The Society of Publication Designers is proud to present the
Medal Finalists of the world's best creative competition for editorial content.

 

 

The finalists for our prestigious Brand of the Year, Magazine of the Year, Cover of the Year, and Website of the Year awards include:

Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Gothamist, National Geographic, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times For Kids, The New York Times Magazine, The Record, Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly, Volkskrant Magazine, and WIRED

The Print Medal Finalists include:

20/20: A Retrospective of Two Decades in the Middle East, 5280, Achtung, AFAR, Allure, Arab News, Baltimore Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Appétit, Business Today, Condé Nast Traveler Spain, Cosmopolitan, Clash Magazine, The Cut, Earnshaw’s, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Footwear Plus, FREUDE.FOREVER, Garden & Gun, Grow, Harvard Ed., Hodinkee, Inc. Magazine, The Inquirer, JCK, Kindling, The Los Angeles Times, Magneto, MasterClass, MIT Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, MIZZOU Magazine, Mosaic, National Geographic, Nature Conservancy Magazine, Netflix Queue, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times For Kids, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Preemptive Love, Racquet Magazine, Rolling Stone, South China Morning Post, Spirit Magazine, St. Louis Magazine, Story Matters, Texas Monthly, Think:Act, University of Miami Medicine Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair Spain, Virtuoso, The Magazine, Volkskrant Magazine, Washingtonian, WIRED, WIRED Middle East, Women’s Health, and WSJ. Magazine

The Digital Medal Finalists include:

AARP, ABC-ETC, The Atavist, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Pursuits, Bon Appétit, BuzzFeed News, CNN, The Cut, EBONY, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, The Ethel from AARP, Forbes, FORESIGHT Climate & Energy, Fortune, The Girlfriend from AARP, Glamour, Insider, The Intercept, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, The Nation and The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, National Geographic, NBC News, Netflix Queue, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, ProPublica, Rolling Stone, Saveur, South China Morning Post, Texas Monthly, The Verge, VICE News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and WSJ. Magazine


From these Medal Finalists, the Gold Medal and Silver Medal winners, along with the Gold Medals for the Best of Genre categories, will be announced during the 58th Annual SPD Awards Presentation in June.

To see who served on the SPD 58 Jury, click here.

Check out the SPD58 Merit Winners here! Official notifications will be emailed to all Medal Finalists and Merit Winners shortly.

Interested in sponsoring SPD? Purchasing an ad in the 58 Awards Presentation is a great way to congratulate your creative team and celebrate the finalists.. Learn more here.

Download the Medal Finalists Press Release Here!