Apple announces the 2012 Apple Design Award winners

Apple announced its 2012 Apple Design Award winners this afternoon at Moscone West after the opening keynote. Apple opened this year’s award nominations in late April, but today we get a look at who won. The winners received a hefty load of prizes, including: a special lanyard to commemorate the event, a new MacBook Air, a new third-generation iPad, an iPod touch, and the good-looking ADA trophy seen in the image above. You can check out the list of apps compiled by MacStories below.

iPhone winners

• Where’s my Water?
• Jetpack Joyride
• National Parks by National Geographic

iPad winners

• Paper
• Bobo Explores Light 
• DM1 – The Drum Machine

Mac winners

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution Ultimate Edition
• Limbo
• Sketch

Student winners

• DaWindci (iPad)
• Little Star (iPad)

Last year’s winners included: iPhone apps Infinity Blade, Cut the Rope, and Golfscape GPS Rangefinder; and, iPad apps djay for iPad, Osmos, and Our Choice. For Mac developers, Capo, Pixelmator, and Anomaly Warzone Earth took home last year’s awards.

via CNET