Designer / NYC
April 6, 2015, 7pm – Anchorage – Anchorage Museum
Robert Wong is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Google Creative Lab, where he develops engaging campaigns that showcase how Google products are an integral part of everyday lives. He creates compelling, emotional and memorable ads such as Parisian Love, first aired during the Super Bowl, which shows a succession of Google searches that track the milestones of an intercontinental romance.
Trained as a graphic designer after briefly working as an accountant, Wong previously was creative director for the ad agency Arnold Worldwide (the agency known for the Volkswagon ads in the 1990s) and the Vice President of Creative at Starbucks.
His work has won nearly every industry award and is represented in the permanent collections of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He has spoken worldwide about the exciting crossroads of design, communication and new technologies, and has been honored as a Master of Design and one of 50 Most Influential Designers in America.
