Juan Velasco

Current

• Art Director at National Geographic magazine
• Owner and Creative Director at 5W Infographics

Past

• Graphics Art Director at The New York Times
• Graphics Reporter at El Mundo

Education

• Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Recommended

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Connections

160 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Website

Juan Velasco’s Experience

• Art Director

  National Geographic magazine

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

• Owner and Creative Director

  5W Infographics

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  December 2001 — Present (8 years 1 month)

  5W INFOGRAPHIC, based in New York, Washington DC, and Madrid (Spain), provides information graphics, as well as infographics training and consulting for newspapers and magazines. We also do web design, graphic design, and animation. Clients include The New York Times, Scientific American, Le Monde (France), Fortune magazine, Reader's Digest, AARP, and others.
  As a consultant, I have done seminars or helped restructure graphics departments around the world —most recently for Le Monde (France) and Últimas Noticias, El Mundo and Líder (Venezuela). I am also an instructor for the "Show Don't Tell" infographics workshop at the Malofiej convention in the University of Pamplona (Spain), since 2000.

• Graphics Art Director

  The New York Times

  (Public Company; Publishing industry)

  May 1996 — December 2001 (5 years 8 months)

• Graphics Reporter

  El Mundo

  (Newspapers industry)

  1991 — 1996 (5 years )

Juan Velasco’s Education

• Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  B. A. , Journalism

Additional Information

Juan Velasco’s Websites:

• My Website

Juan Velasco’s Groups:

SND (Society of News Design)

Juan Velasco’s Honors:

More than 50 Awards from Society of News Design (SND), Society of Publication Design (SPD), Malofiej and American Institute of Graphics Arts (AIGA)

Juan Velasco’s Contact Settings

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