In an effort to address issues of sustainability, economics and reach, AIGA announced that this year's design annual, 365: AIGA Year in Design 30, has just been published in a digital edition.
The release of this annual publication chronicling the best in communication and book design is timed to coincide with the relaunch of the AIGA Design Archives, a website featuring more than 20,000 examples of design excellence dating back to 1924.
New York- and Portland, Oregon-based designers Omnivore designed 365: AIGA Year in Design 30 as an interactive PDF, cataloguing the winning entries from AIGA's 2009 competitions and including multiple images, jurors' comments, designers' statements and credits.
Each selection in the publication links directly to its respective entry in the AIGA Design Archives to encourage deeper exploration and discovery.
"We felt that an investment in improving the Design Archives-one of the richest online resources available to practitioners and appreciators of great design worldwide-would have a more significant impact on the design community," said Richard Grefe, AIGA executive director.
"The decision to not print an annual was driven partly by economic factors, but this way more people will now see the work in digital form than would have ever seen it in print."