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 proud to present
the Medal Finalists of the world's best editorial creative 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:
The Atlantic, Fast Company, Garden & Gun, GQ Magazine, Here Magazine, National Geographic, Netflix Queue, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times For Kids, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Pop-Up Magazine, and Texas Monthly
The Print Medal Finalists include:
Allure, Asia Society Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Pursuits, Bon Appétit, byFaith, BYU Magazine, The California Sunday Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler Spain, Earnshaw’s, Easyriders, Elle Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Food & Wine, Forbes Media, Fortune, Footwear Plus, Garden & Gun, Grow, GQ Magazine, GQ Style, Harvard Ed., Here Magazine, House Beautiful, In Touch Magazine, Le Devoir, Los Angeles Times, maize, Martha Stewart Living, MIT Technology Review, National Geographic, Nature Conservancy Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times For Kids, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine Labs, The New Yorker, No Place Like Home, OH—SO, Onward Magazine, Outside Magazine, PLOT, Preemptive Love, Psychology Today, RaceWknd, RETHINK Everything, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, SMU Magazine, Spirit Magazine, St. Louis Magazine, Tec Review, Texas Monthly, University of Toronto Magazine, USC Trojan Family Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair Spain, Variety Magazine, Visual Arts Journal, Vogue Portugal, Volkskrant Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, WIRED, WIRED Italia, Women’s Health, and WSJ. Magazine
The Digital Medal Finalists include:
Allure, Arab News, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Green, Bloomberg Pursuits, The California Sunday Magazine, Curbed, The Cut, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, Fast Company, Glamour, GQ Magazine, The Guardian, The Guardian US, The Highlight by Vox, HuffPost, InStyle, Men’s Health, Mother Jones, National Geographic, Netflix Queue, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Pop-Up Magazine, A Real Nice Lady, Refinery29, Rolling Stone, Tablet, Texas Monthly, Vanity Fair, VICE News Tonight, VICE TV, The Washington Post Magazine, and WSJ. Magazine
From these Medal Finalists, the Gold Medal and Silver Medal winners will be announced during the virtual 56th Annual SPD Awards Presentation in late May/early . 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 announced..
Voting for the Members' Choice Award will be opened soon. Join or renew your membership now to be notified when voting opens!
Special thanks to this year’s SPD 56 Jury, our Jury Captains: Lan Yin Bachelis, Eve Binder, Lauren Brown, Natalie Gialluca, Agnethe Glatved, David Matt, Robert Newman, Emem Offong, Mike Schnaidt, and Corliss Elizabeth Williams; Judging Manager, Nancy Stamatopoulos, and our Volunteers: Tova Diamond, Derek Eng, Juila Knetzer, Tom Messina, Mike Miville, Alice Morgan, Imani Nuñez, Brandon Penny, and Anna Vanchieri.
To see who served on the SPD 56 Jury, click here. To learn more about the SPD Board of Directors, click here.
Official notifications will be emailed to all Medal Finalists and Merit Winners shortly.
