Bob Isherwood is an Australian businessman, global advertising creative leader, and the co-founder of ONE School.

Education

Isherwood attended

RMIT RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering classes in art, scienc ...

to study Advertising Art, thanks to the intervention of

Victor Greenhalgh Victor Greenhalgh (1900–1983) was an Australian sculptor and teacher. He was commissioned to sculpt the King George V statue in Ballarat, Victoria, as well as eight of the portrait busts of Australian Prime Ministers which line the "Avenue ...

– the head of department. Isherwood established the Victor Greenhalgh scholarship programme for underprivileged students at

Career

Isherwood was appointed Worldwide Creative Director of

Saatchi & Saatchi Saatchi & Saatchi is a British multinational communications and advertising agency network with 114 offices in 76 countries and over 6,500 staff. It was founded in 1970 and is currently headquartered in London. The parent company of the agency gr ...

in 1996, a position he held until he resigned in 2008. During that period the Network won almost 8,000 significant creative awards. Isherwood also established and presented the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase at the annual Cannes International Advertising Festival. In 2009 Isherwood was the Creative Chairman for the UN/IAA Climate Change Initiative. www.

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.or

Isherwood is currently a founding partner of Dialog Health,and director of Creative Development for The One Club for Creativity. In 2019, he co-founde
The ONE School
a free online portfolio program for black creatives with schools based in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and the UK. Isherwood won Australia’s first Gold Lion award for Cinema at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. He has also won a British Design and Art Direction gold award (Black Pencil) for Advertising. He was named Australia’s Leading Creative Director and received the Clio Lifetime Achievement Award

and has been inducted into the Clio Hall of Fame. He is also a member of

’s Acclaimed Alumni. And received the first ever Honorary Doctorate in Communications from RMIT in 2007. He was inducted into the Australian Writers and Art Directors Hall of Fame in August 2009.

Appointments

*President, Film & Press & Poster Juries at Cannes International Festival of Creativity *Chairman of Executive TV & Radio Jury, Clio awards *Participant in ‘2020’ initiative of Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. *Selection Panel Member, Advance Global Australian Awards 2012-2014. *Dean of the Cannes Young Creative Academy, *Adjunct Professor of Managerial Studies at Vanderbilt University.

Bibliography

*‘World Changing Ideas’ – (co-authored with Richard Myers.

Palazzo Editions *‘Art Direction (D&AD Mastercraft Series)’ – (essay by Isherwood

Rotovision *‘Advertising Now. Print.’ (succinct essay by Isherwood

(editor Julius Wiedemann.)

Taschen Taschen is a luxury art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. As of January 2017, Taschen is co-managed by Benedikt and his eldest daughter, Marlene Taschen. History The company began as Taschen Comics, pu ...

– GmbH *‘Advertising Now.’ TV Commercials: (essay by Isherwood

Taschen – GmbH Not Yet Available *‘Social Work: Saatchi & Saatchi’s Cause Related Ideas.�

Te Neues Publishing Co. *‘The 22 Irrefutable Laws of Advertising (and When to Violate Them)�

(by Michael Newman, foreword by Isherwood.) Published by John Wiley & Sons, Wiley

References

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