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.

By now there must be few people who are unaware of the recent uproar surrounding the University of California’s rebranding effort. Seldom does the media take such an active interest in design, so it was disheartening that they got their reporting so very wrong. The outcome of that misreporting—fueled by an online petition and fanned by our very own design community—has set back the course of design and cheated the university out of a progressive new identity.

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