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Co-chairs for PUB 48 Announced

SPD is delighted to announce the co-chairs for PUB 48, the world's most prestigious publication design competition. Taking the reins this year will be Good Housekeeping Creative Director Courtney Murphy and Garden & Gun Art Director Marshall McKinney.

We're in safe hands!

Murphy has been at the helm of Hearst's 127 year old Good Housekeeping since 2006 and on her watch the brand has undergone some pretty dramatic changes including a top to bottom redesign due for release at the end of year. Her career has spanned the globe with stints in Budapest, Virginia, London and Washington DC (where she was the design director of AARP magazine from 2002-06.)

Rising star McKinney took over at the Charleston SC based Garden & Gun in 2008 after a award winning year and a half as Art Director of Outside's GO magazine. On his watch Garden & Gun has gone from ambitious start-up to an awards sensation snagging the 2011 General Excellence prize at the National Magazine Awards as well as a haul of others for photo and design.

You'll be hearing a lot from our co-chairs soon enough but for now, get your staple removers and tape at the ready. The call for entries will be in your inboxes soon!

GQ Is the Champ at ASME

Awards 05.04.12 posted by The Editors

The winners of the 2012 National Magazine Awards were announced last night at the annual awards presentation at the New York Marriott Marquis. GQ won the Ellie in the design category. TIME was named Magazine of the Year. New York won three awards, and The New Yorker won two. Sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the National Magazine Awards are the preeminent awards for magazine journalism.

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2012 ASME Finalists Announced

Awards 04.03.12 posted by The Editors

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today announced the finalists for the 2012 National Magazine Awards. Known as the Ellies--for the Alexander Calder stabile "Elephant" given to each award winner--the National Magazine Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 3, at the New York Marriott Marquis.

The finalists in the Design category are: Bloomberg Businessweek, GQ, Interview, New York, and Wired.

In the category of Feature Photography, the following were named as finalists: National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Vogue, and W.

ASME Names Digital 'Ellie' Finalists

Awards 02.28.12 posted by The Editors

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) released the nominations for the 2012 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. Leading the nom pack are four titles with three nods each: The Atlantic, Golf Digest, National Geographic, and New York. Each of these publications, along with EW.com, will also be competing for the General Excellence, Digital Media award.

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2011 National Magazine Award Nominations Announced...

Awards 04.05.11 posted by The Editors

ASME (The American Society of Magazines Editors) announced the finalists for their Print Award categories this morning (Digital awards were given last month, see here; finalists for their Magazine of the Year Award will be announced next week), and of course we have to throw the spotlight on the Design and Photo nominees here... … MORE

ADC Awards The NYT Magazine Design Team of the Year

Awards 05.20.10 posted by The Editors

Big congratulations to the team at The New York Times Magazine for being awarded "Design Team of the Year" at last night's Art Directors Club annual Gala. Check out the full list of ADC winners here (pdf link), and some of the great behind-the-scenes work the magazine has shared with us in these highlights from the site over the past few years:

Behind The New York Times Magazine Redesign with DD Arem Duplessis
Celebrating "On Language" Pt. 1
Celebrating "On Language" Pt. 2
Speakeasy VIDEO: "Intuition is Underrated"

Go team!

National Magazine Awards winners

Awards 04.26.10 posted by Robert Newman

The annual National Magazine Awards were presented on April 22 at Alice Tully Hall in NYC. Here's a list of the magazines and people who won the visual categories:

* Best Design: Wired (for the third year in a row!). Creative director: Scott Dadich, design director: Wyatt Mitchell.

* Best Overall Photography: Vanity Fair. Photo director: Susan White, design director: David Harris.

* Photo portfolio:The New Yorker, December 7, 2009, for "Portraits of Power," photographed by Platon. Photo editor: Elisabeth Biondi.

* Photojournalism: National Geographic, May 2009, for "Shattered Somalia," photographed by Pascal Maitre. Director of photography: David Griffin.

Pictured above: A bunch of editors and two art directors show off their National Magazine Award "Ellies." Wired design director Wyatt Mitchell, center, in red pants and white shoes. To his left (that's your right) is Wired creative director Scott Dadich. Photograph by Steve Friedman.

National Magazine Awards Nominees Announced

Awards 03.11.10 posted by Robert Newman

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has announced the nominees for the 2010 National Magazine Awards.

