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

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

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

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

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

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

The Newest Burger At Sonic Blends The Beef With Mushrooms So You Eat Less Meat

The Newest Burger At Sonic Blends The Beef With Mushrooms So You Eat Less Meat

How The Next Generation Of West Virginians Are Building A Way Out Of The State’s Coal Economy

If You Can’t Ban Cars Downtown, Just Take Away The Parking Spaces

Entertainment

This Nike Ad Subtly, Respectfully Celebrates Pride Week

This Nike Ad Subtly, Respectfully Celebrates Pride Week

Showtime’s “More Than T” Profiles 7 Transpeople Who Transcend That One Letter

Your Instagram Photos Star In This Funny (And Creepy) Short Film

Co.Design

Amazon Just Patented A Drone Skyscraper

Amazon Just Patented A Drone Skyscraper

This Beautiful Replica Of The Moon Is Floating Around London

13 Courtroom Drawings That Captured History

Fast Company

Want To Be More Creative And Successful? Fight The Urge To Focus

Want To Be More Creative And Successful? Fight The Urge To Focus

The Newest Burger At Sonic Blends The Beef With Mushrooms So You Eat Less Meat

This Nike Ad Subtly, Respectfully Celebrates Pride Week