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. Organizations from around the world are represented in both the awards and the makeup of the judging panel.
The Onion had been out of the print newspaper world until last year, when MG helped the team bring it back to life in August. We assisted with everything from a redesign of the paper, working with a printer, and planning how it should be distributed. Before 2024, the last issue of The Onion happened at the end of 2013 (the main headline: ‘Onion’ Print Revenues Up 5,000%).
Head to The Onion website, which MG also designed, to become a member and receive the paper. It’s a joy to find the print edition monthly in the mail.
Thanks to the entire team at The Onion for trusting us with its much-covered return to print. The Onion folks work hard to make something amazing. The creative team, led by Jimmy Hasse, and its editorial team, led by Jordan LaFlure and Samantha Hungerford, are in the MG Slack channel each week planning the paper and working on every little thing that makes The Onion special.
And thanks to our team members who work on the print edition: Ben Cunningham, who designs the paper every month, Jonathon Berlin, who helped identify a printing press and was there when the first paper in more than a decade rolled off it, and Jane Hirt from our partner agency, M. Harris & Co., who provided tons of print insight — from her days leading RedEye — about how to distribute the paper in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention.
