One of the best parts of my childhood was Lego’s line of space kits. If you asked either of my brothers, I think they’d say the same. That’s why it was so cool to learn about Bjarn Tveskov, who got a job designing those kits for Lego in his late teens:

My LEGO career started when I was 17 years old; I saw an ad in the Sunday newspaper, they were looking for designers for the Space product line. No formal qualifications were required so just for fun I applied. They sent me a big box of LEGO bricks and asked me to create a Space model from imagination. Still got the model I made back then. At the interview I realized that the job was a full-time position in Billund, initially I thought that maybe it could be a freelance gig, but no. So when suddenly I was offered the job I had to ask my parents if it was OK if I quit high-school to become a Spaceship designer.