Meet the NMA Finalists for Magazine Covers
A great magazine cover attracts the reader with alluring images and solid display; the perfect blend of editorial and design that makes the magazine such a unique and special medium. At this year’s National Magazine Awards gala on June 7 [INFO & TICKETS] one of these 10 nominees will earn the right to be called Canada’s best magazine cover:
“Are We Happy Yet?” – Adbusters, Art Direction by Will Brown and Pedro Inoue
“March/April 2012″ – Azure, Art Direction by Concrete Design Communications
“The New Oilpatch” – Canadian Business, Art Direction by John Montgomery
“The Secret Khadr File” – Maclean’s, Art Direction by Stephen Gregory
“Issue 45″ – Maisonneuve, Art Direction by Anna Minzhulina
“Colombia” – Report on Business, Art Direction by Domenic Macri
“January 12, 2012″ – The Grid, Art Direction by Vanessa Wyse
“That Time We Beat the Americans” – The Walrus, Art Direction by Brian Morgan & Anita Kunz
“The Northwest Passage” – Up Here, Art Direction by John Pekelsky
“July/August 2012″ – Vancouver Magazine, Art Direction by Randall Watson
Congratulations to all the nominees in Magazine Covers. The Gold and Silver winners will be revealed at the 36th annual National Magazine Awards gala on June 7 at The Carlu in Toronto. [INFO & TICKETS]
Meet the NMA Finalists for:
Art Direction for an Entire Issue
Photojournalism & Photo Essay
Best New Magazine Writer
Illustration
Announcing the Nominees for the 36th National Magazine Awards!
Today the NMAF announces the nominees for the 36th annual National Magazine Awards!
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In the category Magazine of the Year the jury has selected four finalists:
Corporate Knights
Cottage Life
Uppercase
Urbania
Nominated for Tablet Magazine of the Year are Canadian House & Home (“The Colour Issue”), Maclean’s (“Canada’s Best Restaurants”) and Chez Soi (“Noël 100% déco”).
And the nominees for Magazine Website of the Year are Hazlitt, Maclean’s and Toronto Life.
The winner of the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement, announced on April 30, is Stephen Trumper.
Leading all magazines with 29 nominations for this year’s National Magazine Awards is Toronto Life, followed by L’actualité (24), The Walrus (23), The Grid (22), Maclean’s and Report on Business (20 each).
Top Nominated Magazines for the 36th National Magazine Awards:
| Magazine |
Written |
Integrated |
Visual |
Special |
Total |
| Toronto Life |
19 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
29 |
| L’actualité |
20 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
24 |
| The Walrus |
15 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
23 |
| The Grid |
8 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
22 |
| Maclean’s |
17 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
20 |
| Report on Business |
13 |
3 |
4 |
0 |
20 |
| Maisonneuve |
10 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
14 |
| Cottage Life |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
10 |
| Eighteen Bridges |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
| Sportsnet |
9 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
10 |
| enRoute |
3 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
9 |
| The New Quarterly |
7 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
Magazine of the Year Finalist
Nine magazines are nominated for National Magazine Awards for the first time:
Chez Soi
Globe Style Advisor (3 nominations)
Hazlitt (4 nominations)
Infopresse
Le Must
New Trail
Nouveau Projet (2 nominations)
Ottawa Citizen Style
Write Magazine
Chris Turner leads all individual finalists with 4 nominations in written categories for his work in Canadian Geographic, Marketing and The Walrus. Garnering 3 individual nominations are Catherine Dubé (L’actualité), Dan Robson (Sportsnet), Iain Marlow (Report on Business) and Dominique Forget (ELLE Québec, Jobboom and L’actualité).
Magazine of the Year Finalist
The article “Building with the Brigadier” (Report on Business) by Greg McArthur and Graeme Smith has the distinction of being nominated in 3 categories: Business, Investigative Reporting and Politics & Public Interest.
The 10 finalists for the best Canadian Magazine Cover of 2012 come from Adbusters, Azure, Canadian Business, Maclean’s, Maisonneuve, Report on Business, The Grid, The Walrus, Up Here and Vancouver.
There are 8 finalists for the award for Best Single Issue: Cottage Life (“June 2012”), enRoute (“The Food Issue”), LE Must (“Santé alimentaire”), Maisonneuve (“Tenth Anniversary Issue”), The Feathertale Review (“Issue 9”), The Grid (“May 10”), The Walrus (“November 2012”) and Toronto Life (“The Loneliest Man in Toronto”).
