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,
Website of the Year, and Video of the Year awards include:

AARP, Earth Alliance, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Garden & Gun, The Guardian, National Geographic, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times For Kids, The New York Times Magazine, ProPublica, Rest of World, SOUL, Texas Monthly, and Variety

The Print Medal Finalists include:

5280, AARP The Magazine, ACLU Magazine, AFAR, The Atlantic, Business Today, byFaith, Cosmopolitan, Covenant Magazine, The Cut, Different Leaf, Earnshaw’s, Entertainment Weekly, Expansion, Fast Company, Food & Drink, Food & Wine, Footwear Plus, FREUDE.FOREVER, Garden & Gun, The Golfer’s Journal, The Guardian, Hard Pack Magazine, Harvard Ed., Hey Barista, Hodinkee, The Hollywood Reporter, Inc., Independent School, The Infamous, INQUE, Los Angeles Times, Magneto Magazine, Maize, MasterClass, MIT Technology Review, MR, 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 York Times Opinion, The New Yorker, Pathways, Real Simple, The Record, Rolling Stone, Serviette, SOUL, Sports Illustrated Germany, St. Louis Magazine, Switchyard, Texas Monthly, TIME, Travel + Leisure, Vanity Fair, Variety, Volkskrant Magazine, The Washington Post, Wednesday: The Bible of Dark Culture, Willamette., Wine & Spirits, WIRED, WIRED Middle East, and WSJ. Magazine

The Digital Medal Finalists include:

AARP, Allure, Andscape, The Atlantic, The Baltimore Banner, Bon Appétit, Boston University Office of Research, Bustle, Club Traveler, Cosmopolitan, The Cut, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, The Examination, Fast Company, Fortune, From Here, It’s Possible, Garden & Gun, Gear Patrol, Glamour, The Highlight by Vox, The Intercept, La Botanica, The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project/VICE News, Mother Jones, National Geographic, Nature Conservancy Magazine, Netflix Queue, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Opinion, The New Yorker, Philip Yeo Initiative, Popular Mechanics, ProPublica, Rest of World, Robots, Rolling Stone, Scary Mommy, SOUL, South China Morning Post, Southern Poverty Law Center, TecScience, Texas Monthly, The Verge, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Variety, 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 59th Annual SPD Awards Presentation in June. More information to come.

To see who served on the SPD 59 Jury, click here.

The SPD59 Merit Winners are forthcoming. Official notifications will be emailed to all Medal Finalists and Merit Winners shortly.

Interested in sponsoring SPD? Purchasing an ad in the 59 Awards Presentation is a great way to support the organization, congratulate your creative team and celebrate the finalists. Learn more here.

Download the Medal Finalists Press Release Here!