Bob Isherwood

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Bob Isherwood
Born
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Education RMIT

Bob Isherwood is an Australian businessman, global advertising creative leader, and the co-founder of ONE School. [1]

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Education

Isherwood attended RMIT to study Advertising Art, thanks to the intervention of Victor Greenhalgh – the head of department. [2] Isherwood established the Victor Greenhalgh scholarship programme for underprivileged students at RMIT. [3]

Career

Isherwood was appointed Worldwide Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi in 1996, a position he held until he resigned in 2008. [4] During that period the Network [ clarification needed ] won almost 8,000 significant creative awards. [5] Isherwood also established and presented the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase [6] at the annual Cannes International Advertising Festival. [ citation needed ] In 2009 Isherwood was the Creative Chairman for the UN/IAA Climate Change Initiative. www.Hopenhagen.org [7]

Isherwood is currently a founding partner of Dialog Health, [8] and director of Creative Development for The One Club for Creativity. [9] In 2019, he co-founded The ONE School, a free online portfolio program for black creatives with schools based in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and the UK. [10]

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. [11] [12] 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. [13] He is also a member of RMIT’s Acclaimed Alumni. And received the first ever Honorary Doctorate in Communications from RMIT in 2007. [14] He was inducted into the Australian Writers and Art Directors Hall of Fame in August 2009. [15]

Appointments

Bibliography

Palazzo Editions ISBN   0-9553046-0-1 ISBN   978-0-9553046-0-6

Rotovision ISBN   0-8230-6562-6 ISBN   978-0-8230-6562-2

(editor Julius Wiedemann.) Taschen – GmbH ISBN   3-8228-4027-0 ISBN   978-3-8228-4027-6

Taschen – GmbH Not Yet Available

Te Neues Publishing Co. ISBN   0-9538128-0-4 ISBN   978-0-9538128-0-6

(by Michael Newman, foreword by Isherwood.) Published by Wiley ISBN   0-470-82106-X ISBN   978-0-470-82106-0

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  3. ↑ "The Victor Greenhalgh Scholarship". RMIT University. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009.
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  8. ↑ "Dialog Health | Patient + Employee Engagement | Texting Solution HIPAA Compliant".
  9. ↑ "Creative Legend Bob Isherwood Joins The One Club To Lead Global Professional Development". www.oneclub.org.
  10. ↑ "The One Club and WPP Partner To Bring ONE School Initiative for Black Creatives to the UK". www.oneclub.org.
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  13. ↑ "Clio Lifetime Achievement Award for Bob Isherwood : News : Saatchi & Saatchi". Saatchi.com. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  14. ↑ "RMIT Alumni - Home - RMIT Alumni". Alumni.rmit.edu.au. Archived from the original on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
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  17. ↑ CLIO Awards
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