ASME Announces 2010 National Magazine Award Finalists

Rouse yourself from your iPad-coveting daydreams and check out the just-released list of finalists for the National Magazine Awards, bestowed annually by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). Below we’ve listed the finalists in the design and photo categories, including a nod for Platon‘s extraordinary “Portaits of Power” portfolio, published in the December 7 issue of The New Yorker, and Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin‘s work in the October issue of W. Meanwhile, after winning two consecutive National Magazine Awards for general excellence in its circulation category (under 100,000), Print was not nominated this year, but another design book—Architect, edited by Ned Cramer—snuck in to the group, where it will compete against Aperture, Military History, The Paris Review, and San Francisco.