AIGA Eye on Design (full site)

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In June 2024, AIGA announced on Instagram that they had discontinued the AIGA Eye on Design internet publication, and would archive the 100 most accessed articles. 

Vitorio Miliano contacted Archive Team as a last resort to have the full site archived. You can access it at this link.

This data will require software to open. Please see these instructions by Vitorio Miliano.

Hi! Sure, here's some notes on downloading and viewing, and contacting Archive Team for anything else.

Downloading:

You can see the downloads here: https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/domain/eyeondesign.aiga.org(yes, that's really the domain).

The scrape happened in two chunks, one for all the pages and outbound links, and one for the site's media folder.

If you click on each one of those links, you'll get a list of WARC.GZ files, which are compressed web archives. Each one is 5GB in size. The left column is the direct download link.

Viewing:

A WARC.GZ file isn't directly human-readable, you can't open it in a browser and just see the pages; they're meant for preservation, so you need a special app. The main free one today is ReplayWeb.page, available at https://replayweb.page/ as both a site and an app.

If you download one of those WARC.GZ files, and open it through the ReplayWeb.page site, you'll be able to see all the pages that were captured and saved in that particular WARC.GZ file, and view them again. Unfortunately, as these are 5GB files, your browser might also run out of RAM.

So, I'd suggest also downloading the ReplayWeb.page desktop app and keeping that as an option: https://replayweb.page/docs/user-guide/offline-use/#standalone-desktop-app . There's one caveat: it doesn't support printing. You can still take screenshots, though. Under the View menu, click "Toggle Developer Tools", then in the panel that opened click ⋮, click "Run command", and type "screenshot" to see the options. It'll save as a PNG.

Whether you're using the site or the app, you're only seeing whatever's in each individual WARC.GZ file. A captured page might span multiple WARC.GZ files, so it might not look right when you try to view it. My understanding is there are tools to convert the WARC.GZ files to other formats which might support this better, but I haven't used them.