Juan Carlos Pagan

Juan Carlos Pagan is a New York-based designer and typographer. In 2006, he received his BFA in Communication Design from Parson’s The New School for Design, and in 2011, he completed his studies as part of the inaugural class of Type@Cooper, the postgraduate typeface design certification program at Cooper Union. Pagan is currently the design director at Deutsch New York and a partner at the Brooklyn-based design studio Pagan & Sharp. Prior to Deutsch, he served as head of design at DDB New York.

His work has been recognized by the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, Cannes Lions, the One Club, D&AD, the Clios, Print magazine, and Communication Arts. In 2012, he was named a “Creative You Should Know” by Creativity Online and AdAge. In 2013, Pagan was the recipient of the ADC Young Guns 11 award, and he was listed in the top ten of Adweek‘s Talent 100. He has shown at the Mexican Museum of Design in Mexico City, the Art Directors Club in New York City, the FoCi Art Fair in Miami Beach for Art Basel, and the Type Directors Club in New York City, among others.