The 3 finalists for Best New Magazine Writer are Chris Hampton (for “The Place Where Art Sleeps”; Maisonneuve), Sierra Skye Gemma (for “The Wrong Way”; The New Quarterly), and May Jeong (“The Cult of Pastor Song”; Toronto Life).
Magazine of the Year Finalist
In addition to the new category Tablet Magazine of the Year, for 2012 the NMAF created 2 other new categories for digital content. In the new integrated category Online Video, the 5 finalists are “Balcony Makeover” (Canadian House & Home), “Les coulisses du reportage mode Icône” (ELLE Québec), “Pagelicker 01: Irvine Welsh” (Hazlitt), “Reboot on Life” (Ottawa Citizen Style), and “Toronto’s National Anthem” (The Grid).
Of the 10 finalists in the new written category Blogs, 6 are from Maclean’s, 2 from Torontoist, and 1 each from L’actualité and Today’s Parent.
Congratulations to all the finalists!
[PDF Nominations List]
Magazine of the Year Finalist
The 36th annual National Magazine Awards Gala
Join us for the 36th annual National Magazine Awards, Friday June 7 at the fabulous Carlu in Toronto. [Tickets]
Gold and Silver awards will be handed down on June 7 in 24 written categories, 12 visual categories and 6 integrated categories. All other finalists will receive Honourable Mention. Winners will also be celebrated in 5 special categories: Outstanding Achievement, Best New Magazine Writer, Magazine Website of the Year, Tablet Magazine of the Year, and Magazine of the Year.
Gold winners in written, visual and integrated categories (except Best Single Issue) receive a cash prize of $1000; Silver winners $500. The winner of Best New Magazine Writer receives a cash prize of $500.
Credit Changes
If you are a National Magazine Award nominee, please let us know of any credit changes to your nomination no later than Thursday May 9, 2013.
Thank you!
A grand thank you to all of our judges who evaluated this year’s entries to the National Magazine Awards. From nearly 2,000 individual entries nationwide, the NMAF’s 251 volunteer judges nominated a total of 365 submissions from 87 different Canadian magazines for awards in 47 written, visual, integrated and special categories.
Acknowledgements
The National Magazine Awards Foundation acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage, as well as financial support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation. The National Magazine Awards Foundation gratefully acknowledges its suppliers and its contributors who donated gifts in kind to support the awards program. We thank them for their generosity, interest and expertise.
New cover of Boston Magazine honours the resilience of a city
Boston magazine’s “We Will Finish the Race” cover on its May issue is being called perfect. The magazine put a call out for donations of shoes from this year’s race to photograph this iconic image, which taps into the collective grief, resilience and catharsis of a city following the Boston Marathon bombings.
According to an article in Runner’s World, the May issue of the magazine was about to head to the printer on that fateful day, but the publishers were able to obtain an extension to re-shoot their cover in the wake of the tragedy. The magazine received over 150 pairs of shoes in donation and interviewed each of the donors about their experience in the race. 15 of those stories appear in the May issue.
Boston associate Art Director Liz Noftle told Yahoo! News:
We wanted to do something really special that would honor the runners and everything they had to go through in the events of marathon. We had only a few days to pull something together. Monday night we came up with the concept, and Tuesday began to execute it. It was only made possible by the help of everyone on staff. We reached out to anyone and everyone to collect shoes in less than 48 hours. It was a tremendous effort by everyone—people going out of their way to bring in shoes, interns collecting them, organizing couriers to bring them here. Then we drove them all down to New York on Thursday, where Mitchell Feinberg photographed them, and we closed the magazine while the city was in lockdown on Friday.
More behind the scenes at Boston magazine.
Chatelaine’s bold and bilingual new logo
The award-winning magazine Chatelaine has redesigned its cover logo on its May 2013 print issue and sleek website, featuring a bold and bilingual typography integrating l’accent circonflexe of its French counterpart, Châtelaine, which will also use the same logo beginning with the June 2013 issue.
