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Photography Awards: Travel/Food/Still Life Story

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Design Awards: Travel/Food/Still Life Story

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Photography Awards: Feature Fashion/Beauty Single Page or Spread

Nominees after the jump!
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Design Awards: Service Feature, Single Page or Spread

It's fun seeing the way the entries broke out this year with the new categories. In years past with the open categories, we'd see a gorgeous food story going head-to-head with a celebrity profile in the Feature Design category. In Pub 44, service competes with service, which in this case yielded the following gorgeousness in the Service Feature, Single Page or Spread.
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Photography Awards: Service Feature, Story

More Photography Service here, and our first Medal Finalists showing off the power of the story: not only a great opener, but strong commissions throughout the story. A generous look at modern, green home design in Joshua Tree; eggs more artful than anything the Easter Bunny might bring; lakeside vacations that definitely leave you itching to ditch this computer (but don't! -- Ed); and a shudder-inducing reminder: You Walk Wrong. Dive in...
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Photography Awards: Service Feature, Single or Spread

Service. It's one of the backbones of any great magazine, helping the reader to know more, make better decisions, be empowered to improve themselves or their surroundings. Just because magazines have been providing service since the very beginning though doesn't mean that any of these Medal Finalists for Photography in the Service Feature category are ordinary shots, standard or expected solutions. Far from it: the photography here is sharp enough to draw you in, even if you weren't thinking you needed to know about the best in cameras, get it together to start running, stop slacking on your enviro cred, get a grip on what's going on inside your brain at 40, or understand some of the underlying issues in your personal universe. Take a look at the finalists after the jump....

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Design Awards: Educational/Institutional

Rounding out the Medal Finalists from the Educational/Institutional entries are the Design Medal Finalists: not surprisingly, quite a few covering hot issues in the education world! Probably not something most of us see with a lot of frequency, but getting some time in the spotlight after the jump...

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Photography: Educational/Institutional

All magazines have a specific audience, a reader who comes to the publication expecting certain coverage, with a certain voice and look, something they come to identify as part of themselves; but for the magazines from the Educational/Institutional part of our great world, the reader has a very, very specific interest, and the magazine works to telescope information through the tightest of lenses: general interest is not a luxury to be had here.
And yet.
Each of these Medal Finalists for Photography in the Educational/Institutional group bring their alumni, or their socio-political group, or their unique professional members the finest of work, elevating not just their magazine, but their readers as well -- for who doesn't take pride in a job exceedingly well done on their behalf? Kudos for the work after the jump...

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Design Awards: Trade/Corporate

The Medal Finalists from the Design side of the Trade/Corporate entries are just as invigorating a display of creative energy as their Photography partners... ranging from indie-movies to T-Pain to golf legends -- all beautiful, thoughtful design, and as these titles aren't typically newsstand fare, probably new to you, too! Take a peek...

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Photography Awards: Trade/Corporate

Everyone's got a challenging job, right? Not only are you trying to make information and content beautiful and engaging, even if the topic might seem, at first, a little less-than, but you're also pleasing editors, advertisers, publishers, focus groups... the list goes on and on. But even when the topics might seem less-than ideal (kids' clothing? golf clubs? band-aids?), today's Medal Finalists from the Photography section of the Trade/Corporate entries PROVE that brilliance happens every day, with every kind of budget, and every where. Magazines that some might write-off as inherently impossible to make "look good" look stunning here, and these Medal Finalists are raising the bar for everyone...

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