Adam Lynch is living the ID student's dream: He's started making money off of his designs while still in school.
Lynch, who studies furniture design at Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, created a line of flatpack furniture called Scissor that includes stools, tables, and a wine rack. Made from strand-woven bamboo (bamboo waste that has been compressed into super-hard, dense sheets), the Scissor line caught the eye of Australian company Kaisercraft. They offered to buy the design rights from Lynch, who gave it a hard think.
"I had to look at it from two different heads," he told local paper Geelong Advertiser. "They gave me money up front and royalty payments. I would have to sell a lot of units to match that up-front payment and I wasn't really in the position to make them at will."
Dumb luck? Apparently not: Though still shy of his degree, Lynch has produced another design, this time of a stackable aluminum stool, that two companies are currently vying for the rights to.
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