For these reasons and many more, please vote if you haven’t already! 

Not sure if you’re going to vote? Then check out 30 Reasons, a Tumblr that is featuring 30 designers over 30 days with 30 compelling reasons to re-elect President Obama. Still not sure? Then find out What the fuck has Obama done so far? Already planning on voting for Romney? Then you should check out these sites because they’re both great examples of political design (and they might also change your mind). 

Atomic Overlook by Clay Lipsky

Lipsky on his work:

I was raised during the Cold War, when the threat of nuclear war loomed between two superpowers. The dramatized depictions in TV and film of such an apocalyptic demise both intrigued and scared me as a child. Yet the actual historic record of the atomic age was full of antiquated black and white images that seemed dated and a world away. This series recontextualizes a legacy of atomic tests in order to keep the reality of our post-atomic era fresh and omnipresent. It also speaks to the current state of the world and the voyeuristic culture that we live in. Imagine if the advent of the atomic era occurred during today’s information age. Tourists would gather to view the bomb tests, at the “safe” distances used in the 1950’s, and share the resulting cell phone photos online. Broadcast media would regurgitate such visual fodder ad nauseum, bringing new levels of desensitization. The threat of atomic weapons is as great as ever, but it is a hidden specter. Nuclear proliferation has gained even more obscurity through the “rogue” factions that can now possess them. Meanwhile America’s stockpile of weapons continues to be modernize and will probably never cease to exist. I can only hope that mankind will never again suffer the wrath of such a destructive force, but it is clear that the world would not hesitate to watch.

Just in time for the current election season, The Library Of Congress has published Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art, a fantastic collection of 100 ready-to-frame political campaign posters from the annals of American history. 

The Human Project by Jean-Yves Lemoigne

Lemoigne on his work:

Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individuality on the one hand and conformity on the other. A society with 6 billion people is a society standardized to meet the needs of each individual: work, leisure, transportation… In this standardized society, man himself becomes standardized, anonymous. Man is an elementary particle in the global mass.

The Zentai suit fits perfectly with this vision of man as an elementary particle. It makes any individual as uniform as possible. We stop distinguishing between faces, races and genders. I seek the greatest possible contrast between these smooth characters and the rich variety of textures, vegetable and mineral, that nature has to offer.