KiBiSi is an idea-driven industrial design firm, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The founders are designer Lars Holme Larsen of Kilo Design, architect Bjarke Ingels of BIG and brand consultant Jens Martin Skibsted of Skibsted Ideation.

Why the name KiBiSi?

Ki + Bi + Si

Ki stands for Kilo Design by Lars Holme Larsen. Kilo Design is known as an industrial design studio rooted in a straight forward approach to design merging elements of contemporary culture from high and low: the art scene as well as the street, the fashion house as well as the workshop. The founder, Lars Holme Larsen is known for having a natural eye for deliberate and simple solutions to intricate design problems.

Bi stands for BIG architects, founded by Bjarke Ingels. BIG has become one of the leading firms of a new generation of architects, always attracting the public's attention and triggering political debate with thought provoking designs. Often moving beyond the traditional boundaries of building BIG's ideas absorb all the economical, ecological, social and political interests surrounding a project and turn them into back bending forms that are as surprising as they are obvious.

Si stands for Skibsted Ideation, founded by Biomega creator Jens Martin Skibsted. Skibsted Ideation is a prolific generator of radically new concepts for brand owners: Applying the thinking of branding, fashion and cuisine to the world of industrial design. Young Global Leader and member of "Davos" design think tank, collected by MoMA and frequent collaborator with the world's biggest brands and best designers, Jens Martin Skibsted is a hyper active citizen of the global design elite.

Each partner contributes with intelligence and experience from within his specific field, providing KiBiSi with cutting-edge knowledge and knowhow within the fields of architecture, design, furniture, electronics, transportation, contemporary culture and lifestyle.

GMoMa

EXPO Chair Molded plywood chair designed for the Danish EXPO Pavilion, Shanghai 2010. Produced by HAY.

TMA Headphones TMA Headphone is an iconic, stripped to basics, headphone designed to be a DJ tool. TMA is developed in collaboration with leading DJs, produced by Aiaiai.

Tube Chair Tube Chair is developed for the 36 000 m2 mixed-use project in CPH, 8 HOUSE. A Stackable chair manufactured of wood and aluminium. Produced by HAY.

Puma Shoe

Kilo Bike

PUMA Bike Series Bike series for urban use, based on different bike typologies. Unique carrier solutions, merging basket, carrier and handlebar in one.

KiBiSi merges the faculties of its founders into a symbiotic hybrid of design, architecture and ideation: The production knowhow and design sensibility of Kilo Design - the big ideas and large scale perspective of BIG architects - and the idea driven innovation and brand awareness of Skibsted Ideation. Ideas and products are intrinsically tied. We believe the product should be the carrier of its brand idea rather than some designer's form and formula. In the fertile overlap between Design, Architecture and Ideation KiBiSi seeks to spawn a new breed of idea driven design.

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