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.

This collection of sample ballots highlights common ballot design challenges and AIGA Design for Democracy's solutions.

Emily Ruth Cohen, consultant to creative professionals, gets to the root of project-related relationship and communication challenges facing so many corporate marketing and in-house design teams. Too often we blame the project brief, she says, when the real problem is a lack of attention and focus.