Juan Manuel Prieto is a Colombian Graphic Designer who has worked in advertising for more than 10 years as Art Director and currently works as Creative Director.

He began his career at Leo Burnett in 2011 and later moved on to Young & Rubicam with whom he achieved his first advertising awards, including Gold at Cannes Lions, the first Gold Lion in the Direct category in the country. Winning at festivals such as New York Festival, D&AD, London, Clio, Ojo de Ibero América among others.

After that successful period of his career, he moved on to Mullenlowe SSP3 where he was Senior Art Director for a year and was promoted to Creative Director, the same year in which he won several awards such as Gold Lion in the Young Lions Design category and the Grand Prix at El Dorado - Best of Show, among other awards at festivals such as Clio, One Show, D&AD, FIAP, Art Directors Club and Effie Colombia.

Another of his growth experiences has been after his time at Sancho BBDO directing the Pepsico Foods brands, reaching several markets in both South and Central America, also winning in Effie with one of the most beloved brands in the country and consolidating his work in creativity and digital actions
for the group.

His work has been featured on advertising and design portals, even one of his campaigns went viral on the most important art direction websites in the world. So far he has won more than 50 awards in his advertising career with his creative teams, and he has the opportunity of being a jury on different festivals.

Since October 2020, he works as Creative Direction at MCCANN Worldgroup, of large Colombian brands where they hope to achieve great successes such as those already achieved in their career.

If you want to say hi: juanma.prietom@gmail.com