SPD 52 Video of the Year Medal Finalists

On May 5 at the SPD 52 Awards Gala we'll be announcing the winner of this year's Video of the Year. Over the next two weeks we'll be running previews of other medal finalists, building up to the big celebration. Be sure to check in every day to see the best magazine design work of the past year, and be sure to follow @SPDTweets on Twitter with #SPD52.

The medal finalists for Video of the Year are: FiveThirtyEight, GQ, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and Vogue.

FiveThirtyEight: Madam President

• Creative Director: Katrina Elazegui

• Art Director: Kate LaRue 

• Designer, Animator: Tom McCarten

• Writer, Producer: Christine Laskowski 

• Data Journalist: Ella Koeze 

• Music and Sound Design: Red Horse Studio

GQ: Inside the Real-Life Database of America's Firearms

• Director of Photography: Krista Prestek

• Photo Editor: Michael Allin

• Director: Steven  Brahms

National Geographic: Follow a Transgender Teen's Emotional Journey to Womanhood

• Vice President, Digital Video: James Williams 

• Director News & Documentary Digital Video: Jeff Hertrick 

• Senior Photo Editor: Todd James 

• Video Editor, Producer: Gabrielle Ewing 

• Video Producer: Kathryn Carlson 

• Videographer, Photographer: Lynn Johnson

• Senior Video Producer: Edythe McNamee 

The New Yorker: Watch Them Whip: A Decade of Viral Dance Moves

• Creative Director: Nicholas Blechman 

• Director of Photography: Yoram Savion

• Executive Producer(s): Joanna Milter, Catherine Spangler 

• Producer: Sky Dylan-Robbins 

Vogue: 11 Supermodels Break the Rules in Freedom! The Best of the New York Collections, Designer Takes 'Panda' to Wall Street with Model Andreea Diaconu, and The 19 Best Collections From Paris Fashion Week, on the Coolest Dancers in the City

• Vogue.com Creative Director: Sally Singer

• Executive Visual Director: Andrew Gold 

• Director of Video: Allison Brown 

• Director(s): Lil Internet, Gordon Von Steiner, Charlotte Whales