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.

Jonah Lehrer wows the audience with this presentation on what science can learn by studying human creativity, and intrigues with comments such as, “We’re all sacs of water and protein, anyhow.” Using discoveries in modern cooking and music as examples he explains how what may initially be shocking gets assimilated into the mainstream as the mind finds patterns over time. Therefore, the best creations walk the line between breaking new ground and channeling the familiar.

What if those who can do, can't teach? FitzGerald asks if the qualifications we expect of design educators are really the best fit for design education.