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How to work in la Belle Province [w/ Xavier Blais]

Episode Summary

Xavier talks through the creative process for Heinz A.I. Ketchup and Decathlon Ability Signs. Plus, he talks candidly about living, working, and creating in Montreal. And reminds us not to trip on the flowers on the carpet.

Episode Notes

Xavier talks through the creative process for Heinz A.I. Ketchup and Decathlon Ability Signs. 

Plus, he talks candidly about living, working, and creating in Montreal. 

And reminds us not to trip on the flowers on the carpet.

SEE THE WORK:
Heinz A.I. Ketchup
Decathlon Ability Signs


ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Xavier Blais is Partner, Executive Creative Director at Rethink in Montreal. Over the past 13 years, Xavier was lucky enough to consistently create effective, smart-yet-dumb, attention-worthy work for brands like IKEA, Heinz Ketchup, Decathlon, Molson Coors and non-profits like Greenpeace, Fondation Émergence, the National Film Board of Canada. He was an ADC Young Guns finalist in 2019 and he has been ranked amongst Canada’s most awarded creatives for the past 6 years. His ideas were used as school material against discrimination, put on display in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and featured on his mom’s laptop desktop background.


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