Building Community Power

Design for Democracy applies design to increase civic participation by bringing clarity in the interactions between the U.S. government and its citizens.

The Design for Democracy committee aims to support this project, in partnership with Nonprofit VOTE.

AIGA’s Get Out the Vote invites designers to create nonpartisan posters that inspire the American public to participate in the general and local elections.

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.

An online collection of posters by AIGA leaders across the nation representing Get Out the Vote 2016, the latest campaign by AIGA Design for Democracy. See the full exhibit and download your favorite posters at AIGA.org/vote.

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 gallery contains examples of ballots and other election materials that have evolved through the benefit of professional design guidance or guidelines while remaining grounded in relevant local legislative, budgetary and equipment-based constraints.

The following ballot and election design tools and resources may be useful to election officials, legislators, equipment providers, printers, designers and press.

At the height of the recession in 2009, the Chicago neighborhoods of Wicker Park and Bucktown wanted to attract new visitors. Firebelly created this high-impact print and digital campaign—including ads on public transit—that featured products from 100 local businesses that couldn’t be found anywhere else in the city.