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 past August, in-house creatives from Mary Kay, Fossil, FUNimation Entertainment and Cooper Aerobics sat down together to discuss what it takes to thrive in-house. What follows is an edited version of the panel discussion, part of a series of INitiative events organized by the AIGA Dallas Fort Worth chapter and The Creative Group.

What are some of the distinguishing characteristics between in-house designers—aka innies—and their independent design counterparts, outies?