Get Out the Vote Exhibition and Social

AIGA Richmond invites you to the opening exhibition of Get Out the Vote 2008 on Friday, October 24th at Savor Café in the Corrugated Box Building. The exhibition will open at 5:30 pm and kick-off Manchester United's Fourth Friday Artwalk in October.

Each election year, AIGA, the professional association for design, invites designers from across the United States to create nonpartisan posters that inspire the American public to participate in the electoral process and vote for a presidential candidate in the 2008 general election.

Get Out the Vote, an AIGA Design for Democracy initiative since the 2000 election, enables designers to engage in the public arena by contributing to a coordinated voter mobilization campaign. The 2008 poster campaign builds on the efforts made in 2004, when participants created more than 50,000 AIGA posters that were displayed in public places in communities across the nation and made available as online PDFs for anyone to download, print and post independently. This year, 24 posters were selected from the hundreds of submissions to be printed and distributed nationally. These select posters will be on display through November.

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.

So before heading to the polls to vote, join us for a celebration of design and democracy. The exhibition is, of course, open to the public. Food and drink from Savor (including their Taco Night special) will be available during the event.

Sam Shelton Explains Get out the Vote

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