Brand of the Year, Magazine of the Year, Website of the Year,
Video of the Year, Print, and Digital
The Society of Publication Designers is excited to announce
the Medal Finalists of the world's best editorial design competition.
The finalists for our prestigious Brand of the Year, Magazine of the Year, Website of the Year, and Video of the Year awards include:
Bon Appétit, Fast Company, GQ, Hallowed Ground, Here Magazine, InStyle, The Lily, National Geographic, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Refinery29, and WIRED Italia
The Print Medal Finalists include:
5280 Magazine, AARP The Magazine, Achtung, Airbnb Magazine, Allure, American In(Justice), The Atlantic, Audubon, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Appétit, byFaith, The California Sunday Magazine, Consumer Reports, Different Leaf, Earnshaw’s, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN The Magazine, EXEL Drexel University Research Magazine, Fast Company, Food & Wine, Footwear Plus, Garden & Gun, Golf Digest, GQ, Here, Howler, In Touch Magazine, InStyle, Larder, Manufactura, Marie Claire, Men’s Health, Middlebury Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Modern Counsel, Mother Jones, National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Netflix Queue, New York Magazine, The New York Times for Kids, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine Labs, The New Yorker, No Man’s Land, O, The Oprah Magazine, Peer, Prefix Photo, Psychology Today, Racquet Magazine, Rolling Stone, Sandwich, SEDAN, Smithsonian, Sojourners, Spirit Magazine, The Sunday Times Style, Tec Review, Texas Monthly, TIME, Travel and Leisure Mexico, Vanity Fair Italia, The Washington Post Magazine, WIRED, WIRED Italia, World Wildlife Magazine, and WSJ. Magazine
The Digital Medal Finalists include:
Audubon, Bloomberg Businessweek, Brennan Center for Justice, BuzzFeed News, The Cut, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, Fast Company, GQ, Hallowed Ground, InStyle, The Intercept, The Lily, MIT Climate, National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, NEO.LIFE, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Opinion, The New Yorker, Refinery29, Rolling Stone, VICE News, Vogue Latin America/Vogue Mexico, The Washington Post, WIRED, and WSJ. Magazine
From these Medal Finalists, the Gold Medal and Silver Medal winners will be announced at the 55th Annual SPD Awards Gala. The Gold Medal for the Members' Choice Award, which is the only award chosen by the members of the Society, and the Gold Medals for our Best of Genre categories will also be presented.
Voting for the Members' Choice Award will be opened soon. Join or renew your membership now to be notified when voting opens! To see who served on the SPD 55 Jury, click here.
Official notifications will be emailed to all Medal Finalists and Merit Winners shortly.
