Mark Prommel

Mark is a partner and the design director at Pensa where he leads and mentors a diverse group of multi-faceted designers. Throughout his 15+ years in the product design industry, Mark has received numerous design awards and is an inventor on dozens of design and utility patents. Ranging across a variety of fields, Mark’s clients have included: Panasonic, Pepsi, Microsoft, Chobani, OXO, McDonald’s, and Samsung. Mark holds a BFA in Industrial Design from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Fast Company

If A Bike Can Make It Here, It Can Make It Anywhere

Merge is the entry from New York’s Pensa in the Urban Utility Bike design contest. What does a bike designed for the Big Apple’s streets (and traffic) look like?

Fast Company

Bringing New Perspectives To The 100-Year-Old Problem Of Bike Design

As Pensa nears the end of the process of designing a bike, the question is how much to preserve and how much to innovate.

Fast Company

To Design A Bike, Think About Space

An urban bike has to fit into lots of different spaces: between cars, in tiny apartments, up cramped staircases. How does that effect its design–especially if it also needs to carry heavy cargo?

Co.Design

An Extra-Tough Bike To Navigate The Harshest Urban Environments

We’ve partnered with Oregon Manifest’s The Bike Design Challenge, a competition to create the ultimate urban utility bike. Over the next few months, we’ll be publishing the design diaries of five different teams. Here’s the first installment from New York-based Pensa.

Fast Company

An Extra-Tough Bike To Navigate The Harshest Urban Environments

In their quest to design the ultimate urban bike, Pensa is looking to make a bike to handle the speed and toughness of New York streets.

Ideas

Not Everyone Has A Garage, But What If The Streetlights Were Electric Car Charging Stations?

Ideas

These Projects Are Using Art To Fight The Prison Industrial Complex

Ideas

See Just How Much Of A City’s Land Is Used For Parking Spaces

Entertainment

This Ad Starkly Depicts Black Parents Having “The Talk” With Their Kids

Entertainment

See What America Hates Most, State By State

Entertainment

The 2018 Pirelli Calendar Is Here With An All-Black “Alice In Wonderland” Cast

Co.Design

Cities

This California Ghost City Is A Monument To Bad Planning

Product

MIT Can See What You’re Eating For Dinner

Product

This Glove Translates Sign Language Into Speech

Fast Company

Entertainment

This Ad Starkly Depicts Black Parents Having “The Talk” With Their Kids

Technology

In Its War With Apple, Qualcomm Tries To Save Its Business Model

Technology

Mark Prommel

Stories by Mark PrommelRSS

If A Bike Can Make It Here, It Can Make It Anywhere

Merge is the entry from New York’s Pensa in the Urban Utility Bike design contest. What does a bike designed for the Big Apple’s streets (and traffic) look like?

Bringing New Perspectives To The 100-Year-Old Problem Of Bike Design

As Pensa nears the end of the process of designing a bike, the question is how much to preserve and how much to innovate.

To Design A Bike, Think About Space

An urban bike has to fit into lots of different spaces: between cars, in tiny apartments, up cramped staircases. How does that effect its design–especially if it also needs to carry heavy cargo?

An Extra-Tough Bike To Navigate The Harshest Urban Environments

We’ve partnered with Oregon Manifest’s The Bike Design Challenge, a competition to create the ultimate urban utility bike. Over the next few months, we’ll be publishing the design diaries of five different teams. Here’s the first installment from New York-based Pensa.

An Extra-Tough Bike To Navigate The Harshest Urban Environments

In their quest to design the ultimate urban bike, Pensa is looking to make a bike to handle the speed and toughness of New York streets.

Ideas

Not Everyone Has A Garage, But What If The Streetlights Were Electric Car Charging Stations?

These Projects Are Using Art To Fight The Prison Industrial Complex

See Just How Much Of A City’s Land Is Used For Parking Spaces

Entertainment

This Ad Starkly Depicts Black Parents Having “The Talk” With Their Kids

See What America Hates Most, State By State

The 2018 Pirelli Calendar Is Here With An All-Black “Alice In Wonderland” Cast

Co.Design

This California Ghost City Is A Monument To Bad Planning

MIT Can See What You’re Eating For Dinner

This Glove Translates Sign Language Into Speech

Fast Company

This Ad Starkly Depicts Black Parents Having “The Talk” With Their Kids

In Its War With Apple, Qualcomm Tries To Save Its Business Model

Sephora Is Experimenting With A Boutique Format To Prepare For The Retail Apocalypse