We are extremely proud and very happy to be announcing the winners of the

Faces of Design  Awards 2012!

The winners are:

24° Studio, Japan
38E Design / Manos Stamatakis, Greece
Anika Engelbrecht, Germany
Carolina Caicedo, USA
Coordination, Germany
Ewa Sendecka, Poland
Finna Leibenguth, Germany
Hidde Kleinhesselink, The Netherlands
InSync Design, Australia
Jim Rokos, UK
Julia Zaremba, Poland
studio maarten kolk & guus kusters, The Netherlands
Laura Strasser, Germany
Makiko Shinoda, Japan/The Netherlands
MDK /Miranda Kaloudis, Switzerland
Mirca Maffi, Switzerland
Nicolas Stadler, France
Niko Economides, USA
Olga Mieloszyk, Poland
One Plus Partnership Limited, China
PCH Innovations, Germany
Pedro Gomes, Portugal
Sebastian Scherer, Germany
and Tristan Cochrane, Spain

These are the three candidates with the most votes overall:

Laura Strasser, Germany
Hidde Kleinhesselink, The Netherlands
Anika Engelbrecht, Germany

The following participants gained a Special Mention by the judges:

Pedro Gomes, Portugal
studio maarten kolk & guus kusters, The Netherlands
Sebastian Scherer, Germany
... and Makiko Shinoda, who, for the first time ever, received a total of four independent Special Mentions. Congratulations on this exceptional result, Makiko!

The winners of the Faces of Design Awards will now be presented to over 1.200 key decision makers in the world of design in an elegant print publication.

 (Publication date: May 2012)

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!

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 - please keep in touch and let us know how you're doing!