The shortlist has been announced for Press Gazette's revamped Magazine Design Awards (MDA) and the newly launched sister event, the Magazine Journalism Awards (MJA). Both awards celebrate the magazine industry’s wealth of creative visual and editorial talent across consumer, customer and business to business publications.
The two independent judging panels, chaired by magazine doyenne Sally O’Sullivan and comprising 40 highly experienced magazine industry representatives, will meet for stage two of the judging process where, after round table debate, winners will be decided in a secret ballot vote.
Congratulating the finalists, Sally O'Sullivan said: "British magazines are amongst the finest in the world and this is, again, proved by the fantastic standard of entries in this year's Press Gazette Magazine Awards.
"As all of us in the business know, success is the result of team excellence and it has been exciting to see such excellence alive and well at every level and in every discipline. All finalists should feel immensely proud of their journalistic talents; the competition is high and reaching final decisions not easy."
The overall Magazine Journalist of the Year award will be awarded to one of the winners from the individual categories and announced at the ceremony on 26 October.
A special award being inaugurated this year is the Magazine Icon of the Year that will be judged by both MDA and MJA panels who will vote on the person or the brand that has achieved iconic status in 2006.
All winners will be announced at a glittering evening celebration dinner at the contemporary and stylish Riverbank Park Plaza on Thursday 26 October 2006. Booking forms are available from www.magazineawards.co.uk
Magazine Design Awards
| Young Designer of the Year (new category) | |
|---|---|
| Jonny Clark | AirTran Airways .GO. Magazine |
| Loraine Fajutag | Glamour |
| Jody Hockley | F1 Racing |
| Amar Hussain | Inside Out |
| Tanita Montgomery | New Woman |
| Tina Smith | Property Week |
| Rob Timm | Icon |
| Best Use of Typography |
|---|
| EI8GHT |
| Esquire |
| Icon |
| New Statesman |
| Ritz |
| Time Out London |
| Best Use of Photography |
|---|
| E25 |
| EI8GHT |
| Esquire |
| Liv |
| Onelife |
| Sunday Times Magazine (Hmong Tribe) |
| Best Designed Business to Business Magazine |
|---|
| Contact |
| Galerie Papers |
| Inside Housing |
| Pharmacy Today |
| Real Business |
| The Power Station |
| 33 Thoughts |
| Best Designed Customer Magazine |
|---|
| Galerie Papers |
| Ideas |
| Onelife |
| Ritz |
| Toni & Guy |
| 33 Thoughts |
| Best Designed Consumer Magazine (circulation under 40k) |
|---|
| EI8GHT |
| Grand Designs |
| Icon |
| Map |
| New Statesman |
| Total Course Fishing |
| Best Designed Consumer Magazine (circulation over 40k) |
|---|
| Cbeebies Weekly |
| GQ (The Men of the Year) |
| Grazia |
| Inside Out |
| Olive |
| Time |
| Best Designed Feature Pages |
|---|
| Chemistry World |
| Goodwood Revival |
| Grazia |
| lighter life |
| Mixmag |
| Observer Food Monthly |
| Observer Sport Monthly |
| Best New Design/Redesign |
|---|
| Contact |
| Crystallized |
| Mazda |
| New Statesman |
| Toni & Guy |
| Which? |
| Consumer Front Cover of the Year |
|---|
| EI8GHT |
| GQ (Robbie Williams) |
| New Statesman (America.s Robot Army) |
| News Statesman (Oil) |
| Radio Times (Cybermen/Daleks) |
| Time Out London |
| Customer Front Cover of the Year |
|---|
| @ Home |
| David Morris Stores |
| Onelife |
| Nikon pro |
| Ritz |
| The London Magazine |
| Voyager |
| Business to Business Front Cover of the Year |
|---|
| Contact |
| Financial Director |
| Pharmacy Today |
| Real Business |
| The Power Station |
| Young People Now |
| Magazine Designer of the Year (new category) | |
|---|---|
| Violetta Boxill | Icon / Grand Designs / Wallpaper |
| Chris Parker | Galerie Papers / Crystallized |
| Tan Parmar | Liv / Contact |
| Paul Solomons | GQ |
| Suzanne Sykes | Grazia |
| Micha Weidmann | Time Out London |
Magazine Journalism Awards
| Exclusive of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Alex Bilmes | GQ (Robbie Williams) |
| Martin Bright | New Statesman |
| Laura Donnelly | Health Service Journal |
| Nerys Hairon | Pulse |
| Melanie Rickey | Grazia |
| Gordon Thomson | Time Out London |
| Feature Writer of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Clare Barrett | Property Week |
| Robert Chalmers | GQ |
| Jeff Maysh | Loaded |
| J.F.O McAllister | Time |
| Simon Robinson | Time |
| Andrea Thompson | Grazia |
| Emily Wright | Building |
| Interviewer of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Alex Bilmes | GQ |
| Andrew Duncan | Radio Times |
| Marcus Fairs | Icon |
| Justin McGuirk | Icon |
| Sylvia Patterson | Glamour |
| David Rae | Financial Director |
| Columnist of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Paul Horrell | BBC Top Gear Magazine |
| Simon Kelner | GQ |
| Tom Norrington-Davies | Delicious |
| Phil Peverley | Pulse |
| David Rae | Financial Director |
| Nigel Slater | Sainsbury.s Magazine |
| Peter Wilby | New Statesman |
| News Reporter of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Sarah Arnott | Computing |
| Tony Collins | Computer Weekly |
| Daniel Cressey | Pulse |
| Helen Mooney | Health Service Journal |
| Adam Ralph | Nuts |
| Rebecca Taylor | Time Out London |
| Daniel Thomas | Property Week |
| Business Reporter of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Sinead Cruise | Property Week |
| Alex Hawkes | Accountancy Age |
| Martin Hilditch | Inside Housing |
| Mark Leftly | Building |
| Vikki Miller | Building |
| Sarah Richardson | Building |
| Michael Taylor | North West Business Insider |
| Reviewer of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Andrew Billen | New Statesman |
| Andrew Collins | Radio Times |
| Boris Johnson | GQ |
| Kieran Long | Icon |
| Matt Master | BBC Top Gear Magazine |
| Ben Walters | Time Out London |
| Subbing Team of the Year |
|---|
| Cosmogirl! Magazine |
| Glamour |
| GQ |
| Jane's Information Group |
| Inside Out |
| Radio Times |
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