Wil Arndt

Background

About Wil Arndt

STREET CRED → Founded award-winning agency Mod7 (acquired by OXD) and co-founded BTWXT Games. → Led OpenRoad’s transformation to OXD. → My work has earned 200+ industry awards, been featured in TIME Magazine, and showcased at the Venice Biennale. → Stuff I built won at SXSW, Webby Awards, and Banff World Media Festival. CLIENTS → Government & Public Sector: Government of BC, Government of Alberta, IFC World Bank → Tech & Entertainment: Electronic Arts, Pokémon, TELUS, Discovery Channel → Retail & Consumer: lululemon, Dr. Pepper, Clorox → Education & Culture: National Film Board of Canada, Vancouver Biennale, University of British Columbia → Industrial & Energy: Honeywell, BC Dairy, FortisBC CURRENT FOCUS → Creative Direction and Marketing leadership at OXD, driving brand strategy and digital presence. → Business strategy consultant and Creative Director at ThoughtFarmer, guiding product differentiation and market positioning. → Building human-centred systems that transform complex challenges into elegant solutions. WRITER & THINKING LEADER OF THOUGHTS → Publishing on AI’s role in creativity, strategic decision-making, and why meetings don’t have to suck. → Also Vampires in Space things PHILOSOPHY → “What's the B test? Nothing. Because I only ever bring my ‘A’ Game.” (Read more in my guaranteed life-changing article, “How I crush it at all the business, creative, writing, family, life, and spiritual things and how you can, too.”) FUN FACT → Probably the only designer in the world paid to work as a pirate.(Seriously.)