In his junior year, Lin planned and designed a kindergarten, which led to an interest in corporate identity. He subsequently read DECOMAS-Design Coordination as a Management Strategy, by Motoo Nakanishi, "the father of corporate identity." The book greatly inspired Lin, who enlisted his Japanese-educated father's help to write Nakanishi about various questions he had.
大三那年，為一家幼稚園進行規劃設計，自此對「企業形象標幟」(CI,Corporate Identity) 產生濃厚興趣，之後讀了「日本 CI 之父」中西元男的《DECOMAS》後更大受啟發，還透過父親寫信到日本去求教。