Marcia Lausen, Design for Democracy
11:30 am, networking. 12:00 speaker. Book signing to follow.
With a hot political season on its way, AIGA Toledo and the Advertising Club of Toledo have joined forces to provide an inspirational design luncheon featuring author of Design for Democracy, Marcia Lausen.
Marcia is an outspoken advocate for the value of design in corporate, consumer, and government communications. She has served on the local and national boards of AIGA and she co-founded the election design initiative of Design for Democracy: a strategic program of AIGA that seeks to improve the quality and clarity of government communications. Her recently completed book Design for Democracy: Ballot + Election Design was published by the University of Chicago Press.
Marcia Lausen is founder of the Chicago office of Studio/lab and Director of the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Marcia received her MFA in graphic design from Yale University in 1985 and her BFA in graphic design from Indiana University in 1981. She was named a Fast Company Master of Design in 2004 for her work in election design.
To register
Send an email to director@adclubtoledo.org or call Patty at 419.866.4199. Please indicate if you are a member of AIGA Toledo (and/or AdClub; nonmembers also welcome!) and whether you would like to request a vegetarian meal. Register by noon on Sept. 2.
$20 Members. $25 Nonmembers. $15 Students.
Design for Democracy will be on sale at the event for $45, but if you pre-order a book with your registration, it's only $40 in advance.
For more information, please contact Jenn Stucker.
Co-hosted with the Toledo AdClub.
"An elegant examination of how to improve the utility of our nation’s varied– and, in some cases, shockingly bad– voter materials... A refreshing use of aesthetics for a common good...” -Rolf Ebeling, Newsweek
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Comments (2)
Bad election design affects us close to home. In the spring 2008 absentee ballots from 921 Lucas County voters weren't counted... One envelope clearly stated "Do Not Bend" but the 2nd envelope in the packet was too small to hold the ballot without bending it; therefore causing much voter confusion... Read this article "921 primary votes tossed in mail flub" in the Blade: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080511/NEWS33/805110314 Since then, the envelope sizes have been redesigned and hopefully the process will be easier for voters. Read the article "Election Board Improves Absentee Voting Procedures" here: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/NEWS09/808200399&SearchID=73328136328014
Posted by: amyfidler on August 27, 2008
How design can save democracy: a fantastically simple interactive demonstration of better ballot design created for the New York Times by AIGA's Ric Grefé and Jessica Friedman Hewitt. View this online: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/25/opinion/20080825-ballot.html
Posted by: amyfidler on August 27, 2008
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