Every four years since 2000, AIGA has mobilized communication designers across the country to Get Out the Vote through a nonpartisan civic engagement campaign. Posters are available free to the public at AIGA.org/vote for distribution in public spaces or on social media (#AIGAvote and #GetOutTheVote). This online exhibition complements a series of shows nationwide, organized in conjunction with the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention (Cleveland/Philadelphia, July 2016), AIGA Design Conference (Las Vegas, October 2016), and AIGA chapters in other cities. The campaign is part of Design for Democracy, an AIGA initiative—co-chaired by Rich Hollant—to increase civic participation by making interactions between the U.S. government and its citizens more understandable, efficient, and trustworthy.

Personal statement about the design: I collect all kinds of objects, ideas, and arcane bits of information. In this poster, I hoped to inspire folks to vote by sharing some things I find awesome about our country from the perspective of an immigrant who wasn’t born with the right to vote or to be heard. In this poster, I offer up my appreciation of American landscapes as discovered through my collection of 1960s Paint By Numbers, my love of American folk music and the rich culture of taking pride in our work and land as expressed by Woody Guthrie, and the immense opportunity I see embedded in the consequential act of voting for our beliefs. We live in a country rich with influence—indeed, who we are is predicated on our commitment to look, reflect, evolve, and voice our convictions. I believe the most influential tool we have at our disposal is the vote. Use it freely.