GX Magazine is a specialty publication focusing on retention and recruiting Soldiers in the Army National Guard. In addition to covering modern missions and historic events, GX empowers Soldiers and their families with custom content about fitness, nutrition, relationships, and careers. It is a 108-page, high-end print magazine that is delivered bi-monthly to more than 220,000 mailboxes.

Mallorie is currently the Senior Editorial Designer for GX, which entails collaborating with editors and other designers, coordinating and directing photo shoots, creating all design content and layout of the magazine, and photo editing.

Art Direction by Dustin McNeal

Second Harvest has a network of over 490 Partner Agencies working together to feed hungry people throughout middle Tennessee. Mallorie has done a variety of design work for them over the past three years, including annual reports, truck wraps, billboards, print and web ads, infographics and more.

Middle Tennessee Lumber had developed a new brand of hardwood flooring called Walking Horse Plank, and they wanted feedback straight from their toughest critics—the guys who install it.

Together with a small team and a local print shop, we created the Walking Horse Golden Plank—a Willy Wonka–inspired contest. Packaged inside select bundles of the flooring, installers would discover a Golden Plank as they unwrapped and inspected the product.

Each Golden Plank was printed on cardstock from Gmund’s Savanna line, which was embossed with wood grain at the mill in Germany. We hit the paper with both gold and black foils, then further embossed the black-foiled areas. Uniquely numbered with a gold foil label hand-applied in the circle at the bottom corner, every Golden Plank pointed its winner to a mobile-friendly website where they could take a short survey. In return, they’d receive a reward worth $250. 

The promotion not only allowed MTL to gain valuable, actionable insights into their customer base, but it also got that base talking about the product, ultimately growing brand awareness and loyalty.

kidcentral tn is a one stop shop for families to raise healthy and happy kids. Work with this client has ranged from print mailers to various website updates to a new carousel design for their homepage.

Adobe Creative Jam is an event series where local thought leaders share their processes and projects, while teams of two compete in a tournament that puts their creative skills to the test using Adobe Creative Cloud.

After being given a prompt, the teams have several hours to create, execute and refine a design series related to it.

My partner, Meredith, and I came up with this pioneer-themed campaign/club encouraging kids to get in touch with their adventurous side, and ended up winning the People's Choice Award for the event.

Find out more about the Nashville Jam here: youtu.be/WH45l_DY1gc

I began volunteering with CreativeMornings in 2017 after being a participant for several years. The event occurs once a month, and as a team we tackle everything from event setup to finding sponsors to executing any special design needs that may arise. You can learn more about the Nashville chapter here.

An assortment of editorial work, social posts, infographics and invitations created for various clients.

A few personal, fun pieces from over the last few years. Long live snail mail!