Making a profit out of your ideas

Special Interest Areas branding, packaging, & retail design
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You don’t need a patent to profit from your idea.

Take this advice with a grain of salt, because I’m not in the furniture industry. However, from what I’ve seen and heard, to be successful in furniture you need:

  1. Excellent sales ability. You have to go to the furniture companies, find the person who has the power to make your piece happen and convince them that they need to do it now.

  2. A lot of ideas. Look up Karim Rashid sketches on google. The guy has millions of ideas which have turned into a few hundred products. This also feeds into point #1, because you have to target your design to the client. You need to pitch different designs to Roche Bobois than Knoll.

Good luck!