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.

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 is an international competition held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for interdisciplinary student/faculty teams to design and build solar-powered, energy-efficient homes. Team Living Light of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was among the few selected to compete.

This high school design studio teaches students to use the creative process as a problem-solving method and develop smart communication solutions that better their communities. The students work on projects in teams, with support and guidance from a professional design mentor.