We are extremely proud and very happy to be announcing the winners of the first Faces of Design Awards!

The winners are:

• Anon Pairot, Bangkok
• Benjamin Morin, Paris
• C+S Associati, Treviso
• Christiane Bausback / N & P Industrial Design, Munich
• Claudia Caviezel, Unterkulm
• Cristina Toledo, Valencia
• Dora Kelemen, Budapest
• Elisa Honkanen, Paris
• Elise Fouin, Paris
• Format Design, Hamburg
• Garry Cohn, Dublin
• Grafixpol, Lodsz
• In-sync design, Melbourne
• James Barker, Norwich
• Jennaca Davies, Rhode Island
• Johanna Keimeyer, Berlin
• Kawamura - Ganjavian, Madrid
• Laura McCusker, Hobart
• Leo Chao, Vancouver
• Magma Brand Design, Karlsruhe
• Mauricio Affonso, Toronto
• Max Steffen, Brussels
• Naroska Design, Berlin
• Plan B Works, Madrid
• Reto Häfliger, Brugg
• Ricky Lo, Hong Kong
• Sabrina Müller, Munich
• Sven Adolph / Momentum, Zurich
• Ueberholz, Wuppertal
• Uli Budde, Berlin

These are the three candidates with the most votes overall:

• Anon Pairot, Bangkok
• Claudia Caviezel, Unterkulm
• Elisa Honkanen, Paris

These three will have the chance to pick their three favourite companies for whom they would like to work, and we will do everything we can, using our extensive network in the design scene, to get them a personal introduction to one of them.

The following participants gained a Special Mention by the judges:

• Anon Pairot, Bangkok
• Antoine Fritsch-Associés, Conflans Sainte Honorine
• Claudia Caviezel, Unterkulm
• Format Design, Hamburg
• Julia Bruderer, Zurich
• Kawamura - Ganjavian, Madrid
• Marion Chatel-Chaix, Paris

And a Special Price for the best online portfolio goes to

• Ett la Benn, Berlin

(Please note: In order to see the winners' profiles, you will in most cases need to be logged in to the site, and some portfolios may not yet be made public due to pending copyright issues with some of the pictures etc. If you are one of the winners and have not yet made your portfolio public, please consider doing so if at all possible - understandably, everyone will be very curious now!)

The winners of the Faces of Design Awards will now be presented to over 1.000 key decision makers in the world of design in an elegant print publication.   Click here to download a pdf version of the Winners' Publication:

Take a sneaky peak at some of the contents of the publication:

Thank you all very much for participating,

and for your many encouraging notes, questions and tremendously helpful feedback! We are very much looking forward to creating more opportunities like this for you in the future - and of course we hope to see you again for the Faces of Design Awards 2011! Please keep in touch and let us know how you're doing!