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.

Get Out the Vote, an AIGA Design for Democracy initiative, enables designers to engage in the public arena by contributing to a coordinated voter mobilization campaign. By motivating eligible citizens to register and turn out on election day, Get Out the Vote fulfills an ongoing AIGA objective of demonstrating the value of design to the public, public officials and business by providing a clear call to action for an activity that is important to everyone.

In coordination with the national initiative, we will be holding a poster exhibition, showing the posters submitted by members of AIGA Idaho at the Downtown Flying M location through the month of June. The deadline to submit artwork is July 1st.

Get Out the Vote 2008 poster design by Jennie Myers

How to participate

AIGA members are encouraged to submit designs by July 1, 2012. The ability to submit a design is a benefit of AIGA membership. To get started, download the design brief and templates. Then create your poster or video and return to this page to log in and submit your entry on aiga.org. Important: if you want you poster or video displayed in the AIGA Idaho exhibition, you must also email it to info@aigaidaho.org.

All posters are available in PDF format for you to download, print and hang in your town, and we encourage you to share video and poster entries with your friends, colleagues and social networks. If you have questions related to Get Out the Vote, please contact us.