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