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A seasoned, multi-disciplinary designer with experience in agency, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations, Erin McNally fuses her expertise in product, user research, branding, print, and digital design to create design outputs tailored to business goals and audience needs. Erin currently serves as a Director at APCO and is based in Washington.
Prior to joining APCO, Erin served 2 years on the executive board of directors as operations director and treasurer for the D.C. chapter of AIGA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating programs and initiatives that highlight design and its practitioners. Before that, she worked at Costar Group, a leader in commercial and residential real estate technology, where she spent her time leading the redesign of the lands team’s customer property manager portal focusing on improving both the interface and user experience. Before Costar, she was at Atlantic 57, a digital and editorial agency under The Atlantic publication. She led, designed, and improved existing client and owned digital products and tools through her focus on meeting user needs and goals. Before Atlantic 57, Erin worked for The Pew Charitable Trusts (“Pew”) where she strategically advised, designed, and illustrated a variety of print, digital, and interactive products for Pew’s different topic campaigns, website, and lobbying distributions.
Erin began her career at APCO in the Washington, D.C. office. In this role she partnered with a variety of Fortune 500 clients and advocacy organizations to solve business problems through thoughtful design executions. Her contributions ranged from presentations and proposal designs to visual branding identities and corporate print collateral, to campaign websites and CSR reports, to digital banner ads and infographics.
Erin holds two bachelor of arts degrees from The University of Maryland at College Park – one in studio art, with a concentration in graphic design, and one in art history.