We were bowled over by the massive quantity of designers and developers willing and ready to offer their opinions and knowledge to critique the stream of sites presented to us every day. Due to the extreme interest, we've closed the process early in order to have enough time consider each candidate on a case-by-case basis.
Thanks to everyone who took part, a big pat on the back to those of you who have made it through to the next round, you'll receive an email detailing the next steps.
Here are the bright sparks who have been invited to the next round:
- Lucas Nikitczuk (Argentina) - Estudio NK
- Marco Coppeto (Italy) - Ueno
- Antwan van der Mooren (The Netherlands) - DPDK
- Rich Brown (United Kingdom) - We Are Whole
- Joao de Almeida (The Netherlands) - MediaMonks
- Priscilla Gomez (United States) - Critical Mass
- Gilles Tossoukpé (France) - Freelance
- Alison Garnett (Canada) - SapientRazorfish
- Ivan Soria (Mexico) - WELOVECORNER
- Miro Koljanin (Slovenia) - DrawingArt
- Onur Can Coban (United States) - Hello Design
- Matteo Rostagno (United Kingdom) - AKQA
- Henrik Gånheim (Sweden) - State Interactive
- Jesse Zoutewelle (The Netherlands) - Greenberry
- Polina Mukhamedova (Russian Federation) - Conde Nast
- Antonio Vega (Spain) - 101
- Matteo Betori (Italy) - ThinkingAbout™
- Marcio (France) - Yhello
- Amélie Bracq (France) - BigYouth
- Julio Spinetto (Argentina) - Agencia EGO
- Priscilla Jacovani (Brazil) - follow55
- Jonas Emmertsen (Denmark) - Hello Monday
- Laura Geley (France) - Le Site
- João Prior (Portugal) - Hi INTERACTIVE
- Michal Jedrzejczyk (Poland) - soppo studio
- Denis Lomov (Russian Federation) - Red Collar
- Sunny (India) - Trionn Design
- Niklas Karlsson (Sweden) - State Interactive
- John-William Davey (United Arab Emirates) - MediaMonks
- Serkan Bayburtlu (United Kingdom) - DigitalPark
- Christian MacMillan (Spain) - Vasava
- Daniel Arenas (United States) - Redscout
- Julie Muckensturm (Denmark) - Spring/Summer
- Bastien Leprince (United Kingdom) - Sennep
- Jaap Kraan (The Netherlands) - 51North
- Laust Johan Deleuran (United States) - Koalition Interactive, LLC
- Jenny Johannesson (United States) - Ueno
- Robin Delaporte (The Netherlands) - RESN
- Geoffrey Joe (New Zealand) - Young+Shand
- Kai Brueckers (Germany) - JTL-Software
- Corentin (France) - 84.Paris
- Loris Stavrinides (Cyprus) - BLEND Digital Agency
- Dalibor Hajdinjak (Croatia) - Kreativa Studio
- Felipe Gubert (Brazil) - Deen Digital Marketing
- Petr Tichy (Australia) - Ihatetomatoes
- Thierry Michel (Belgium) - EPIC
- Idevã Batista (Brazil) - Nonlinear creations
- Fabian Irsara (Austria) - Fabian Irsara - Interactive Developer
- Adrián Somoza (Argentina) - R/GA
- Warre Buysse (Belgium) - Studio Twist & De Entourage
- Marie Benoist (France) - Freelance
- Daniele Pelagatti (Italy) - MONOGRID
- Alexey (Russian Federation) - Hungry Boys
- Michał Markowski (Poland) - Huncwot
- Alessandro Risso (Italy) - Risso Alessandro
- Mikha Makhoul (Germany) - Porsche
- Antonin Collard (United States) - AKQA NYC
- Amanda van Noordenne (The Netherlands) - DPDK
- Osman Akbay (Turkey) - 4129Grey WPP Company
- Edit Ballai (The Netherlands) - Spil Games, Imaginaerum Pictures
- Isusko (Spain) - Dimension
- Dario Merz (Switzerland) - Hinderling Volkart AG
- Anastasia Gorodetskaya (Ukraine) - Leo Burnett Ukraine
- Art Tsymbal (Ukraine) - Artkai
- Keeley laures (United States) - Freelance
- Jon Vlasach (United States) - BASIC
- Michele Angeloro (Japan) - 1-10
- Shunsuke Iseki (Japan) - baqemono.inc.
