It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of my latest project, Billboard for the People: A Public Celebration of Progress. Deroy Peraza, over at Hyperakt Design Group had the brilliant idea of channeling all of this positive energy surrounding the election of Barack Obama into a grassroots effort to congratulate our president elect with a massive billboard in New York City.

The idea is pretty simple…

Step 1: We all donate some money over at BillboardForThePeople.com. If you are feeling inspired and generous, and can toss in some serious coin, fantastic! However, even if it’s just a few dollars, every little bit counts.

Step 2: We tell all of our friends about this initiative, and hopefully raise $25,000 by December 15th… Be sure to Digg it, join on FriendConnect and Facebook, etc, to help spread the word.

Step 3: We install a beautiful congratulatory billboard in Manhattan designed by Deroy Peraza, and the good folks over at Hyperakt, just in time for Obama’s inauguration, and welcome him into the White House with style.

After spending election night cavorting through Harlem with thousands of elated voters all smiling and hugging each other, and for once, all feeling like we are on the same page, I was instantly on board for developing the Billboard for the People website when Hyperakt came to me with the project idea.

Obama ran a campaign completely funded by the people, showing us that we do have the power to act collectively and inspire change in American politics. Let’s continue the tradition with this grassroots effort to congratulate Obama for his historic victory. If we all pitch in, we can totally make this happen, and continue to spread Obama’s message of hope and change.

Visit BillboardForThePeople.com, donate whatever you can, and be sure to tell of your friends about this. If we raise more than enough money to put a billboard up in Manhattan, then we can put more billboards up in other cities as well.