About Us
Founded in 1985, McMillan Group leads each project with a design and communication focus as an alternative to the limitations of projects driven by fabrication. This approach sets us apart, gaining clients' recognition for thoughtful and unusual solutions. We have purposely chosen a strategy of running all of our work from a small creative core team. Each project is then orchestrated with strategic partners under our direction of production services for: fabrication, media, programming and installation. We have been recognized as providing the most professional standards for design and management to clients ranging from the Field Museum, to the Walt Disney Company, to GE.
Creative
Through comprehensive planning and unique visual interpretation, our mission is to solve marketing and curatorial challenges with inspired creativity that delivers unprecedented distinction for our clients and meaningful experiences for their customers and visitors.
Process
With our detail oriented turnkey process, from research, strategy and concept development through project management of the production team, McMillan Group delivers solutions that uniquely express the content, provide quality control and guarantee that the project is on: time, budget and message.
Management
As Executive Producers, we build relationships with both the client and the supplier teams that are based on trust, understanding and diplomacy. This collaboration allows us to be champions of the design vision to ensure
success for each client's project.
Nancy McMillan
Charlie McMillan
Nancy McMillan is partner and Principal at McMillan Group. Besides her primary role as designer, she is also responsible for marketing and business management. Besides winning multiple design awards with her partner Charlie McMillan, Nancy has written numerous articles on design for industry publications. She has a B.A. degree from Principia College with further education at the New York School of Visual Arts, Boston Museum School, Massachusetts School of Art, DeCordova Museum School and Silvermine Guild School of Arts. Prior to becoming partner at McMillan Group, she worked as a graphic designer at Earl Flansburgh and Associates, Architects and then became a freelance editorial illustrator.
Charlie McMillan is a partner and Principal at McMillan Group, which he founded in 1985. As art director and executive producer, his work has won multiple gold and silver design awards from top industry design competitions. Charlie has been a speaker on the subject of design at numerous design conferences. He has a B.A. degree from Principia College with further education at Boston Museum School and School of Visual Arts in New York City. Prior to founding McMillan Group, he worked at two exhibit design and production companies, Design Dynamics in Denver, CO and as Art Director at Admore in Worcester, MA.
- MOA Ft. Lauderdale
- The Michael C. Carlos Museum
- Mt. Holyoke College
- MASS. Heritage Park
- The Israel Museum
- Peabody Museum - Harvard
- UPENN Museum
- Alcon
- Codman
- Datascope
- Elscint
- GE Healthcare
- Glaxo Welcome
- Hewlett-Packard Medical
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kaiser Permanente
- Mallinckrodt
- Marconi Medical Systems
- Mindray
- Picker International
- Serviscope
- Shimadzu
- U.S. Surgical
- Zimmer
- American Isuzu Motors
- BMW of North America
- Delphi
- GE Transportation
- General Motors
- Hyundai
- Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.
- ABC
- Grass Valley Group
- MSNBC
- NBC
- NEC
- Discovery Group
- The Walt Disney Company
- Konami
- Mattel
- Rosco Laboratories
- Maryland National Bank
- Deloitte
- Coca-Cola Foods
- Coffee Council
- General Foods
- Hershey
- McLane Co.
- Pepsi
- Purina
- 3M
- Caradco
- Electronic Theatre Controls
- General Electric
- ICI Americas
- Johnson Controls
- MagneTek
- Moss
- Parker Hannifin
- Philips
- Square D
- Toto U.S.A.
- Advantest Corporation
- ATI Technologies
- AT&T
- Cisco Systems
- Citrix
- David Sarnoff Research Center
- FactSet
- Flight Data Center
- IBM
- Indus International
- Minitab
- Microcom
- Plant Equipment
- Racal Datacom
- Ricoh
- NASA
- The Jet Propulsion Laboratories
- Stennis Space Center
- Aramco
- GE Energy
- Conoco
- Christian Science
Publishing Society
- Delmar Publishers
- Exhibitor Publications
- Hanley Wood
- Time Warner
- UMI
- University Products
- Ziff Davis
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