Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them.
Join us as Person Place Thing host Randy Cohen interviews award-winning Juan Carlos Pagan in a live recording of the popular public radio series from the Type Directors Club.
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers
Juan Carlos Pagan is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and typographer from New York. Juan has created work for clients including NPR, Pinterest, Cîroc, Under Amour, Nike, Google, Apple, Disney, New York Lottery, Jump Bikes, and Youtube. He has also designed cover art for publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stones Magazine, and Variety Magazine. Juan has been recognized for his work by The Type Directors Club, The Art Directors Club, The One Show, Communication Arts, Graphis, Cannes Lions, Clios, D&AD, AICP, 4A’s, AdColor, and Print Magazine amongst others.
In 2013 Juan received The Art Directors Club Young Gun Award, which recognizes vanguard creatives under the age of 30. That same year he was nominated for Print Magazines New Visual Artist 20 Under 30, and was named at the top of Adweek‘s Talent 100. In 2018 Juan received the Type Directors Club Ascenders Award, which recognizes designers who are 35 years of age and under for their remarkable achievement in design and typography. In 2017 Juan co-founded Sunday Afternoon, a hybrid design studio & artist management agency.
Juan holds BFA from Parsons School of Design, and completed his postgraduate studies in typeface design at The Cooper Union.
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards.
His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.