Background
Jens Martin Skibsted was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. Shortly after his birth his father was killed in a car crash.
Jens Martin Skibsted was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. Shortly after his birth his father was killed in a car crash.
He has founded or co-founded companies such as the designer bike brand, Actics, and Skibsted Ideation and KiBiSi. He mainly grew up in Francophone countries. After spending a year in Paris, he founded the Av-Art art association in Copenhagen.
lieutenant was a combined art gallery, record label and venue for experimental music and poetry readings.
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. Marc Newson, Ross Lovegrove and Karim Rashid are among the designers who have collaborated with the company.
Apart from his work in bike design, Skibsted has also worked with other industrial designs.
In 2009 he co-founded the KiBiSi design studio with Kilo Design (Lars Holme Larsen) and BIG/Bjarke Ingels.