Shaping
Your Story

The MG Strategy + Design team is led by former journalists. We specialize in immersive experiences that engage across digital, print, and any storytelling platform we can imagine together.

McKinsey & Company

Helping expand excellence in visual storytelling
EFI Foundation

Building a secure, low-carbon energy future.
The Onion

Remaking America’s Finest News Source
RMI

Securing a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future
Current

A catalyst for better, cleaner water
Foley Foundation

Inspiring moral courage, one person at a time.

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Everything you do tells a story — that story lives at the heart of your mission.

Everything you do tells a story – it’s the heart of your mission.

MG Strategy + Design has a lot of deep experience in newsrooms, both in paper and digitally. So, we have been excited to work with them on both getting the new website up and getting the DNC paper designed and templates for our new papers moving forward. And they’re just such a dream team.”
— Danielle Strle, Chief Product Officer, The Onion

Jonathon and Matt offer flexible additional execution capacity and resources that not only meet high standards in a timely fashion, but also provide the right level of creative partnership that you would want and seek from veteran design and visual storytelling experts with a proven track record.”
— Raju Narisetti, Partner & Leader, Global Publishing, McKinsey & Company

Matt Mansfield and his stellar team have been invaluable partners from Day One of the EFI Foundation. Talented, responsive, imaginative and on time, every time. We look forward to many more years of partnership.”
— Ernest J. Moniz, 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy, Founder and CEO. the EFI Foundation

Matt Mansfield, Jonathon Berlin and Kurt Cunningham had groundbreaking ideas in the pilot software they created for how to help communities access more of the federal government’s resources in the clean energy transition. They were a joy to work with.”
— Jeanette Pablo, CEO, Climate Equity Foundation

Working with the MG team as we collaborate on presenting the research in the annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report — something we have done since 2017 — is always a great experience. They are experts at telling stories visually in ways people can immediately understand.”
— Philip Jordan, Vice President, BW Research

Getting to work on a print product in 2024 is utterly thrilling, to be sure. But without access to the level of expertise MG Strategy + Design provided, it would have been equally terrifying. Seeing the first renderings of the newspaper early in development offered me a wealth of reassurance that we were in the right hands.”
— Jordan LaFlure, Executive Editor at The Onion

Climate Advisers has been a longstanding client of MG for many years now. We continue to be impressed by their professionalism, and the excellence of their work across many aspects of design, including reports, web pages, infographics and more. We work with MG across a variety of projects relating to climate and sustainability, and their work is an essential part of being able to communicate important messages clearly and to our target audiences. We look forward to continuing to work with MG.”
— Natasha Ferrari, Senior Director, Communications, Climate Advisers

Meet Provable: Clarity for Complex Ideas

At Provable, our collaboration with M. Harris & Co., we simplify information about scientific breakthroughs, medicine and the environment. And we employ powerful marketing and advertising tactics to communicate to non-experts.

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Great Design Fuels Growth, Drives Impact

Design is more than aesthetics; it’s the strategic driver that transforms your brand’s vision into meaningful experiences, inspiring action and loyalty.

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Mission-Driven Creative Strategy

We work with nonprofits, associations, foundations, government. and media to turn ideas into actions that inspire change.

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The Latest

Bringing Back Print: The Onion Wins International Design Awards

We’re so happy for our client, The Onion, for earning three awards recently at the international Society for News Design’s 46th annual Best of News Design Creative Competition
EFI Foundation at the Forefront of Climate Realism

Our longtime client, the EFI Foundation, continues to drive thoughtful, actionable dialogue around climate and energy policy—most recently through the leadership and insights of CEO Ernest J. Moniz.
Creating the Look and Feel for the World Bank’s Gender Leadership Award

MG worked with the amazing team at the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) on the campaign.
Journalism in the Age of AI — Global Perspectives from Newsrooms and the Public

Researchers from the Center for News, Technology and Innovation, an MG client, conducted two global surveys that asked what it means to do journalism and what the public wants from it.
Design and Infographics for a New Foley Foundation Hostage Report

Supporting the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation with design and graphics for the release this week of the first report in its Bringing Americans Home research series for 2025.