- Robert Bue (Norway) - Good Morning
- Pavel Kosov (Russian Federation) - InteractiveArts
- Mariusz Wnęk (Poland) - Freelance
- Stefano Caliandro (Italy) - Gusto IDS
- Jorge Hernandez (Denmark) - Molamil
- Pedro Burneiko (Brazil) - Almap BBDO
- Alexis Malin (Canada) - Phoenix The Creative Studio
- Hernan Puente (Argentina) - Indicius
- John Magas (Australia) - Nineteen Studio
- Thierry Michel (Belgium) - EPIC
- Felipe Elioenay (Canada) - F L P L N Y
- Mahedine Yahia (France) - Fred de la compta
- Giovanni Xu (France) - Make Me Pulse
- Marco Mittenzwey (Germany) - Aperto AG - An IBM Company
- Thomas Vimare (France) - Lonsdale Design
- Kennedy Rose (United States) - Smarter Games LLC
- Collin C Joyce (United States) - One Design Company
- Guillaume Hamon (United States) - Oui Will
- Jonathan Soares (United States) - Agency Labs
- Ben Hughes (United States) - Stinkdigital
- Tommy Treadway (United States) - Fourfootfive
- Morten Solvstrom (United States) - Hello Monday
- Robert Surrency (United States) - Freelance
- Louis Moncouyoux (United States) - Domani Studios
- Thiago Balzano (United States) - AKQA
- Nath Clark (United Kingdom) - Delete Agency
- Telmo Alves (United Kingdom) - MediaMonks
- Pete Brown (United Kingdom) - W12 Studios
- Brendan Kearns (United Kingdom) - InVision
- Chris Biron (United Kingdom) - NEVERBLAND
- Sergey (Ukraine) - Vintage
- Rinat Magomedov (Ukraine) - Promodo
- Nicolás Fonseca (Argentina) - South Bold
- Pim van Helten (The Netherlands) - DPDK
- Joost Huver (The Netherlands) - Studio Kraftwerk
- Mustafa Celik (Switzerland) - EF
- Filip Nordin (Sweden) - We Are Yours / Filipnordin.com
- Sergey Andronov (Russian Federation) - Looi Factory
- Roman Stetskov (Russian Federation) - Beta Digital Production
- Paweł Rębisz (Poland) - Pawel Rebisz
- Simon Lindsay (New Zealand) - Ustwo
- Hugo Moreno (Mexico) - Teko Estudio
- Masateru Nishinaga (Japan) - Hot-Factory.LTD
- Tomas Baruffaldi (Italy) - AQuest
- Andrea Cerboneschi (Italy) - Monocromo
- Francesco Milanesio (Italy) - Bitmama
- Luigi De Rosa (Belgium) - EPIC Agency
- Stefano Baldaccini (Italy) - Weberia
- Nicholas Ruggeri (Italy) - H-ART
- Gopal Raju (India) - publicis.sapient
- Sebastiano Pierotti (Italy) - Gusto Ids
- Bastien Allard (France) - Dankastudio
- Thiébault Delaporte-Richard (France) - Make Me Pulse
- Matthieu Kobler (France) - WERKSTATT
- Arthur Muchir (France) - 84.Paris
- Julien Blanchet (France) - Rezo Zero
- Michael Ligier (France) - 84.Paris
- Maxime Bérard (France) - Freelance
- Maxime Berthelot (France) - Freelance
- Giulian Drimba (Brazil) - Giulian Drimba
- Sander Kuypers (Denmark) - Spring/Summer
- Valentin Cervellera (France) - Brainra
- Kasper Andersen (Denmark) - Planday.com
- Pierre Nguyen (France) - Monsieur Caillou (freelance)
- Alejandro Vizio (Argentina) - Aerolab
- Alex McMahon (Australia) - Redback Tech
- Thales Ribeiro (Brazil) - Serious Business
- Pablo Gustavo Bacchetta (Argentina) - Neptuno
- Daniel Portuga (Brazil) - SapientNitro
- Arnaud Desjardins (France) - Femme Fatale Studio
- Richard Rodrigues (Brazil) - Vitrio
- Alessandro Rigobello (Italy) - Adoratorio
- Anatoliy Gromov (Sweden) - Fjord
- Ellie Hardy (United States) - Edelman SF