Chicago, ILAvailable for work

DannyMaller.

Graphic Designer 15+ years
Digital & Print Corporate & Freelance
Web & WordPress + AI tooling

Fifteen years of graphic design across digital, print, and brand, corporate in-house and freelance. I also use AI to build things that would otherwise require a developer.

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Experience
15+ Years
Specialty
Digital Design
Based in
Chicago, IL
Contact
danny.maller@gmail.com
Recent Work · AI-Assisted

Designed it.
Built it. Launched it.

A selection of recent projects where I used Claude.ai to take work further than design alone. Fully live, client-facing sites and tools built from scratch and in active use today.

Custom tools, interactive sites, real backend logic. Things I used to hand off or skip.

Claude.ai handles the engineering side of web work, so projects that used to need a developer (or used to need me to bang my head against a wall for a week) now run as solo builds. All three below were built in one day.

Ortega Construction website
01 / 03
Marketing Site
Ortega Construction

Full marketing site for a Chicago-area general contractor. Service showcase, filterable project gallery, client reviews, and service area map. Mobile-first, production-deployed for a freelance client.

ortegaconstructionchicago.com↗
Ortega Quote Tool
02 / 03
Business Tool
Ortega Quote Tool

Internal estimating tool that generates professional PDF quotes on the fly, replacing a fully manual paper process. Delivered alongside the main marketing site.

quotes.ortegaconstructionchicago.com↗
TypeSort app
03 / 03
Web App
TypeSort

Inventory management for letterpress studios. Log moveable type by typeface and point size, then paste copy to instantly check case coverage. Characters short are highlighted in red.

typesort.dannymaller.com↗
Design Work

Corporate & freelance.

Multi-channel design across national consumer brands, higher-ed marketing, healthcare, and local businesses. Campaigns, identity systems, WordPress builds, packaging, email, and motion.

AllCampus
Corporate · Digital / Email
AllCampus

Multi-channel design for higher-ed marketing partners including George Washington, USC Marshall, Purdue, and the University of Florida. Lifecycle email systems, coded landing pages, and display creative across multiple institutional brands at once.
Pampered Chef
Corporate · Digital / Print
Pampered Chef

Multi-year corporate design across web campaigns, holiday email, print catalogs, and packaging for a national consumer brand. Includes the Summer Sale campaign system, a Holiday Edition email identity that drove measurable engagement lift, and the FreezyFun start guide.
The Athletic Training Room
Corporate · WordPress / Brand
The Athletic Training Room

Full brand identity, WordPress site, and original photography for an athletic training startup. An ongoing partnership that has scaled with the brand through national franchising.
SlowPhoto Child Theme
Freelance · WordPress / Brand
SlowPhoto Child Theme

Custom WordPress site for a local photographer, refactored into a commercial Divi child theme that now generates passive monthly income across multiple marketplaces.
Nielsen Massey
Corporate · Email Design
Nielsen Massey

Premium redesign of the full transactional email suite for a heritage vanilla and extract brand. Six templates rebuilt for editorial polish and cross-client technical reliability.
Shrimply Amazing
Corporate · Interactive Catalog
Shrimply Amazing

An interactive iPad edition of Hy-Vee's weekly seafood circular, built in InDesign and Adobe DPS. Added sampling-time overlays, embedded recipes, and how-to video to the existing print piece.
Animation
Motion Design
Animation

Two motion graphic campaigns for Veridian Credit Union and Texas Future, storyboarded, illustrated in Illustrator, and animated in After Effects to broadcast standard.
PHC The Project
Corporate · WordPress / Brand
PHC The Project

WordPress site for a healthcare client, built in Divi with interactive dropdowns and Google Maps integration through an agency feedback process.
Wedding Suite
Personal · Print / Identity
Wedding Suite

A personal identity project: custom monogram and animal marks, letterpress invitations on French Paper Co. stock, wax seals, and laser-cut day-of signage.
About

Fifteen years of making things.

I'm a Chicago-based graphic designer with fifteen years of experience across in-house corporate roles and freelance work. My focus is digital: websites, WordPress builds, campaigns, and UI, alongside print, brand identity, and motion for clients ranging from national consumer brands to local businesses.

More recently I've been using Claude.ai to handle the development side of web projects. Things that would otherwise require a developer. It lets me take a project from concept to a working, live site on my own, which has been useful for clients who want one person to own the whole thing.

Good design solves problems. That's been true whether the output is a print campaign, a WordPress site, or a custom web tool.

Digital Design
WordPress, web graphics, UI mockups, social, display advertising
Web & App (AI)
HTML/CSS/JS, Firebase, functional web tools built with Claude.ai
Brand & Identity
Logo systems, brand guidelines, visual language, packaging
Print
Campaigns, collateral, brochures, mailers, event materials
Motion
Animated graphics, intro sequences, social video
Software
Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, Figma, WordPress
Contact

Let's work together.

Available for freelance projects and in-house roles. WordPress sites, digital campaigns, brand identity, print, or anything that needs both a designer and a builder.

Available for new work