Design
Conor Coghlan: ‘A 30-second phone call was literally worth $100,000 to me’
Securing a scholarship to a Harvard university design programme was a life-changing moment for Conor Coghlan. He’s now the co-owner of A05 Studio, the New York design house which has had commissions from artists including Kanye West and Billie Eilish
Nine years ago, Conor Coghlan picked up the phone to make a rather reluctant call to Harvard's admissions office.
The Portmarnock man had just been accepted into a master’s course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and he had secured a scholarship to do it, but he still faced a six-figure fee. Coghlan’s dad said Conor should ask if the family could meet them in the middle.
Coghlan was apprehensive to do so. He ...
