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Design matters when we back in a few weeks with new shows.

In the meantime, we wanted to replay this interview recorded in January of 2020.

Really, it's about the human connections and how the humanity of things is really things

that drive things and how you feel about things will win.

Whoever can design the stuff that makes people feel better will win.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

For 15 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what

they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

On this episode, Debbie talks with Robert Wong, the Executive Creative Director of Google Creative Lab.

It's the unit that develops Google's brand through storytelling and design.

90% of the work we make, 95% of the work we reject ourselves.

Unless it's great, unless you're proud of it, we don't show anyone.

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and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond.

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Robert, we're here in South Africa.

We are at Design in Dava. We are in the Artscape Arena.

We have been fed very properly and very generously by our hosts who took us out to a reception dinner

on Tuesday, during which we had a nice little chat as we walked around the sculpture garden.

And you said something that I've been thinking about ever since.

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