Video: Marcia Lausen
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Filmed on: October 24, 2008
About this
video
Marcia Lausen, author of Design for Democracy,
talks about the transformative effects that design can bring to
democracy, how the ballot issues of 2000 provided an opportunity for the
design community to step forward, and her own experience re-designing
Chicago’s butterfly ballot. She describes how the AIGA Design for
Democracy initiative has expanded its initial work in punch card design,
and how its resources, tools, guidelines and programs have enabled the
production of elections nationwide to be more accurate, efficient and
accessible.
Speaker bio
Marcia Lausen is the
director of Studio/lab, a multidisciplinary design consulting firm, as
well as a professor of graphic design and the director of the School of
Art at Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a
founding member of and adviser to the AIGA Design for Democracy
initiative, in addition to being a former national board member and
AIGA Chicago president. Lausen is the author and designer of Design for Democracy: Ballot and Election Design,
published in November 2007 by the University of Chicago Press and AIGA.
An essential tool for designers and election officials, lawmakers and
citizens, Design for Democracy harnesses the power of design to
increase voter confidence, promote government transparency and create an
informed—and empowered—electorate.