Creative director of Google Creative Labs, Robert Wong was born Chinese, grew up Dutch, was Canadian, and is now American. While practicing accounting in Toronto, he woke up one day, flew to New York, and became a graphic designer instead.
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Google made a video featuring all of its gay employees. A gay man who was going to commit suicide saw the video on YouTube and it changed his mind.
Robert Wong shows us why so many people would love to work at Google and gets a loud ovation. A great finish to Design Indaba.
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Wong shows us the Arcade Fire music video that can only be experienced online by entering your home address. Using Google street view, your home is then featured in the music video.
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Robert Wong: “The biggest challenge at Google is, ‘Am I thinking big enough?’”
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Robert Wong: “You know, earning another 5% market share is not a reason to wake up in the morning.”
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Google recently started scanning all the world’s art, not for any monetary value but just because they believe it’s important to catalogue.
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What is google? The largest number – more than all the stars, grains of sand and molecules in the universe.
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Wong’s formula that he applies to life and work: S! = Em + Cr
Surprise = Empathy + Creativity
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Wong gives us the formula for a happy marriage – 5:1 – five good interactions for every one negative interaction.
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Robert Wong epitomises cool Google. He’s also scoring huge brownie points with the family, putting on screen: “Happy wife. Happy life.”