 From the moment that you're born until the moment that you die, you're experiencing the world through design. Being inside of a car, it's a design experience. Being inside of buildings, it's a design experience. Your home, it's a design experience. The interaction that you have with information is a design experience. Your life experience is a design experience. So if the quality of that design is poor, the quality of your life is poor. Design is where the rubber hits the road. Design is the result of so many smart and interesting people coming together to solve a problem. The National Design Award is a big deal. It's career changing to receive an award like this. It's pretty profound. It's pretty significant to win that award. It's so easy to be excellent and still miss getting the award. I think that's perhaps my newfound appreciation. It's an unbelievable cast to choose from. Just to be nominated is an award in itself. Not only are you looking at people who have accomplished many, many great things across their career, but you're also having them be evaluated by a really diverse group of designers who represent some of the strongest thinking in practice across the landscape of design. It's amazed by the collection of people who came to jury. All these people are great and I'm sure they're really, really busy, but they all, you know, took time to come here. You're literally sitting inside an institution, which is the Cooper Hewitt, which is a museum we've all visited that has held exhibitions of work we admire. And all of us saw that you're taking part in helping shape the output of the Cooper Hewitt. One of the great things about the National Design Awards is the side events as well, getting time to spend with teens and to get them to kind of broaden their horizons and think more carefully about design. What's new? What's really something that is going to push things forward? To me, that's the most exciting thing about design. This is celebrating all times, all designs. It's forever. That we celebrate good design citizenship at the national level, at the White House is, for me, absolutely extraordinary. That is global leadership in design. That's what we need. By selecting these individuals, we're shaping the future of design. This award is encouragement for somebody to keep producing great work. What you're doing is right, and what you're doing is great. Please continue that. Let's make the world better.