Medal Finalists Announced:
Rare Specimen Samples of PUB 45

The results of a great judging weekend? A fantastic selection of medal finalists, with competition so tight that in a very few instances, there are ties that can't be broken: Gold and Silver Medals from the following list of Medal Finalists, will be announced at the SPD Gala on Friday, May 7th, and in some categories, two Silvers or two Golds. (It's one exceptional specimen after another, people!) Read on for a full list of finalists...

Sixty different publications are among the medal finalists for SPD Gold this year, including Architect, Atlanta, Backpacker, Best Life, Blender, Bon Appétit, The Boston Globe, Complex, Condé Nast Portfolio, Cookie, CUT--Leute Machen Kleider, Earnshaw's, Elephant Magazine, Elle (UK), ESPN the Magazine, Esquire, The FADER, Field & Stream, Footwear Plus, Fortune, Golf Digest, Golf Digest Index, Good Housekeeping, GQ, GreenSource, Hemispheres, IEEE Spectrum, IL - Intelligence in Lifestyle, Interior Design Magazine, Marie Claire, Martha Stewart Living, Maxim, Men's Health, More, Mother Jones, Moviemaker, National Geographic, New York, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nylon, O the Oprah Magazine, Outside, Popular Mechanics, Print, Psychology Today, Real Simple, Rolling Stone, T The New York Times Style Magazine, Tennis, Texas Monthly, TIME, U of T Magazine, Ud & Se, Vanity Fair, W, Washingtonian Bride & Groom , WIRED, WIRED Italy, and Worth.

In addition to the finalists here, over 600 Merit winners were selected by the jury -- and as of this afternoon, notification letters to each winner will officially be in the mail. Congratulations to everyone!

Download the full press release here with all the print medal finalists (online results to come in March), and start planning for an amazing 45th Anniversary Gala in May!


Photo above courtesy of Kenji Aoki.