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PUB 45: All the Winners

SPD is proud to announce the full list of winners part of our 45th year, representing the best work created and printed in the 2009 editorial year, the rarest of Rare Specimens, joining a collection of work that stretches back to the beginnings of SPD in 1965 and today sets a new standard for excellence in visual communication.

After the jump, a list of all the winning magazines part of SPD's PUB 45 Competition... … MORE

PUB 45 Call For Entries: Rare Specimens Requested

Now in our 45th year, SPD's acclaimed "Rare Specimens" competition has cultivated hundreds of remarkable entries from the most knowledgeable and esteemed designers, photo editors and assorted editorial experts from around the civilized world. Taken together, these selected works promote and recognize champion editorial work from print and online manufacture; the jury reviews each specimen as to how it upholds the greatest of attributes in each of these principles: uniformity of overall structure, uniqueness, and clarity, as well as good taste and charm.

Rare specimens are now requested from all corners of the world, from the glossiest of the glossies to the ground-breaking alt-weeklies, from online video and blog reporting to limited-run 'zines and local broadsheets, from corporate missives to specialty niche publications. Download entry forms & rules here.

Entries due by FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010 without a late penalty.

2009 has been a challenging, tumultuous year in our industry, but one that has proven the rule: from great challenges can come some of the best solutions. Inspire your colleagues!

PUB 45: And the Jury Is...

As you begin to sift through your work from 2009, selecting your own Rare Specimens from the Editorial world to submit to SPD's PUB 45 Competition, you'll be encouraged to know that your work, your best work, side-by-side on the table with the best work from your peers, is being judged by the best of the best as well:

COMPETITION CO-CHAIRS:
Debra Bishop, CD, More
Casey Tierney, DP, Real Simple

Captains and the jury, as well as some special notes about the judging, after the jump...
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