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Editorial Design Director

Robert Lesser

Boston, MA
cfo.com
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    Awarded more than 50 national design awards



    LEADERSHIP SKILLS

    • Brand building

    • Staff development

    • Vendor management

    • Budget oversight

    • Project management



    DESIGN SKILLS

    • Twenty-plus years of portrait assignments of Fortune 500 executives

    • High–impact information graphics

    • Created a design workflow to support daily content creation for CFO.com for the CMS system



    AWARDS

    • 19 Gold Awards, including: Magazine of the Year, Best Covers Photography, Best Covers Illustration, and Best Overall Design

    • Featured cover design on Folio.com’s “Face Up”

    • Judge for several different design award programs

    • Guest lecturer at Emerson College

  • Awards

    Folio’s Ozzie Awards

    2012

    Silver | Best Use of Photography | Going for the Other Green



    2010

    Gold | Best Use of Illustration | Sea Change

    Gold | Best Use of Photography | Imperfect Futures

    Bronze | Best Use of Illustration | An Action Plan for IT



    2008

    Silver | Overall Design | October 2007 issue

    Silver | Best Use of Illustration | Losing their Grip



    2007

    Gold | Best use of Photography | Innocents Abroad

    Silver | Best use of Photography | Virtue reward

    Bronze | Best use of Illustration | Pay Dirt

    Bronze | Best TOC | Water For Profit

    Bronze | Best Cover | The Buyout Binge

    Bronze | Best Use of Digital Imagery | Measuring Up



    2006

    Gold | Best use of Illustration | China’s Growing Appetite

    Silver | Best Overall Design | August 2005

    Silver | Best Use of Digital Imagery | Can You Spot the Finance Expert?

    Silver | Best use of Photography | Innocents Abroad

    Bronze | Best Cover | Are you ready for Retirement?



    2005

    Silver | Best Cover | Work/Life

    Silver | Best use of Photography | Secrets of the M&A Masters

    Bronze | Best Cover | Kremed!



    2004

    Gold | Best use of Photography | Adelphia Comes Clean



    SPD

    2008 Spot Illustration

    2007 Merit | Use of Illustration | Simplicity is Golden

    2006 Spot Illustration Series

    2006 Merit | Redesign | Entire Issue October 2005

    2005 Merit | Photo-Illustration | Great Expectations

    1999 Merit | Cover | Hear No, See No, Speak No



    Communication Arts

    Illustration Annual 2009 | Cover | The Year Ahead

    Illustration Annual 2007 | Pay Dirt



    SABEW Best In Business

    Society of American Business Editors and Writers

    Excellence



    ASBPE

    American Society of Business Publication Editors

    2012

    Gold | Spread Illustration | The Big Fail

    Silver | New or Relaunched Web Site | cfo.com



    2011

    Gold | Cover Illustration | Brighter Days

    Silver | Spread Illustration | An Action Plan for IT

    Bronze | Spread Illustration | The Shape of Things to Come

    Bronze | Spread Photography | 25 Years of Finance



    2010

    Gold | Spread Illustration | The Tax Man Cometh

    Bronze | Spread Illustration | Dirty Secrets | September 2009



    2008

    Gold | Cover Illustration | Who’s Next?

    Gold | Cover Photography | The Buyout Binge

    Gold | Spread Illustration | Hedge Fund Bullies

    Gold | Spread Photography | The Buyout Binge

    Silver | Spread Illustration | Cleaning Up Carbon

    Silver | Spread Photography | Support Our Ex-Troops

    Bronze | Overall Use of Photography | October 2007

    Bronze | Spread Computer Generated | Measuring Up



    2007

    Gold | Spread Photography | Virtue Rewarded

    Gold | Overall Use of Photography | November 2006

    Bronze | Spread Illustration | Simplicity Is Golden



    2006

    Gold | Spread Illustration | Picture This

    Silver | Spread Illustration | Nonprofits By The Numbers

    Bronze | Spread Photography | Are you ready for Retirement?

    Bronze | BEST COVER | Are you ready for Retirement?



    2004

    Silver | Spread Photography | Adelphia Comes Clean



    2003

    Gold | Magazine of the Year

    Gold | New Publication Design | CFOit

    Gold | Spread Illustration | Yen Masters



    2001

    Gold | Cover Photography | The New Centurions

    Gold | Cover illustration | You’re Fired

    Silver | Spread Illustration | Grim Tales

  • Affiliations

    SPD, Communication Arts, ASBPE

  • Skills
    • Art Direction
    • Branding & Corporate Identity
    • Creative Direction
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