According to a story in Marketing,
The all-uppercase logo, described as “fresh, modern and clean” by publisher Tara Tucker, uses the Neutraface 2 typeface and is bilingual (it has a stylized circumflex on the first “a”). Tucker said the timing was right to debut a new look as the magazine is kicking off its 85th anniversary celebrations in June.” [Read more]
Since 1977 Chatelaine and Châtelaine have won 15 and 23 National Magazine Awards, respectively.
{ Tip o’ the hat: Canadian Magazines blog }
Atlantic Journalism Awards finalists announced
The annual Atlantic Journalism Awards gala will be held on Saturday, May 11 at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel. The finalists were announced last week, and the magazine nominees include Herald Magazine, Saltscapes, Progress, East Coast Living, Atlantic Salmon Journal, CBC Maritime Magazine, and Atlantic Business Magazine.
The 3 finalists for the coveted award of Best Magazine Cover are:
East Coast Living, Summer 2012
Saltscapes, January/Feburary 2012
Atlantic Salmon Journal, December 2012
In the category for best Atlantic Magazine Article, the three finalists are:
- John DeMont, Herald Magazine, ”Does Nova Scotia Get the Government it Deserves?”
- Marjorie Simmins, Progress Magazine, “To the Manor Born”
- Martin Silverstone, Atlantic Salmon Journal, ”Atlantic Salmon to the End”
And for best Magazine Profile Article, the nominees are:
- John DeMont, Herald Magazine, “Graham Day”
- Martin Silverstone, Atlantic Salmon Journal, “River Princess”
- Paul McLeod, Herald Magazine, “Kathy Dunderdale’s Revolution”
Check out all the finalists here. Winners will be announced on May 11.
Best Cover finalists for the Alberta Magazine Awards
With the 2013 Alberta Magazine Awards ceremony coming up on the calendar on March 14 (part of the Alberta Magazines Conference of March 14-15 in Calgary), we’re looking forward to seeing who will take the top honours this year.
Among the 14 Showcase categories to be presented at the gala is the always intriguing competition for Best Magazine Cover. Here’s a look at the 8 finalists this year for the top Alberta magazine cover:
Ryan Girard, art director; Marco Cibola, illustrator
Ryan Girard and Kim Larson, art directors; John Gaucher, photographer
Kim Larson, art director; Gary Stevensen, illustrator
Anders Knudsen and Erin Burns, art directors; Jared Sych, photographer; Alicja Wilkosz, hair and makeup; Julie Van Rosendaal, food stylist
Marcey Andrews, art director; Raymond Biesinger, illustrator
Cathy Ozubko, creative lead; Joel Kadziolka, designer; Deborah Jaremko, editor
Vishu Mahajan, art director; Joey Podlubny, photographer
Danae Thompson, art director; Josh Holinaty, illustrator
Check out all the finalists here. The winner of Best Cover and all the other Alberta Magazine Awards will be announced on March 14.
Vote for your favourite British magazine cover
The United Kingdom’s Professional Publisher’s Association is marking its 100th anniversary with a magazine covers contest open to public vote.
While there are only ten finalists from which to choose (rather disappointing, considering the thousands of titles and hundreds of thousands of magazine issues that have been published since 1913), the small selection is spread across generations and broad topics, from the world wars to technology, from the first issue of Cosmo to the legacies of Churchill, Chernobyl and Darth Vader.
This blogger was drawn to the 1941 Harper’s Bazaar cover featuring plump, almost Atari-like bombs falling around St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, with a brilliant yellow streak of fabric drawing the eye up through a blood-red bow to the helmeted dress form. The absence of cover lines makes a lasting impact, and the inherent nostalgia of the price line (“two shillings and sixpence”) probably swayed me, too. A magazine cover for its time and all time. (Or so says one voice. What do you think?)
Click here to view the finalists and vote. Voting closes on the distant date of September 30, 2013, and the winner will be announced on November 21, the exact one-hundred-year anniversary of PPA’s establishment.
