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:

2wice Arts Foundation, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Grist, The Guardian, National Geographic, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times For Kids, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, and TIME

The Print Medal Finalists include:

AARP Bulletin, AFAR, Asia Society Magazine, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bowdoin, The Cali Years, Deloitte Insights, Earnshaw’s, Ebby Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Field Guide, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Footwear Plus, Garden & Gun, Grow, The Guardian, Hi, Five., Hodinkee, House Beautiful, IEEE Spectrum, INQUE, Kazoo Magazine, LA Times Image Magazine, Liberal Education, Los Angeles Times, maize, Magneto, Martha Stewart Living, MIT Technology Review, 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, Newsweek, NOTEBOOK, OH–SO, PawPrint, People Magazine, Preemptive Love, PopSci Dog Mind, PopSci Moon, Port, Real Simple, The Red Bulletin, Rice Magazine, Rolling Stone, See All This Art Magazine, Shape, St. Louis Magazine, Tec Review, Texas Monthly, Vanity Fair, Variety, Volkskrant Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Who Taught You To Love?, WIRED, Wired Italia, WSJ. Magazine, and Year In Search

The Digital Medal Finalists include:

2wice Arts Foundation, AARP, The Atlantic, The Bitter Southerner, Brené Brown, Columbia Journalism Review, The Cut, Domino Magazine, EBONY Media, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Eight by Eight, Elite Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Field Guide, Grist, InStyle, The Intercept, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, Mother Jones, National Geographic, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Oprah Quarterly, Outside Magazine, Pap Magazine, Paper Magazine, Refinery29, Rest of World, Saturday, TIME, VICE News, Wallpaper, The Washington Post, Women’s Health, and WSJ. Magazine

From these Medal Finalists, the Gold Medal and Silver Medal winners will be announced during the 57th Annual SPD Awards Presentation in June. 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! 

To see who served on the SPD 57 Jury, click here. Special thanks to Sacha Lecca for photography and House Industries and Commercial Type for donating fonts used in SPD 57.

Official notifications will be emailed to all Medal Finalists and Merit Winners shortly.

Interested in sponsoring SPD? Purchasing an ad in the 57 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!