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Juan Velasco

Art Director «National Geographic magazine»

Juan Velasco has been the Art Director of National Geographic magazine since 2008. He manages the Graphics and Cartographic departments, as well as freelance illustration. Previously, Juan worked as a graphics artist for El Mundo (Spain) and as the Graphics Art Director for The New York Times. 

 In 2001, he founded his own consulting company, 5W Infographics, which is based in New York City and Madrid. Juan has won over a hundred Society of news Design and Malofiej awards (including the Best of Show Award in 2013), as well as awards from the Society of Publication Design and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist as part of a team of writers and visual journalists of The New York Times.

 As a consultant, Juan does workshops, graphics stylebooks and he has helped restructure graphics departments around the world, including Le Monde (France) and many others. He is an instructor for the "Show, Don't Tell" infographics workshop, part the Malofiej conference in the University of Pamplona (Spain), and a visiting professor of Information Graphics for the universities in Hong Kong and Taiwan.