AIGA asked the design community to inspire people to Get Out the Vote. Below are just three samples…To view all the entries, click here.

Don’t be a sheep – Sean Adams

Stick By Your Right – Heather Oesterling

A Simple Addition To Your Morning Routine – GOTV2016 – Natalia Warren

Now go and exercise your right to vote, if you have it.

With Labor Day behind us and September in full swing, the next thing to look forward to is fall with its crisp air and smell of falling leaves. While the weather outside might feel anything but autumn, retailers are trying to cash in on an ever growing fall tradition as early as possible … pumpkin spice anything.

According to Forbes the “Pumpkin Spice Economy” generates approximately $500 Million sales a season, with pumpkin flavored items having increased by 21% since 2012. Starbucks launched it’s iconic Pumpkin Spice Latte back in 2003 and these days we have seen anything from pumpkin spiced yogurt to cereal, even beer as early as August.

So if pumpkin spice is your cup of joe – savor the flavor during the brief time we get to enjoy this favorite season of the year, soon there will be holiday jingles playing throughout stores beckoning for your purchasing power.

Image by StarbucksNews via Twitter

This weekends we went to New York City to see artist Duke Riley’s largest public art project to date – Fly By Night. Presented by the nonprofit arts organization Creative Time at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a massive flock of 2,000 pigeons (fitted with tiny LED lights) illuminated the night sky above the East River, as Riley paid tribute to the largely forgotten culture of pigeon keeping.

Images via Byron Smith for The New York Times (Night Sky) & Creative Time (Birds)

Image via New York Times / Mount Stuart

Earlier this month it was announced that a rare First Folio of Shakespeare’s works was discovered at Mount Stuart on the Scottish Isle of Bute.

Initially historian Emma Smith, a professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, was skeptical of the discovery, especially in the year that marks the 400th anniversary of the great bard’s death.

Having had a chance to examine and authenticate the Bute Folio, which is bound in three separate volumes, Emma Smith told the BBC that “It’s a book we most likely now see … in a glass case, and one of the things that this copy … shows us is a time when people just really used this book, they enjoyed it, they scribbled on it, they spilt their wine on it, their pet cats jumped on it.”

The First Folio, which contains thirty six of Shakespeare’s plays, was published in 1623 and included several plays previously unpublished works, among them Macbeth, The Tempest and As You Like It.

Only 234 copies are known to exist and, while it is not for sale at the time, this copy is estimated to be worth $3.7 to $4.6 million.

A recent survey of 12,000 parents in 10 countries, conducted by detergent brands OMO and Persil, found that one-third of kids between the ages of five and 12, spend less than 30 minutes outside each day.

To make a point, the detergent brand Persil shot a documentary style film inside Indiana’s Wabash Maximum Security Prison as part of its “Dirt Is Good” themed campaign, presenting the concerning fact that US prisoners get more time outside than the average child in a rather abstract way.

The ‘Free the Kids’ campaign is brought to you by Dirt is Good, an initiative to get kids spending more time outside. Find out about the benefits of outdoor play for kids here: dirtisgood.com.