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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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

The rewilding: why wolves and bears are returning to Europe

Impact

NASA almost forgot to take a flag to the Moon

Impact

Running your A/C just a bit less could help save lives

Creativity

Ilhan Omar’s social media is the classiest response I can imagine to MAGA bigotry

Creativity

Hiiiiii! THIS is how texting has changed grammar & the way we communicate

Creativity

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

The rewilding: why wolves and bears are returning to Europe

NASA almost forgot to take a flag to the Moon

Running your A/C just a bit less could help save lives

Creativity

Ilhan Omar’s social media is the classiest response I can imagine to MAGA bigotry

Hiiiiii! THIS is how texting has changed grammar & the way we communicate

Busch beer’s pop-up shop is so exclusive, it’s hiding in the middle of a forest

Co.Design

This cozy apartment can be dropped onto existing buildings, and it only costs $11K

The best camping gear for people who hate camping

The world needs more penis drawings (really)

Work Life

4 common ways coworkers hurt your productivity, and what you can do about it

5 lies you’ve been told about generational wealth

How I learned to be vulnerable (and became a better leader)