Congratulations to the Medal Finalists!
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Congratulations to the Medal Finalists! 〰️
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:
The Atlantic, The Cut, Fast Company, Garden & Gun, GQ, The Guardian, Long Lead, National Geographic, NBC News, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times For Kids, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, See All This Art Magazine, T; The New York Times Style Magazine, Texas Monthly, and Volkskrant
The Print Medal Finalists include:
5280, AARP The Magazine, AFAR, Allure, The Bitter Southerner, Bon Appétit, Cosmopolitan, The Cut, DONE The Magazine, Earnshaw’s, The Economist, Elastic Magazine, The Envelope, Fast Company, Food & Wine, Footwear Plus, Fortune, Frontier Texas, Garden & Gun, Georgetown Arts & Sciences, GQ, The Guardian, Image, In Trust, Inc. Magazine, Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine, Lore, Los Angeles Times, Maroon Magazine, MBU Magazine, Medicine@Brown, Milwaukee Magazine, Mother Jones, MR, National Geographic, Nature Conservancy, 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, NOTEBOOK, Oregon Stater Magazine, Outside, Playboy, Poetry Magazine, Real Simple, Rolling Stone, Saveur, Science News, Scribe Quarterly, See All This Art Magazine, Serviette, Sewanee Magazine, Sports Illustrated Mexico, St. Louis Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Summit Journal, SVA Style, Team Rubicon, Texas Law Magazine, Texas Monthly, Think:Act, Time, University of Toronto, University of Utah Magazine, Vanity Fair, Variety, Visual Arts Journal, Volkskrant, The Washington Post, Western Alumni Magazine, Why We Travel, Willamette., WIRED, WSJ. Magazine, and Yankee
The Digital Medal Finalists include:
Al Majalla, Allure, Andscape, Apartamento Magazine, The Atlantic, Audubon, Bon Appétit, The Cut, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, Fast Company, Foreign Policy, Garden & Gun, The Guardian, Lonely Planet, Long Lead, MIT Technology Post, Mother Jones, National Geographic, NBC News, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Opinion, The New Yorker, Rebel Magazine, Rolling Stone, Southern Poverty Law Center, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Texas Monthly, The Theater Offensive, Tudum, Variety, Waiting Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, WIRED, and WSJ. Magazine
From these Medal Finalists, the Gold Medal and Silver Medal Winners will be announced virtually during the 61st Annual SPD Awards Presentation on June 11, 2026, with a following in-person cocktail reception in New York City that same evening to celebrate the winners and present SPD’s Highest Honors: Cover of the Year, Website of the Year, Video of the Year, Magazine of the Year, and Brand of the Year. You can buy tickets here!
To see who served on the SPD 61 Jury, click here.
The SPD 61 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 61 Awards Presentation is a great way to support the organization, congratulate your creative team and celebrate the finalists.
Learn more here!
