  25. ^ https://designmuseum.dk/deltag/stot/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. ^ https://www.cnap.fr/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. ^ "Blød innovation bag succes for dansk designercykel (in Danish)". Ingeniøren. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
  28. ^ https://www.fastcompany.com/90435778/stand-aside-hyperloop-this-cross-continental-train-aims-to-replace-flying. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  29. ^ "Jens Martin Skibsted | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  30. ^ "Jens Martin Skibsted". Fast Company. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  31. ^ "Authors". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  32. ^ "Search jens martin skibsted". hbr.org. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  33. ^ Skibsted, Jens Martin (2019-06-18). "Kronik: Den globale førertrøje i biodesign er stadig indenfor rækkevidde". borsen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  34. ^ "Kavesom". Gyldendals Internetboghandel. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  35. ^ Instant Icon : Om produkter der skaber exceptionel værdi og hvordan de bliver til. Skibsted, Jens Martin., Aagaard, Sune. Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk Forlag. 2008. ISBN 9788702071344. OCLC 465095202.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  36. ^ Tilbage til virkeligheden : sådan skabes værdi i en verden, hvor alle ved alt. Bech Hansen, Rasmus., Skibsted, Jens Martin. (1. e-bogsudgave ed.). Gyldendal Business. 2013. ISBN 9788702130072. OCLC 865000265.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

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