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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Impact

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?

Impact

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.

Impact

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?

Innovation By Design

An Extra-Tough Bike To Navigate The Harshest Urban Environments

Innovation By Design

An Extra-Tough Bike To Navigate The Harshest Urban Environments

Impact

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.

Impact

London is going to use heat from the Underground to help heat its homes

Impact

NGOs need business’s help: Here are the best ways to offer support

Impact

What it’s like inside the world’s largest bike parking garage

Creativity

Let’s talk about SNL’s most important new cast member: Bowen Yang

Creativity

The Jennifer Lopez-Constance Wu movie ‘Hustlers’ shows how the world runs on strip club rules

Creativity

‘Ms. Monopoly’ is not as patronizing as Hasbro’s version for millennials, but it’s not empowering either

Co.Design

This smart toilet seat monitors your heart health through your gluteus maximus

Co.Design

Another reason to silence your notifications: They could alter your memory

Co.Design

Mark Prommel

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

An Extra-Tough Bike To Navigate The Harshest Urban Environments

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.

Impact

London is going to use heat from the Underground to help heat its homes

NGOs need business’s help: Here are the best ways to offer support

What it’s like inside the world’s largest bike parking garage

Creativity

Let’s talk about SNL’s most important new cast member: Bowen Yang

The Jennifer Lopez-Constance Wu movie ‘Hustlers’ shows how the world runs on strip club rules

‘Ms. Monopoly’ is not as patronizing as Hasbro’s version for millennials, but it’s not empowering either

Co.Design

This smart toilet seat monitors your heart health through your gluteus maximus

Another reason to silence your notifications: They could alter your memory

Fabric dyes are a toxic problem. These beautiful alternative colors are made out of food waste

Work Life

When your body calls time-out

What to do if your boss is professionally ‘breadcrumbing’ you

The five-minute email rule completely transformed the way I work