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Robert Festino Creative Director. Robert Festino is an outstanding talent in publication design. http://www.societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Richard-Gangel/Past-Honorees/2013--Robert-Festino.aspx. http://www.spd.org/2013/05/inside-the-mens-health-redesig.php. http://www.ai-ap.com/ap/.

Robert Festino is an American art director and graphic designer. Born in Hoboken NJ, he studied architecture, business and mathematics before realizing his true calling. This lead him to attending design school in New York and eventually studying in Zurich Switzerland. While in school he worked as a graphic designer at studios, as well as at The New York Times. He landed his first editorial designer position at the US edition of Vogue magazine. At that time Festino was fortunate enough to glean first hand knowledge of photography from such greats as Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Michel Comte and Annie Leibovitz. After a stint at the design studio of Richard Poulin (formerly de Harak and Poulin Associates), he found himself flourishing back in the editorial environment of Entertainment Weekly. He then took on his first leadership role at Runner's World, which at the time was a little known magazine with a small readership, where, through keen art direction and appropriately clean design, he garnered national attention and helped create a cultural running boom. After holding art director positions at ESPN, Bon Appetit and Fortune, he became Creative Director of Men's Health magazine, the largest circulating men's title around the world with an estimated readership of 1.8 million.

Robert regularly contributes to the design community by lecturing, teaching and donating his time for special non-for-profit projects. He recently completed the design and art direction of American Photography 29, the annual of photography published by AI-AP. Festino is a member of the Art Director's Club, Society of Publication Designers and the Museum of Modern Art. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2013 Robert received the Richard Gangel Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in art direction.