AIGA’s Get Out the Vote campaign invites designers to create nonpartisan posters and videos that inspire the American public to participate in the electoral process and vote in the 2012 general election.

Design for Democracy applies design tools to increase civic participation by making interactions between the U.S. government and its citizens clear.

Since 2000, Design for Democracy's ballot and election design project has worked to make voting easier and more accurate for all U.S. citizens.

In August 2012, AIGA and PepsiCo Nutrition Ventures convened at the School for Visual Arts in New York City for a two-day summit. Participants—including designers, community advocates, physicians and health specialists—focused on using creative methods to identify and address environmental and community factors that affect nutrition and promote chronic diseases.

If all leaders had been trained first as designers, their views would be richer, broader and more innovative.