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
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.
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- 01 January 2013
- Milan