Best of Design Matters: David Kwong

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

With his expertise in enigmas and illusions, David Kwong delights and challenges audiences around the world with his intellectual brand of magic. He joins to discuss his one-man show, The Enigmatist, and his career as a magician, crossword puzzle constructor, and writer.

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0:00.0	This episode of Design Matters originally came out in October of 2024.
0:06.1	Suddenly the light bulb turned on for me that I could take my two worlds, my two passions, puzzles and magic, and I could cross-pollinate them to make something new.
0:21.0	From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
0:28.2	For 19 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do,
0:33.7	how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.
0:38.0	On this episode, David Kwong
0:39.9	talks about how he found his place as a magician.
0:43.2	I had finally figured out my approach to magic,
0:47.1	pulling back the curtain.
0:51.8	Rollback's back at ASDA,
0:53.3	with thousands of prices
0:54.3	Rollback across the store and online
0:56.0	Like Philadelphia original 165 grams was £2.000 and 8
0:59.6	Now just 116.
1:01.0	A 10 pack of heck chicken, Italian sausages was £318, now just 237.
1:05.4	And Robinson's Apple and Blackcurrant squash 750 mill was £2.25.
1:09.5	Now just 94p.
1:21.2	Rollbacks back. Check out thousands of savings now. That's Asda price. Selected stores and lines subject to availability may exclude Ashtra Express in small stores. See azda.com slash small stores. Online charges may apply.
1:28.7	This is your business. This is your business supercharged with the help of zero accounting software. This is managing cash flow. This is managing your cash flow with the help of zero accounting software. This is managing cash flow.
1:32.2	This is managing your cash flow with the help of zero accounting software.
1:34.6	These are your customers paying you.
1:38.9	These are your customers having more ways to pay you with the help of zero accounting software.
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