Some awards impress designers and some impress clients, but few impress both like the Black Book AR100. Every year, the AR100’s panel of award-winning designers picks 100 annual reports from around the world that raise the bar for corporate communications.

This year, four of the 100 are Methodologie reports: BRE Properties’ 2007 Annual Report (Why/Y), The Coca-Cola Company’s 2007 Annual Review (The Language of Refreshment), Itron’s 2007 Annual Report, and the Semiconductor Industry Association’s 2008 report (What if We Close Our Doors on the World’s Best and Brightest?). Itron’s report also made the AR100’s list of Top Ten Photography.

(Due to a publishing error, the report pictured for The Coca-Cola Company is in fact the 2007 report for Coca-Cola Enterprises, produced by Corporate Reports Inc. The Black Book confirmed the winning report was The Coca-Cola Company’s. See images of the winning report here.)