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. 

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.

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. Click on any thumbnail image to print out a poster, watch a video, learn more about each submission and share your favorites. If you have questions related to Get Out the Vote, please contact us.

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June 9, 2012,  9am -

Art Center College of Design - Hillside Campus 
1700 Lida St. 
Pasadena, CA 91103 
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The world needs creative problem solvers more than ever, and it’s time we explore the full potential of design as a force for positive change. TEDxArtCenterCollegeOfDesign is a student-organized TED event that brings you leaders in design, science, activism and education to share their compelling personal journeys toward designing a better future.

Our theme, “Design a _______ for social impact” is a call to action that aims to inspire the communicators and innovative thinkers of tomorrow. On June 9th, immerse yourself in a captivating and collaborative environment at Art Center’s iconic Hillside Campus, and find out how you will fill in the blank.

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DAVID MAYES, AIGA LA FELLOW 

Mayes studied printing at Los Angeles Job Corps and Los Angeles Trade Technical College. This lead to working as a cameraman and stripper at Copy Spot in Santa Monica. Westside Print Works was the place where he worked with many of the designers he still knows and collaborates with today. After three years with Embrey Press in West L.A. he found Typecraft Lithography (later Typecraft Wood & Jones) in 1999 and the connection to the design community and his support for AIGA blossomed.

Mayes’ career in the printing industry has spanned 30 years, working in all phases of printing from pre-press to management to sales. Mayes has been participating with AIGA Los Angeles since 1997 and served on the AIGA-LA Board since 2002 on the Development, Finance, and Education Committees. Having a deep affection for the creative process with special appreciation for the collaboration between printer and designer, Mayes is inspired by the process of taking ideas conceived in an artist’s imagination and delivering a tangible product with those colors, textures and ideas brought to life.

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Heralding the newly established Visionary Award along with the AIGA Los Angeles 2012 Fellow Award.

Recognize and socialize with this year’s Fellow Award recipients, Agustin Garza and David Mayes and our new Visionary Award recipients lynda.com founders, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin.

Meet, greet and speak with L.A. design leaders, visionaries and influencers as well the current and past Fellows.

Thursday, June 21st
7:00 - 9:30pm
Royal T
8910 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232

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May 14, 2012 at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, AIGA LA and Adobe sponsored a live tutorial of one of Adobe’s newest pieces of software: Muse. Adobe Muse can be used for a lot of different capacities such as Wire Frames, website creation, hosting, and publishing. It is the first program where you can build a website and not even code a thing. Adobe updates will be more frequent then other Adobe Products and will evolve as time goes by.

Functions of Adobe Muse:

• Wire Frames
• Website Building
• Hosting
• Publishing
• Light Boxes
• Hierarchy of Pages
• Different Modes to View Pages

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The Nominations Committee of AIGA Los Angeles is pleased to recommend for your consideration the following slate of candidates to join the 2012-2013 Board of Directors. If elected, each nominee will serve a two-year term. The slate is afforded an up or down vote, as a whole. A two-third majority is required for election. Votes not returned by the membership will be cast toward “approved”. All current AIGA members are invited to vote via Eventbrite no later than Friday, June 1, 2012.

For President:
Noreen Morioka

For Vice President:
Jason Adam

For Secretary/Treasurer:
Rob Valerio

For Member at Large:
Jodie Shotwell
Jose Caballer
Kaz Brecher
Andrew Gibbs
Kevin Kelley
Chris Do
Juan Pablo Bedoya

To vote, click on Eventbrite link here.

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Monday, June 4, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PT)
Los Angeles, CA

Oishii Creative
717 N. Highland Ave, Ste 18 
Los Angeles, CA 90038 (show map)

Tickets: Free!

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6 - 10pm

The CSULB Graphic Design Class of 2012 invite you to join us for our Senior BFA Show - 20 FOLD, taking place in Downtown Long Beach. Opening night is Thursday, May 24th - continuing on Friday, May 25th and Saturday, May 26th. As a group of 20 designers, we all have unique visions and ideas that are multiplied 20 fold when we come together as a whole. This exhibition celebrates the work of the individual and the integrated efforts that conceive big ideas.

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PLEASE NOTE:
Due to a scheduling conflict, the date of the Professional Series: The Experience of In-House Design has been changed to Thursday, June 7, 2012 at Mosaic, 826 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles.

REGISTER NOW (via Eventbrite)

June 7th, 6:30 - 9pm

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CLIENT

Nutre Hogar, NGOPROJECT TITLEAlimentando el Futuro (Feeding the Future)DURATIONPhase 1: March 2010 - May 2011
Phase 2: Ongoing 2012TEAM

Designer: Marlene Franco

Instructors and advisors: Chad Cameron, Amy Franceschini, David Hake, Phil Hamlett, Michael Kilgore and Michael Sainato 

DESCRIPTION

Challenge

Malnutrition is an alarming problem in Panama that not only affects those who suffer from it, but it also affects the development and well-being of the country at large. 

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Last Saturday, I spent the evening at the Los Angeles A+D (Architecture and Design) Museum next to LACMA to catch the opening reception of EMERGE, an exhibition featuring the work of Graphic Design students and American Institute of Graphic Design members (AIGA) from the Greater Los Angeles area. Pieces by students from institutions such as Art Center College of Design, Cal Poly Pomona, California State University Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Otis College of Art and Design, UCLA Extension, University of Southern California, and our very own Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising were showcased in this collection of work from emerging designers.

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It is a rare opportunity to get meet well-known designers so I jumped at the chance when I found out that Debbie Millman on Mother’s Day. I have met her previously, at an another AIGA LA event last year, however, this time it was limited to only 12 lucky folks. Debbie Millman brought some great insight to the discussion. I found her very inspiring after being able to listen to the discussion and I have always enjoyed listening to her Design Matters.

Some Tips from Debbie Millman:

1. Always have a contract no matter who it is you are working for if consulting on design work
2. Have a deposit of payment before starting work and a payment at delivery
3. Get a good lawyer for contracts and copywriting

As much as Debbie gave us great advice, we got to learn more about her. She always talked about things that is important her meaning she lived through it at some point in her career and/or life.

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May 23rd, 6:30 - 9pm

Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462
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Our panel on In-House Design aims to shed light on how designers within organizations should shape the perception of the design function as strategic advisor to the company leadership, its brands and its innovation ambitions. Participants should walk away from the conversation with the ideas and means with which to further integrate the in-house function to the overall business it serves.

The Professional Series is a program of conversations about today’s business of design. Professionals and entrepreneurs from a range of design enterprises will gather to discuss how each are growing their businesses through financial modeling, business development, recruitment and retention, innovation practices and, above all, great design.

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