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Currently heading Impresos Mexico, building brand at UST, teaching at Snap Design Academy, and playing at Objetos Mexico.
MJ Balvanera is a Brand Designer, Riso Publisher, and Art Director based in Los Angeles, CA with a deep-rooted passion for the intersection of design, branding, and publishing. With a master’s degree in graphic design and nearly a decade of experience across branding, web, self-publishing, and marketing, she specializes in creating designs that extend beyond aesthetics to actively shape brands and identity.
Clients
Day Job
Subtropic Studios
Mural
DoorDash
Jinx
Our Place
fatty15
Byte
Jinx
ICA LA
SALIMA Magazine
Feminist Center for Creative Work
Omnivore
Content Object
Kilter
Truecar
TedXPasadena Women
Lectures and Teachings
→Snap Design Academy (2025) Faculty
→USC Roski (2022) Lecturer
→Otis College, Undergradate Graphic Design (2022) Risograph Workshop & Lecturer
→LACMA | LA Print: Edition 11 — Activist Graphics (2022) Co-Host
→AIGA work/less workshop (2021) Co-Host
→CCA | California College of Art and Design Adjunt Professor (2021)
→BIPOC Design History Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Gráfico (2021) Lecturer
→Abierto Mexicano de Diseño (2020), Guest Speaker
→CCA | California College of Art and Design (2020) Design Lecture Series Lecturer
→Serious Business (2020) Guest Designer
→Wendy's Subway (2020) Commual Care for Liberation Co-Lecturer
→Otis College, Graphic Design MFA, Summer Workshop (2019), Design Week Workshop Host
→Otis College, Graphic Design MFA, Mexico City Workshop (2019), Workshop Co-Host