About this item
This Is What Democracy Looked Like, the first illustrated history of printed ballot design, illuminates the noble but often flawed process at the heart of our democracy. An exploration and celebration of US ballots from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this visual history reveals unregulated, outlandish, and, at times, absurd designs that reflect the explosive growth and changing face of the voting public. The ballots offer insight into a pivotal time in American history - a period of tectonic shifts in the electoral system - fraught with electoral fraud, disenfranchisement, scams, and skullduggery, as parties printed their own tickets and voters risked their lives going to the polls.
About the Author
Alicia Yin Cheng is a graphic designer and founding partner at MGMT. design. She has worked as a senior designer for Method, New York, and was the co-design director at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum. She has taught and served as a visiting critic at Yale University, Princeton University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons School of Design, University of the Arts, the Cooper Union School of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Alicia received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Yale University.
