Designs of the Year 2012

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This year’s Designs of the Year show has opened at the Design Museum, with the usual eclectic mix of exhibits ranging from architecture to miniature vacuum cleaners via a wedding dress, an ambulance and some websites. Plus, of course, a few editorial projects. Here they are.





The front covers of Bloomberg Businessweek have become news events in their own right, and the brief slection from the last year demonstrate the variety Richard Turley and team rustle up weekly.



The Guardian’s excellent iPad app is one of two publishing apps in the show. It’s becoming ever more relavent now the printed edition consists of fewer sections and sharing the days edition is more difficult.



French fashion magazine Self Service makes a surprise appearance. I say surprise not because it isn’t worth inclusion, but because it’s been around for some time and as far as I’m aware hasn’t done anything particularly new in the past year. But it’s good to see it again – great typography.



And lastly, Tim Moore’s Letter to Jane app. A couple of years ago this exhibition included the then all-new Wired app; last year Flipboard won the interactive category. It’s good to see LtJ and The Guardian representing the latest iPad editorial developments.

As ever, the exhibition as a whole works like all ‘best-of’ lists. You’ll argue with what’s there and question things that are missing, and you’ll have the ‘how can you compare that dress with this wind-powered animated screen’ conversation along the way. It’s a highly subjective set of exhibits. But it’s always worth a look for that very reason.

(Disclosure: I was one of the people nominating work for the show).





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