Australian Bob Isherwood, who was the first worldwide creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi, has been inducted in New York into The One Club for Creativity’s Creative Hall of Fame for 2024.
The Creative Hall of Fame started with the induction of Leo Burnett in 1961.
Isherwood’s career includes 22 years at Saatchi & Saatchi, where he served 11 years as the ad industry’s first worldwide creative director and as chair of its creative board.
The network was consistently ranked one of the most creative in the world, winning more than 8,000 major awards for clients such as P&G and Toyota, for whom Isherwood served as creative director for the global launch of Toyota Prius.
He worked for six years as a creative group head for Young & Rubicam London and 10 years with Collet Dickenson Pearce & Partners before moving back to Australia in 1982 to become a founding partner of Campaign Palace Sydney.
Isherwood served as an adjunct professor of advertising at Vanderbilt University, co-founded the ONE School free portfolio program for Black creatives, and as an advisor, Creative Development, at The One Club, th international nonprofit organisation supporting the global creative community.
Last year he sailed a yacht across the Atlantic and was at last report in his 27-foot boat sailing around the world.
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