Juan Velasco co-founded 5W Infographics in January 2002. He was the Art Director of National Geographic magazine between 2008 and 2014. Previously, he was the Graphics Art Director of The New York Times from 1999 to 2002. Juan has won over fifty Society for News Design awards, ten Malofiej awards, and two Society of Publication Design awards for his infographics work. He was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2001 as part of a team of writers and visual journalists for The New York Times. As a consultant, Juan has helped to restructure graphics departments around the world, including Le Monde in Paris, and Puls Biznesu in Warsaw. He is also an instructor for the show, Don’t Tell infographics workshop at the Malofiej convention in Pamplona (Spain)