Hello!

I’m Danielle Mijo-Burch – an illustrator and graphic designer from Tacoma, WA, now based in lower mainland BC, Canada. I do art, design, and communications work for all types of clients, rooted in a deep love of nerdom, community care, and justice.

I got my start in 2012 as a cartoonist and layout/page designer for The Tacoma Ledger, the independent newspaper of the University of Washington-Tacoma. There I eventually served as Layout Manager and Managing Editor, mentored a small-but-mighty team of artists and designers, and guided the production of over 60 weekly print issues. At the same time, I finished a B.A. in Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies, honing a critical equity/justice lens that underpins all of my creative work and how I try to show up for others.

Since 2016, I have done multilingual design work for non-profits in the U.S. and Canada that serve immigrants and refugees, youth and elders, 2SLGBTQ+ folks, and survivors of domestic violence. I’ve helped people improve their skills with Adobe InDesign, taught workshops on basic design principles, and given talks on accessibility, antiracism, and white co-conspiratorship for creative professionals. From 2019-2021, I worked at the University of the Fraser Valley to help increase the visibility of student and faculty research, before going freelance to pursue art full-time.

As a fat, queer, neurodivergent artist, I’m proud to use my creative superpowers to take on projects with purpose. Projects that fight for better tangible realities for marginalized communities, or just bring happiness to people who enjoy my work. (I draw lots of cute and silly things.)

You can find me bouncing back and forth between Abbotsford and Tacoma, sinking hours into Animal Crossing: New Horizons, listening to comedy and D&D podcasts, or sketching concept art for a picture book called Momsters.

My last name sounds like my-joe (as in, “that’s my cup of joe!”) and birch, like the tree.

Let’s have coffee over Zoom!