About

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Ana María Valentin is a bilingual Puerto Rican graphic designer and creative leader with over 15 years of experience building brand identities, visual systems and high-impact creative for organizations across corporate, nonprofit and educational sectors. A graduate of Parsons The New School of Design in New York and holder of an MBA in Brand Management from the London School of Business and Finance, Ana brings a rare combination of creative craft and strategic business thinking to every project she takes on.

Throughout her career Ana has worked as a senior designer and creative leader for organizations including the National Institute of Building Sciences, where she led a full organizational rebrand that earned a Hermes Creative Award for Best Annual Report Design, JLL Americas, where she designed integrated marketing campaigns for nationwide commercial real estate programs, and the Endocrine Society, where she translated complex medical research into compelling visual communications for global audiences. She is currently a Graphic Designer at Imagine Learning, leading the design and production of curriculum materials for one of the most widely used K-12 literacy programs in the United States.

Alongside her in-house career Ana has collaborated as a freelance designer with a range of brands across the food and beverage, hospitality and retail industries, including Dolcezza Gelato, Jane Jane and Rio Record Club, bringing the same elevated aesthetic and strategic sensibility to every brand she touches. Her work spans brand identity, packaging, merchandise design, motion graphics, UX/UI and editorial design and she actively incorporates AI tools into her creative process to push the work further and faster without ever losing sight of the craft.

Ana is based in Puerto Rico and is available for both full-time opportunities and select freelance collaborations.