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Award-Winning Designer Able Parris Joins Deutsch’s New York Office as SVP, Group Creative Director

23/08/2017
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Able's agency experience includes working with Big Spaceship as Design Director on a range of clients, from Crayola to Chobani to GoGo squeeze
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 The New York office of Deutsch welcomes Able Parris as SVP, Group Creative Director, overseeing platform creative for ACUVUE and Siemens, as well as leading efforts on Great Machine, Deutsch’s recently launched AI practice. Parris joins from Translation, where he was Head of Design and Group Creative Director, and dug his creative heels into everything from sports to retail, working with companies like Google Play Music, DSW, Brooklyn Nets and Denver Nuggets.
 
Parris is a Deutsch “boomeranger,” having worked in Deutsch’s LA offices several years earlier. Deutsch North America’s Chief Digital Officer, Winston Binch, noted: “We’re excited to have Able rejoin us; his creative aesthetics, sense of style, and ease with all things digital, coupled with a drive to always go above and beyond to deliver excellence for our clients, make him a perfect fit for our team.”
 
Prior to Translation and while at Deutsch LA, Parris brought food ordering to the Web with the launch of TacoBell.com "ta.co." He also led the overhaul of model pages on Volkswagen’s VW.com, and worked on Sprint and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. 
 
“Able is a true creative in every sense of the word. He has big, sticky ideas that know no boundaries,” said Dan Kelleher, CCO of Deutsch’s NY office. “He’s a great person and we’re thrilled he made his way to the East Coast, and back to Deutsch.” 
 
Additional agency experience includes working with Big Spaceship as Design Director on a range of clients, from Crayola to Chobani to GoGo squeeze, in eCommerce, connected experiences and innovative digital campaigns. He also worked at McKinney on clients including Sherwin-Williams, Nationwide and Gold’s Gym.  
 
Outside of design work, Parris’s surrealist collages and typographic illustrations have been published by Complex, Huffington Post and Vice, as well as in Cut & Paste. His work has also been on exhibit at RE:FORM SCHOOL alongside Marc Ecko, Shepard Fairey and Michel Gondry, among others.  Parris runs his own creative studio with his wife, Julia Parris, called “Analog is Heavy.”
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