Samuel Velasco

Creative Director / Partner

New York City•646.596.9072•svelasco@5wgraphics.com

In 1989 Samuel was one of the original founders of the daily newspaper El Mundo (Madrid), whose art department quickly became the center of a “boom” of infographics in Europe. From 1990 to 1996 El Mundo was recognized with hundreds of awards by the Society for News Design. Samuel alone won more than thirty.

In 1996, Samuel moved to the U.S. and became an Art Director at Fortune magazine, where he was responsible for the design of features and department stories, while at the same time being heavily involved with the infographics department. During this time, Samuel also worked as a freelance infographic artist. In 2006 Samuel left Fortune to devote his talents to 5W Infographics on a full-time basis.

Pedro Velasco

Creative Director / 5W Spain Partner

Madrid / Spain•+34.665.942.272•pvelasco@5wgraphics.com

Pedro Velasco is an infographics artist and illustrator. He was one of the founding members of 5W Infographics Spain in 2002. His finely crafted realistic illustrations and graphics for 5W have appeared in many of the leading publications in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.

Pedro’s skill and command of the infographics language landed him the assignment to create the Infographics Stylebook of ABC (one of the leading newspapers in Spain). The dozens of regional newspapers owned by ABC’s parent company, Vocento, also follow his stylebook’s guidelines. He has received ten Society for News Design awards for his work.

Pedro was on the graphic staff of ABC from 1998 to 2009. Since then he works at 5W Infographics on a full-time basis.

Martín Velasco

Director of Web Development / 5W Spain Partner

Madrid / Spain•+34.655.908.180•mvelasco@5wgraphics.com

Martín was one of the founders, in 2002, of the Spanish branch of 5W. From our Madrid office, he coordinated the work for numerous european clients, including some of the most important publications in Spain, France and the UK, along with several corporate clients. Prior to that, Martín was a member of the infographics department of newspaper ABC and freelanced for several publications.

In addition to his work in infographics, Martín is an accomplished web developer, and he coordinates and develops all web-based projects at 5W, including interactive graphics. Previous to that, he did front-end website projects for companies like Neoris (developing websites for goverment-based agencies) and Bookassist, developing state-of-the-art CMS-based websites for European clients.

Linda Eckstein

Information Design Director / Principal

New York City•212.721.0821•leckstein@5wgraphics.com

Linda Eckstein is an information design expert and a consultant. For over twenty years, Linda was Fortune magazine’s Director of Graphics, distilling complex financial and economic data into accessible graphic representations. Under her direction, Fortune graphics won numerous awards, including several from the Society for News Design, the Society of Publication Design, and the Art Director’s Club.

Linda is also known for her in-depth research of Fortune’s rich history of information design, a topic on which she has spoken widely and written about in Print magazine. Currently she is working on a book on the subject.

As an infographics consultant, Linda’s clients have included Citigroup, The New York Times, Allen, Textron, and McKinsey.

Anna Christian

Design Director

New York City•212.531.4730•achristian@5wgraphics.com

Anna Christian is a multi-disciplined graphic designer. She has created numerous award-winning logo, magazine, and package designs, and continues to integrate a variety of mediums including web and iPad design. Anna organizes and analyzes information to help clients achieve their vision and relay information concisely.

Anna began her career in 1991 at Workman Publishing before working at the award-winning Emerson and Wajdowicz Studios, which gave her the varied background that has proved influential throughout her career. In 1999 she became an Art Director at Fortune magazine. Anna ventured back to her multi-disciplined work full-time in 2002, and in 2011 joined 5W Infographics as a Design Director.

Guilbert Gates

Information Designer

New York City•212.243.7853•ggates@5wgraphics.com

Guilbert Gates has over twenty years of experience producing technical illustrations, maps, and information graphics. For the past several years, he has been working primarily for The New York Times, researching, writing, and producing graphics for their Sunday Business section. In addition, he frequently works for Newsweek and Fortune magazines.

Guilbert’s work has appeared in Scientific American, Esquire, Men’s Journal, Popular Science, and others. He has also worked for several major science textbooks. Guilbert has won awards from Graphis, the Society of Publication Designers, and the Society for News Design, and has appeared in Print magazine, the Illustrator Wow! book series, and The Best in Diagrammatic Graphics by Nigel Holmes.

Gorka Sampedro

Creative Director / 5W Spain

Madrid / Spain•+34.682.467.707•gsampedro@5wgraphics.com

Gorka has worked as Graphics Editor and illustrator at The New York Times. Also as freelancer for Time magazine, Fortune magazine, The International New York Times, The Associated Press and Popular Science, among others. He was the Graphics and Illustration Director at El Economista Newspaper in Madrid, which was awarded as 'World´s Best Designed Newspaper' by the Society for News Design (SND). He was awarded also by the SND with more than 60 recognitions for his work at the Art Departments of El Mundo newspaper, El Economista and The New york Times. As cartoonist he won the Spain First Price in Graphic Humor. He loves american movie classics and jazz music.