The nominees for best design are:

Esquire / design director: David Curcurito

GQ / design director: Fred Woodward

Martha Stewart Living / design director: James Dunlinson

New York / design director: Chris Dixon

Wired / creative director: Scott Dadich

Nominees for best photography are:

GQ / design director: Fred Woodward; director of photography: Dora Somosi

National Geographic / design director: David Whitmore; director of photography: David Griffin

The New York Times Magazine / design director: Arem Duplessis; director of photography: Kathy Ryan

Vanity Fair / design director: David Harris; director of photography: Susan White

Vogue /

The 2009 winners were Wired for design and GQ for photography. Wired also won best design in 2008. Winners will be announced at the National Magazine Awards Gala on April 22.

UK Magazine Cover Awards 2009

Awards 10.14.09 posted by Robert Newman

The winners have been announced for the Maggies, the UK magazine cover awards competition. The overall winner was Q magazine, for their Lily Allen cover. There are seven categories, and five nominees in each. Check out their website for a great glance at state-of-the-art UK magazine design. (Thanks to Jeremy Leslie at Magculture for the tip.)

Annie Leibovitz Honored

Awards 05.01.09 posted by Casey Tierney

The highlight for me at last night's National Magazine Awards (aside from the good people of Automobile's acceptance speech which was freaking amazing) was ASME bestowing Annie Leibovitz with the Creative Excellence Award. A kind of Hall of Presidents graced the stage--Jann Wenner, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour and Graydon Carter--each to share their respect and gratitude for Annie's brilliance on the pages of their magazines. … MORE

ASME Nominations Announced

Awards 03.18.09 posted by The Editors

Happy days for many of our SPD-friends this afternoon as the ASME Nominations are announced... scrolling down to the really IMPORTANT categories, we see:

DESIGN: This category recognizes excellence in magazine design. The award honors the effectiveness of overall design, artwork, graphics and typography in enhancing a magazines unique mission and personality.

    Bon AppÃ©tit; Good; GQ; New York; WIRED

PHOTOGRAPHY: This category recognizes excellence in magazine photography. The award honors the effectiveness of photography, photojournalism and photo illustration in enhancing a magazines unique mission and personality.

    Bon AppÃ©tit; GQ; National Geographic; T, The New York Times Style Magazine; W

PHOTOJOURNALISM: This category recognizes the informative photographic documentation of an event or subject in real-time.

    Harper's Magazine; National Geographic; The New York Times Magazine (2 nominations); Time

PHOTO PORTFOLIO: This category honors creative photography and photo illustration (including portraiture or specially produced layouts on fashion, food, decorating, travel, design, the arts, etc.).

    Bon AppÃ©tit; GQ; Gourmet; The New Yorker; W

Congratulations to everyone for their amazing work, and be sure to check the ASME site for all the other great news about nominations for General Excellence, Reporting, and more! A good day for magazines!

SPD PUB 43 Design Annual Has (Almost) Arrived

Awards 11.25.08 posted by Dirk Barnett

Yep, that's right. The hotly anticipated SPD PUB 43 Design Annual will be reaching our shores from Singapore come mid/late December 2008! As it's chock full of the most innovative, exciting editorial design work from 2007--including the Magazine of the Year Winners and the Members' Choice winner--you will definitely want to get your hands on this one as soon as it hits the SPD offices!

Stay tuned to http://spd.org in the coming weeks for more information on how to get your copy, along with an in-depth Q&A from this year's annual designers, Weapon of Choice (Tom Brown and Todd Albertson), as they discuss their concepts behind the design, and why debossing isn't really as easy as it looks.

New York Leads with Six Nominations in ASME Cover Contest

Awards 09.22.08 posted by The Editors

The finalists for the 2008 ASME Cover Contest were announced today.

New York leads all nominees with 6 nods, including one for Cover of the Year (above), with the newly revamped Interview and The New Yorker, which received 4 total nominations. WIRED received three nominations, followed by The New York Times Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Texas Monthly, TIME, and Vanity Fair, all with 2 nominations apiece.

See all of the winners here.

Pub 44 Co-Chairs Announced

Awards 08.15.08 posted by The Editors

It's with a tremendous amount of pride and excitement that we announce that our very own member of the Board of Directors (and art director of W), Nathalie Kirsheh, will be joined by Judith Puckett Rinella, senior Photo Editor of T, The New York Times Style Magazine, as the 2008-2009 co-chairs of Pub 44.… MORE

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