Reflections upon the Obama campaign's design work? A crowdsourced fundraising effort? Total techPres bait, but Obama campaign design director Scott Thomas is involved in an intriguing quest. Wanting to chronicle the art and design that both was created by the Obama for America campaign and developed organically by supporters, but to put out a book with considerable production values, Thomas decided to avoid traditional publisher, go DIY, and fundraise himself for the production of Designing Obama -- using Kickstarter, what Thomas calls an "Obama-like fundraising model."

The finished product is set to come in an 360-pages of hard-bound art and commentary.

Think few people would prepay $10 for a digital version, or $50 or more for a print version of a book they haven't seen yet? With 13 days to go, 883 backers have contributed $57,000 of the $65,000 target Thomas set for the first run of the book.

Our friends at SeeClickFix have some cool news to share today: The do-it-yourself civic platform is going multilingual. Citizens will soon be able to report non-emergency issues in their community to those accountable for the public space in 83 languages anywhere in the world using SeeClickFix on their PC or mobile phone. (And just in time for PdF Europe!)

It's like Chicago 10, but it got made a lot quicker. Remember how the Supreme Court ruled that California's Northern District court wasn't allowed to broadcast video footage from the Prop 8 trial taking place in San Francisco? Mashable has the story of a pair of filmmakers who have thought up a workaround. Using court transcripts, they're recreating the trial and posting it all to YouTube. In the interest of creating an unbiased record, they are reportedly using actors of equal physical attractiveness to portray each side. (No word on whether, in real life, the pro- and anti- same sex marriage forces involved in the trial are equally as good looking.)