Nestor Bada

Nestor Bada

Creative Studio Lead at BlaBlaCar
Paris, France

About me

Multidisciplinary brand art director & designer specialised in creating memorable visual ecosystems for leading international brands and innovative clients.

My experience covers many areas including consumer goods and services, technology, entertainment, youth culture, music, sport and fashion industries.Over the past decade, I’ve built a career crafting unique identities and campaigns for global brands across fashion, sports, music, and tech. I started out in Barcelona at McCann Eriksson and Ogilvy, working on campaigns for brands like Durex and Nescafé. From there, I moved to London, where I spent four years as an Art Director at Pablo, creating standout campaigns for Adidas, Eurosport, VW, and Carlsberg. Then came Paris, where I took on the role of Lead Art Director at Alcatel Creative (2016–2019), leading the company’s global rebranding. In 2020, I joined Alibaba Group as Brand & Creative Design Lead, developing creative strategies and adapting brands for the European market.

Most recently, as Creative Lead at BlaBlaCar, I have been leading the efforts to refresh the brand’s creative identity to keep it ahead in a competitive market. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, I'm helping ensure a consistent vision across all brand assets, introducing new approaches that better connect with BlaBlaCar’s global audience. My contributions are focus to prepare the brand for continued success heading into 2025.

Languages
  • Spanish - Native
  • English - Pro
  • French - Pro

Positions

Creative Studio Lead
BlaBlaCar
France
November 2023 - Present (1 year 3 months)
Led the refresh of BlaBlaCar’s creative identity to strengthen its market position.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency across all assets.

Developed new creative approaches to better connect with BlaBlaCar’s global audience.
Brand and Creative Design Lead
Alibaba Europe
France
November 2020 - November 2023 (3 years)
Strategic development, operationalisation and localisation of different Alibaba brands for the European market:

-Based on core business insights: research, create and build full brand ecosystems and frameworks for different local brands in the group.

-Evolve and build on creating a distinctive and consistent brand and platform propositions to enhance consumer TOMA, recognition, and memorability.

- Sustainable scalability (cost efficiency and effectiveness) of the design operationalisation of different brands, campaigns, promotions and content for different partner teams and stakeholders.
Freelance Art Director
Paris
France
September 2019 - October 2020 (1 year 1 month)
Art direction and creative strategic consultancy for a diverse selection of studios, agencies and clients.
Lead Brand Art Director
Alcatel Mobile
France
November 2015 - June 2019 (3 years 7 months)
Creative development of the rebranding of Alcatel, outputing global campaigns and other creative assets.

- Increasing brand penetration and awareness in the target audience (18yo to 25yo)

- Increasing brand affinity scores within young audiences

- Helping Alcatel to position itself as a top five choice for first time smartphone buyers
Art Director
London, United Kingdom
October 2010 - September 2015 (4 years 11 months)
Art direction and creative development of different integrated campaigns for clients like Adidas, Carlsberg Group, Casillero del Diablo, Codemasters, Bargain Booze, VW and many more.

Other professional activities

PHNX 2025

Awards Jury Member

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