{Tip o’ the hat: Canadian Magazines blog}
Elle Québec, SkyNews, Canadian Business among winners at Canadian Cover Awards
[This post has been updated] Last night at the Courtyard Hotel in downtown Toronto the redesigned Canadian Cover Awards were presented to an audience of Canadian magazine industry professionals. Produced by CMC and Magazines Canada, and sponsored by the Alliance for Audited Media, the reception showcased awards for the most successful Canadian magazine cover in 7 categories:
- Fashion, Shopping & Bridal: ELLE Québec, August 2012 (“Véronique Cloutier“)
- General Interest, Arts, Lifestyle & Regional: Legion Magazine, Jan/Feb 2012 (“The War of 1812“)
- Home & Decor: Style at Home, September 2011 (“Bathroom Style“)
- News, Business & Celebrity: Canadian Business, February 20, 2012 (“Crash: Why House Prices are about to Fall“)
- SIPs and New Magazines: Maclean’s Royal Wedding Special
- Sports & Leisure: SkyNews, May/June 2012 (“Transit of Venus“)
- Women’s Service: Chatelaine, February 2012 (“Comfort Food Makeovers“)
Three finalists were named in each category. UPDATE: Magazines Canada press release on the winners.
Additionally, SkyNews publisher and veteran industry leader Greg Keilty was named Newsstand Marketer of the Year.
Cottage Life magazine’s circulation coordinator Amanda Beattie hosted the event. The awards competition was open to all Canadian magazine issues distributed on Canadian newsstands in 2011 and 2012 that are now sales final.
Twitter reax and more.
Related post: New Canadian Cover Awards now accepting submissions
New Canadian Cover Awards now accepting submissions
The redeveloped Canadian Cover Awards / Grands prix canadiens-Meilleures couvertures are accepting submissions for their eight categories until January 25, 2013.
The awards recognize and celebrate the success of the Canadian magazine industry’s top selling magazine covers. Honours go to titles with sizzling sell lines, compelling photography, clever illustrations—whatever made the consumer pick up and purchase that magazine.
The entry fee is $90 for the first entry, $75 for the second, and $55 each for the 3rd entry and beyond.
Visit coverawards.ca for details.
Magazine of the Year Maisonneuve redesigns cover for Winter 2012
The Winter 2012 issue of Maisonneuve, featuring the National Magazine Award seal for Magazine of the Year, and with a cover story by NMA winner Alison Motluk on the risks of human egg donation.
Notice, too, the new design of the cover by award-winning Art Director Anna Minzhulina, with the title and logo much bigger, and the absence of cover lines for a cleaner, bolder cover. (The cover lines appear on a half-cover for newsstand and subscription copies.)
By comparison, at right is the recent Fall 2012 cover.
Read more about the issue and the redesign here.
The making of a Sportsnet magazine cover
Sportsnet, the sharp new magazine launched a year ago–and which won a pair of National Magazine Awards earlier this year–just released this great video on how a magazine cover is created.
(Hat tip Canadian Magazines via J-source)
For more on Sportsnet‘s National Magazine Award-winning work, visit the NMA archives.
OWL Magazine redesigned for 35th anniversary
Remember the magazine that got you started loving magazines? Well, it’s 35 years old and still inspiring children to form a lasting bond with learning and literacy. OWL, the National Magazine Award-winning periodical for 9-13 year olds, has rolled out a redesign for its 35th anniversary:
OWL has been nominated for 13 National Magazine Awards in its history. Former art director Tim Davin twice won a NMA for his creative design of the magazine. And in 1993, no doubt to the glee of many who grew up with the magazine, OWL was named Canada’s Magazine of the Year.
Read more over at the Masthead blog on the redesign of OWL.
Meet the NMA Finalists for Magazine Covers
On June 7 the NMAF will announce the winners of the 2011 National Magazine Awards at our 35th anniversary gala. One of the most coveted prizes is that of Magazine Covers. Previous winners include Weekend Magazine, Quest, The Idler, Shift, Equinox, Saturday Night and Azure, among others.
For 2011 there are 10 finalists for the National Magazine Award for best Magazine Cover:
“Blackberry is Toast / A Toast to Blackberry” – Canadian Business – Art Direction by Una Janicijevic; Contributors: Jason Logan, Ronit Novak, Shanghoon
This is the third time that Canadian Business has been nominated for Magazine Covers.
“Earn Your Stripes on Canada’s Wildest Slopes” – enRoute – Art Direction by Nathalie Cusson
enRoute has now been nominated nine times for Magazine Covers; they won Gold in 1994.
“Jeff Mallett” – Report on Business – Art Direction by Domenic Macri
This year marks the eighth Magazine Covers nomination for Report on Business and seventh for Art Director Domenic Macri since 2003. They won Gold in 2005 and 2009.
“Got Spunk?” – The Grid – Art Direction by Vanessa Wyse
Launched in May 2011, The Grid has been nominated for seventeen total NMAs in its first year at the awards, including twice for Magazine Covers.
