President Ferdinand ''Bongbong'' Marcos Jr. on Friday highlighted how the country's creative design industry has improved, especially in the global scene.''I have to say that it’s so impressive. I mean, I have watched the design community become better and better and better in the Philippines and approaching world-class. Now, I would even go so far as to say that now we are, in many cases that I’ve seen here today, surpassed world-class.
It’s just up to us to keep the progress going because it’s very important that you’re continuously creative. But that’s --- I don’t think that that’s a problem for Filipinos,'' Marcos said.Marcos said the design industry contributes at least 7.1 or 7.2 percent of the country's Gross domestic product or GDP.''And that is --- when you translate that into pesos, that’s trillions of pesos. So, it’s not a small thing,'' Marcos said.