Best of 2012 #design

From an exhibition where the viewer becomes part of the design process to a growing number of repair groups inverting a throwaway mentality, here are this year's best design stories.

In 2012, we visited World Wide Rome, the event that allowed the word makers to finally enter the Italian dictionary. In Cape Town, this year's edition of Design Indaba featured a sort of celebratory optimism at its heart, while at the Vitra Design Museum, an exhibition allows the viewer to become part of the design process. During the 2012 edition of Milan's Salone del Mobile, we surveyed the week's highlights with an extended coverage that included videos, interviews and photo-essays.

This year, we examined graduation shows of Europe's most influent design schools, as was seen in Paris at the Galerie VIA; and we visited the London Design Festival and Dutch Design Week, highlighting a series of projects. In Genk, Z33's exhibition The Machine provided a conceptually solid framework to understand some of the most dramatic shifts in design today, while in The Netherlands and a bit all over the world, a growing number of repair groups are inverting the tendency of contemporary society's throwaway mentality by fixing what is broken. Finally, in New York, several stories from the New Aesthetic share the increasing awareness of, and developing attitudes about, the integration of technology and everyday life.

Below are our best design stories from 2012.

Best of 2012 #design
Making the future
Changing costumes
Confrontations: Unexpected Intrusions of Beauty
Salone 2012
VIA, les écoles de design
The new industrial revolution
London Design Festival 2012
Amplifying the fixers movement
Stories from the New Aesthetic
Dutch Design Week 2012

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