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, both in-house and freelance. These days I also use AI to build the things that used to need 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 few recent projects where I used Claude.ai to take the work past design. Live sites and tools, in use today.

Custom tools, interactive sites, real backend. The stuff I used to hand off or skip.

Claude.ai handles the engineering side, so projects that used to need a developer (or used to need me banging my head against a wall for a week) now run solo. I built all three below in one day.

Ortega Construction website
01 / 03
Marketing Site
Ortega Construction

Marketing site for a Chicago general contractor. Service pages, filterable project gallery, reviews, and a service area map. Mobile-first, in production.

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

Internal tool that spits out branded PDF quotes in minutes, replacing a paper process. Shipped with the main site.

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

Inventory for letterpress studios. Log moveable type by typeface and point size, paste your copy, see what your case can't cover (highlighted in red).

typesort.dannymaller.com↗
Design Work

Corporate & freelance.

Work across national consumer brands, higher-ed marketing, healthcare, and local businesses. Campaigns, identity, WordPress, packaging, email, motion.

AllCampus
Corporate · Digital / Email
AllCampus

Design across higher-ed partners including GW, USC Marshall, Purdue, and the University of Florida. Lifecycle email systems, coded landing pages, and display creative running across institutional brands at once.
SlowPhoto Child Theme
Freelance · WordPress / Brand
SlowPhoto Child Theme

Custom WordPress site for a local photographer, later refactored into a Divi child theme that now sells across marketplaces.
Formic
Freelance · Brand / Print / Apparel
Formic

Freelance work for Formic, an industrial automation company. A sales sheet on their existing brand system, plus a six-year tour shirt marking the new 50,000 sq ft Bolingbrook HQ.
Pampered Chef
Corporate · Digital / Print
Pampered Chef

Years of work across web, holiday email, print catalogs, and packaging for a national consumer brand. Summer Sale campaign system, Holiday Edition email identity that moved real numbers, the FreezyFun start guide.
The Athletic Training Room
Corporate · WordPress / Brand
The Athletic Training Room

Brand, WordPress site, and on-scene photography for an athletic training startup. Ongoing partnership that's scaled through franchising.
Shrimply Amazing
Corporate · Interactive Catalog
Shrimply Amazing

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

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

WordPress site for a healthcare client, built in Divi with interactive dropdowns and Google Maps, through agency feedback rounds.
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 graphic designer in Chicago, fifteen years into it across in-house and freelance work. Mostly digital these days (websites, WordPress, campaigns, UI), but also print, brand, and motion, for clients ranging from national consumer brands to local shops.

For the past while I've been using Claude.ai to cover the development side of web projects, the stuff that used to mean hiring a dev. It means I can take a project from concept to a working live site on my own, which is what most clients want anyway: one person who owns the whole thing.

Good design solves a problem. That's been the same job whether the answer was a print campaign, a WordPress site, or a custom 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.

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

Available for new work