{"id":638755,"date":"2026-10-07T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638755\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:00:12","slug":"rick-barry-appoints-former-mc-saatchi-cd-andrew-torrisi-as-creative-director-campaign-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638755\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Barry appoints former M+C Saatchi CD Andrew Torrisi as Creative Director \u2013 Campaign Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t    October 7 2026, 12:49 pm | BY Ricki Green | <a href=\"#comments\">1 Comment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/INTDDS0071-Headshots_Frame_011-Recovered.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Barry appoints former M+C Saatchi CD Andrew Torrisi as Creative Director\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t    \tIndependent creative studio Rick Barry has added award-winning creative director Andrew Torrisi to its ranks, following a run of new business wins.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Torrisi joins from M&amp;C Saatchi, having previously spent several years at both DDB Sydney (now Clemenger BBDO) and TBWA Sydney. Along the way, he\u2019s helped create work including McDonald\u2019s \u2018The Original Mouthful\u2019, Volkswagen Amarok\u2019s \u2018Born From Tough Love\u2019, mycar\u2019s \u2018R Plates\u2019 and Tourism New Zealand\u2019s \u2018PLAY NZ\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>His work has been awarded at Cannes, D&amp;AD, One Show, Spikes, AWARD, Adfest and LIA, while Torrisi and creative partner Stephanie Allen were named DDB\u2019s Creative Team of the Year in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Says Alex Derwin, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Rick Barry: \u201cAndrew is exactly the kind of creative leader we want at Rick Barry. He\u2019s got a strategic brain, incredible creative skills and the voice of an angel according to his old bandmates. Most importantly he\u2019s a big hearted guy with incredible experience, who is keen to nurture our young team. He only started a couple of weeks ago and he\u2019s already making a huge difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Says Torrisi: \u201cAlex and Hugh are creating something special here. A place where creativity has permission to let loose and have fun. I\u2019m honoured to be part of their vision moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The appointment follows Rick Barry\u2019s recent Tourism &amp; Events Northern Territory win, which has seen the studio establish a Darwin presence and begin work on a new global brand platform for the Territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CB-MAGAZINE-HEADER-PAST-ISSUES-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Barry appoints former M+C Saatchi CD Andrew Torrisi as Creative Director\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 7 2026, 12:49 pm | BY Ricki Green | 1 Comment Independent creative studio Rick Barry has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-638755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}