“Beyond Gay” – The Grid – Art Direction by Vanessa Wyse
“The Future of Food” – The Walrus – Art Direction by Brian Morgan
This is the seventh nomination for The Walrus in Magazine Covers since 2003. They won Silver in 2006 and 2007.
“45th Anniversary Special” – This Magazine – Art Direction by David Donald
Its 45th anniversary cover is the fourth nomination all time for This Magazine in Magazine Covers.
“The Truth about Tim Hudak” – Toronto Life – Art Direction by Christine Dewairy
Toronto Life is a four-time Gold winner for Magazine Covers, most recently in 2008. They also won the Gold here at the very first National Magazine Awards in 1977.
“Bébés” – Urbania – Art Direction by Philippe Lamarre
Urbania won Silver in this category last year, and has been nominated a total of four times since 2005.
“101 Things to Taste” – Vancouver Magazine – Art Direction by Randall Watson
For Vancouver Magazine and Art Director Randall Watson, this is their sixth nomination for Magazine Covers since 2004.
The winner will be revealed June 7 at the 35th anniversary National Magazine Awards. Tickets are on sale now.
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Vote for Your Favourite Quebec Magazine Cover
The Quebec Magazine Awards (locally known as Les Grands Prix des Magazines du Québec) are offering mag fans the chance to vote for their favourite cover from amongst the 10 finalists for that award. You can vote up until May 14. The winner of the public vote will be revealed before the actual winner (according to the judges) at the Grands Prix gala later this month.
National Magazine Award-winning Covers 2007-2010
As we count down to the announcement — May 1 — of the nominees for the 35th anniversary National Magazine Awards, we’re taking a look back at some of the award-winning creative from the past four years. Today: Gold award winners in the category Magazine Covers.
2007
Maisonneuve, Winter 2007; Creative direction by Anna Minzhulina
2008
Toronto Life, August 2008; Creative direction by Jessica Rose
2009
Report on Business, May 2009; Creative direction by Domenic Macri
2010
"Issue #6" - The Feathertale Review. Creators: Lee H. Wilson, Dani Crosby, Brett Popplewell
The 35th anniversary National Magazine Awards will be held on June 7. Nominations and ticket information coming May 1 at www.magazine-awards.com.
2011 Atlantic Journalism Awards finalists announced
Congratulations to the nominees for the 2011 Atlantic Journalism Awards, including popular periodicals Saltscapes, Atlantic Business Journal, Halifax Magazine, Nova Scotia Open to the World, East Coast Living, and The Coast.
Finalists were announced last week in 28 categories for magazine, newspaper, online and broadcast journalism based in Atlantic Canada.
The coveted award for Atlantic Magazine Best Cover will come down to three finalists:
Atlantic Business Magazine (“The Rise of Generation Plus,” March 2011); Halifax Magazine (“Going to the Big Leagues,” October 2011); and East Coast Living (“Back to Life,” Winter 2011).
See the full list of finalists here. The winners will be revealed at the annual AJA Gala on May 5, 2012 in Fredericton. Tickets are on sale now.
First Covers of Canadian Magazines
Our friends at Magazines Canada’s new blog – Canadian Magazines Canadiens – are compiling a virtual collection of first covers of famous Canadian magazines, through an ongoing series of blog posts. So far we’ve seen first covers of National Magazine Award-winning magazines Chatelaine, This Magazine, Cottage Life, AdBusters, The Walrus, Maclean’s, Geist, Elle Quebec, The Beaver, The Fiddlehead, The Capilano Review, and more.
Although this Chatelaine debut cover predates the National Magazine Awards by almost fifty years, it probably would have swayed the judges then or now. Adorable kids on the cover? Some things never change.
Have a look at the new CMC blog first covers collection, and if you know of a first cover of a magazine, let ‘em know.
NMA director wins gold at ADCC
Congratulations are in order to recently elected NMAF board member Brian Morgan, by day the Creative Director at The Walrus, who took home the gold prize in the Magazine Covers category at the Advertising and Design Club of Canada (ADCC) awards yesterday. The captivating (and uniquely hued) April 2011 cover of the magazine was the favourite of the judges. Brian also won a National Magazine Award in 2009 in the Best Single Issue category.
Way to go, Brian!
