Meg Coughlin has been an art director and designer in Boston and San Francisco since receiving a BFA in Visual Design from the University of Massachusetts. After a summer study in Japan with the Parsons School of Design, and a background in television design, she joined KQED Public Television in San Francisco as a senior designer. Influenced by California design and living in the Bay Area, Meg Coughlin Design was established in 1994. The studio has evolved into a multidisciplinary practice across all media in print and web.

A partial client list includes: California Historical Society, Cal Alumni, Chronicle Books, Fox Hill Village, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Green by Design, Haas School of Business, Heiney & Craig Design, Jossey Bass Publishing, Leapfrog Schoolhouse, Mahoney Architects, Randy Thueme Design Landscape Architecture, Stanford University,
Taber Coppola Landscape Architects, Telecare, THX, Tuttle Publishing, University of California, Berkeley, UC Hastings College of the Law.