Studio Magic Hour partners with organizations across the food system to bring care, creativity, and clarity to complex design challenges. We offer four primary ways to collaborate, each rooted in reflection, participation, and equity-driven design practice.
We're here to help you design more equitable food futures.
Our Services
We partner with foundations as an embedded design strategist—facilitating grantee learning, designing convenings, synthesizing insights, and helping make sense of what’s emerging across a portfolio.
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We lead custom full-scale design projects—from discovery research and sensemaking to co-creation, concept development, and pilot design—guided by the goals of your organization and community.
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We provide ongoing coaching for individuals or teams implementing design work, supporting reflective practice, clarity, and aligned, equity-driven decision-making.
We design and facilitate one- to three-day workshops that help teams and networks make sense of complexity, generate creative ideas, and co-create meaningful solutions.
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You’re bringing together diverse partners to collectively create an initiative or program—and want alignment, momentum, and actionable solutions to move forward.
A good fit for you if:
1–3 days (in-person)
Co-design workshops
Investment: Starts at $10,000
WHAT IT IS
FORMAT
One- to three-day design intensives that help teams, coalitions, and networks make sense of complex challenges and opportunities and co-create actionable next steps. Each co-design blends systems thinking, creativity, and skilled facilitation to help partners surface key insights and turn them into meaningful solutions.
Where collaboration sparks clarity
Design coaching
A good fit for you if:
You or your team are already doing design or innovation work and want a trusted partner to help integrate equity throughout.
Investment: $3,000 – $5,000 / month
WHAT IT IS
FORMAT
Ongoing, personalized coaching for individuals, teams, or funder collaboratives implementing design work. Together, we clarify goals, strengthen reflective practice, and navigate barriers with care.
Individual or team series | 3- or 6-month packages
Sustained guidance for practitioners designing for equity
You need added design capacity and expertise to lead one or more phases of a design project.
A good fit for you if:
Custom design services
Investment: Custom quote
WHAT IT IS
FORMAT
Custom design projects guided by the goals of your organization and community partners. Engagements can take the form of full-length projects (from start to finish) or project phases (such as design research/learning, co-creation and concept development, or pilot implementation).
Custom-scoped project engagement | Remote + on-site as needed
From vision to implementation
Strategic design partnership for funders
A good fit for you if:
You’re a funder or backbone organization ready to reimagine how you support grantees—not just what you fund—and you want to bring more coherence, creativity, and community voice into the work you support.
Investment: Starts at $50,000 for a 6-month collaboration
WHAT IT IS
FORMAT
Multi-month collaborations with foundations that want to strengthen how design, learning, and equity show up across their grantee work. Studio Magic Hour becomes an embedded creative partner—designing convenings, facilitating grantee learning, conducting listening sessions, and helping you make sense of what’s emerging across your portfolio.
We bring design strategy to your work: translating complex, sometimes messy grantee experiences into clear patterns, opportunities, and design directions that support thoughtful, actionable next steps.
This partnership supports the parts of your work that require collaboration, reflection, insight, and thoughtful process.
6 – 12 months | A flexible, in-depth embedded partnership