Graphic designers get out the vote

The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is backing a Get Out the Vote effort that involves some of the best graphic designers around:

AIGA has announced that 16 nationally recognized designers have joined the grassroots effort to encourage voter turnout in its 2008 Get Out the Vote (GOTV) awareness campaign. Some of the most acclaimed contemporary designers, AIGA Medalists Gail Anderson, Bart Crosby, Steff Geissbuhler, Ellen Lupton and Rick Valicenti, are joining the more than 200 designers from across the country who have created posters, digital videos and motion graphics to be distributed nationwide this summer. This effort to motivate civic participation through effective design is part of the AIGA Design for Democracy initiative, which is now working with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to redesign the nation’s elections process.

(From Graphic Design USA magazine)