Election Day Advent Calendar 🔗

In 2006, my co-conspirator Ben Helphand and I, calling ourselves “Gerrymander” (slogan: Make Small Plans), conceived, designed (with help from Andrew Seay), produced, printed, and sold the Election Day Advent Calendar. Like a regular Advent calendar counts down the days ‘til Christmas, our political-nerd take on it counted down the days leading up to the 2006 midterm election. You opened a door each day and it would reveal a quote or fact about our democracy. This was an actual 11"×17", full-color, printed, die-cut calendar. We sold a fair number, more or less broke even, and declared it a success from our modest expectations. With design help from Melissa Dean, we repeated the effort in with a new calendar for the 2008 election.