Some words are worth more points

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.

Ziba not only planned the 2010 IDSA annual conference—from concept and visual identity to publicity and speaker selection—but also helped to close generational gaps and return the event to relevance.

Design can be a foreign concept to young students in rural Illinois. The goal of these workshops was to introduce design concepts and discuss employment opportunities to area middle school students. Following a presentation about design principles, the students were asked to put these principles to use, thinking about visual metaphors and creating engaging copy.