Call for Entries UDA Annual Int’l Design Competition 2023 Submit before Monday, May 8Award Announcement on Monday, June 26 Posters show its narrative story, defined as a painting or an illustration art in the 19th… Read More »Poster Design 2023
Every year, we invite honorary jurors who are the movers in the design disciplines. As we honor their design knowledge and experience without prejudice, they equally evaluate design competition entries worldwide. UDA honors and thank… Read More »Jurors 2023
The Art of Simplicity Alan Colvin Principal and Creative DirectorCue, Inc.USA Thursday, February 23, 2023, 9:00 am US Central Standard bTime Problem: ComplexityHow can we communicate effectively enough to stand apart in an overwhelmingly complex… Read More »UDA Webinar 2023 Vol. 1 of 6
Call for Abstracts UDA Biannual Int’l Design Research Journal Submit before Monday, March 27, 2023 The Design Behaviors journal aims to standardize research methodology and terminology related to the communication design discipline. The design originated… Read More »Design Behaviors 2023 F/W Vol 7
Call for Entry Signs, Systems, and Letterform Marks (SSL) UDA Annual Int’l Design Competition 2023 Submit before Monday, March 20Award Announcement on Monday, April 24 Signs communicate ideas through visual elements. Systems integrate many ideas… Read More »SSL 2023
Resiliency. The United Designs Alliance messages in the annual publication introductions over the last few years have reflected the international health and political conditions that have impacted our daily lives. As designers, students, and educators,… Read More »UDA Annual 2022
Executive Director Raleigh, USA I am a UX-driven visual designer with twenty years of combined design experience with enterprise and consumer brands. Most recently, I was a part of a cloud-based enterprise SaaS company that… Read More »David Oh
Executive Director Blacksburg, USA Meaghan A. Dee is both a practicing graphic designer and a design educator. She is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Creativity, Arts,… Read More »Meaghan Dee
UDA Medallion 2022 Graphic DesignerTurkey Melike Tascioglu Vaughan is a designer, artist, and academic with a doctorate in graphic design, working mostly on prints and books. She lives in Eskisehir, Turkey, where she teaches Bachelor,… Read More »Melike Tascioglu Vaughan
UDA Medallion 2022 Creative Director, CUE, INC.USA Alan has worked with some of the best talents in the world, gaining experience and insight in virtually all creative disciplines. Associates have been amongst the most accomplished… Read More »Alan Colvin
UDA Medallion 2022 Graphic DesignerUSA Brenda McManus is a designer, author, and educator based in NYC. A founding partner of the award-winning studio BRED, the graphic design studio, research, and design education lab of Brenda… Read More »Brenda McManus
Design is not just how we create visuals, objects, or concepts, but importantly, the design is closely related to society, culture, and people. We experience the power of design every day: design influences us by… Read More »Our Discipline Now 2023
Invited International ExhibitionUDA Members Only UDA officially invites UDA members to show their outstanding creativity in our annual international exhibition, UDA Showcase. In this exhibition, you can discover UDA members’ design philosophy and find a… Read More »2022 UDA Showcase
UDA Medallion 2022 Graphic DesignerUSA Robert Grame is an educator and designer living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA). His creative practice balances industry-related activities with typographic experimentation. Robert has worked on various national design… Read More »Robert Grame
Award Announcement UDA Annual Int’l Design Competition 2022 Designers are thinkers, makers, and problem-solvers—explorers of possibility. We pursue opportunities through various methods, materials, technology, and media, guided by purpose and function while implementing formal dexterity.… Read More »Idea Design 2022 Awards
The ABCs of impacts, lessons learned, and unexpected discoveries of collaboration Brenda McManus Associate Professor and Chair at Pace University–NYC, USA Monday, November 21, 2022, 10 AM (EST) “Tell me, and I forget, teach me,… Read More »UDA Webinar 2022 Vol. 6 of 6
UDA conducts AIRE (Applied Integrated Research) seminars to make aware that design is a purposeful creative expression of humanity and an applied form of utilization and distinction through extensive design-centered multidiscipline studies. Rhetoric is a… Read More »2022 AIRE
Across the Board: Visual Storytelling for Different Outputs Raquel Costa An artist and illustrator from Portugal Wednesday, October 27, 2022, 9:00 AM GMT (Portugal) Visual communication is at the heart of both design and illustration. Our experience tells… Read More »UDA Webinar 2022 Vol. 5 of 6
My East Lin Shaobin Creative Director, China Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 10:00 AM China For a long time, in design, we have always carried out diversified service designs according to the brand’s needs. As a… Read More »UDA Webinar 2022 Vol. 4 of 6
Call for Entry UDA Annual Int’l Design Competition 2022 Submit before Monday, October 17Award Announcement on Monday, November 28 Designers are also Makers. You can explore materials and processes to find an appropriate solution for… Read More »Idea Design 2022