Design may not save democracy but it can certainly help where needed. Good design communicates effectively and when a ballot design is confusing to the voter then polling accuracy goes down and democracy suffers.
The Ugly Past

The infamous butterfly ballot of the elections in 2000 brought ballot design to the forefront of American public discourse. In […]

Over at Empire they have a quiz that tests your typographic memory by identifying films from individual letterforms found on their posters.

I got a 22 out of 46, which sounds pretty bad, but it’s HARD… How did you do?
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Most people I know, myself included, pick a bottle of wine at the store by the design of the bottle and label. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this practice, in fact I think it’s rather fun.

Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV enlisted the help of graphic designer Strat Parrott to pick some bottles to taste. […]

Axel Peemoeller, a graphic designer and art director based in Hamburg, Germany, designed quite an innovative parking garage wayfinding system.

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