Award Announcement
UDA Annual Int’l Design Competition 2020
All participants can submit their best Commercial Posters for the client, Experimental Posters for the exploration, and Environmental Awareness Posters for the earth.
Posters communicate its message and show its narrative story and defined as a painting or an illustration art in the 19th and 20th centuries that it remains in our culture as a historical artifact. In the UDA’s prestigious annual design competition, all participants will show their best posters, and UDA will preserve their posters as the historical artifacts.
Winners: Designers
COMMERCIAL POSTERS
| Award | Project | Designer | Job Title | Company | Client | Country |
| Grand | About people | Patrycja Longawa | Graphic Designer | Contemporary Art Gallery in Przemyśl | Poland | |
| Gold | Semana de la Investigacion | Luis Antonio Rivera Rodriguez | Creative Director | Monokromatic | Escuela Superior de Ciencias y Humanidades Puebla | Mexico |
| Silver | Explore EMU Art & Design | Andrew Maniotes | Professor | Eastern Michigan School of Art & Design | Eastern Michigan School of Art & Design | USA |
| Silver | Around Jozef Elsner | Patrycja Longawa | Graphic Designer | Stowarzyszenie im. ludwiga van beethovena | Poland | |
| Bronze | Book Promo | Albert Young Choi | Creative Director | YoungGamm | Book Lab | Korea |
| Bronze | 2019/2020 Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series | Kelly Salchow MacArthur | Professor | MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design | Michigan State University | USA |
EXPERIMENTAL POSTERS
| Award | Project | Designer | Job Title | Company | Country |
| Grand | Heritage Hope Harmony | Keith Kitz | Designer/Creative Director | Keith Kitz Design | USA |
| Gold | Social Sharks | Ivan Kashlakov | Web Designer | eDesign Interactive | Bulgaria |
| Gold | Hyperbolic World | Kelly Salchow MacArthur | Elevate Design | Michigan State University | USA |
| Silver | Ward No. 6 | Keith Kitz | Designer/Creative Director | Keith Kitz Design | USA |
| Silver | Sympathy and help | Patrycja Longawa | Graphic designer | Poland | |
| Bronze | Facts Matter | Chris Corneal | Associate Professor | Michigan State University | USA |
| Bronze | Hope Soon | Dannell MacIlwraith | Creative Director | Dannell Designs, LLC | USA |
| Bronze | SAA-2020 Recruitment Poster | Ping Xu | Associate Professor of Graphic Design | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | USA |
ENVIRONMENTAL POSTERS
| Award | Project | Designer | Job Title | Company | Country |
| Grand | Water is Life | Patrycja Longawa | Graphic designer | Poland | |
| Gold | Our Regret | Albert Young Choi | Creative Director | YoungGamm | Korea |
| Gold | Hazardous Environment | Michael Bairaktaris | Creative Director | Freelancer | Greece |
| Silver | bike vs car | Agnieszka Dajczak | lecturer | self work | Poland |
| Silver | I am Immortal; I’m Immoral | Keith Kitz | Designer/Creative Director | Keith Kitz Design | USA |
| Bronze | In Case of | Michael Bairaktaris | Creative Director | Freelancer | Greece |
| Bronze | Biofilia | Naandeyé García | Creative Director | Naandeyeah | Mexico |
| Bronze | Desertification of a Tree | Wesam Mazhar Haddad | Creative Director | Wesam Mazhar Haddad | USA |
Winners: Students
| Award | Project | Student | Instructor | School | Country |
| Grand | AIGA Competition Poster | Alexis Flores | Ping Xu | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | USA |
| Gold | Na corrente do Rio Neiva (In Neiva’s River stream) | Sara Fernandes | Jorge Brandão Pereira | School of Design – Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave | Portugal |
| Gold | Somos o que comemos (We are what we eat) | Vitória Rodrigues | Jorge Brandão Pereira | School of Design – Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave | Portugal |
| Silver | In a gentle way, you can shake the world! | Andreas Panayi | Angelos Panayides | Cyprus University of Technology | Cyprus |
| Silver | Guarda-rios | Joana Cardoso | Jorge Brandão Pereira | School of Design – Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave | Portugal |
| Silver | “Figures of Speech” | Jordan Brooks | Kelly Salchow MacArthur | Michigan State University | USA |
| Bronze | Lontra (Otter) | Bárbara Coelho | Jorge Brandão Pereira | School of Design – Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave | Portugal |
| Bronze | Life of Perpetual Anxiety | Karley Adrion | Seiji Ikeda | Univeristy of Texas at Arlington | USA |
| Bronze | Plogging | Liliana Freitas | Jorge Brandão Pereira | School of Design – Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave | Portugal |
| Bronze | Imagination | Luis Tavares | Jorge Brandão Pereira | School of Design – Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave | Portugal |
| Bronze | My visuals | Pedro Rodrigues | Jorge Brandão Pereira | School of Design – Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave | Portugal |
| Bronze | Self promotion | Sofia Campos | Jorge Brandão Pereira | School of Design – Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave | Portugal |
| Bronze | Wear a Mask | Xuan Zhang | Ben Dolezal | University of Texas at Arlington | USA |
Copyright: All matters regarding the copyright of the Entry will be the responsibility of the entrant. All designs will become the Collection of United Designs Alliance. The United Designs Alliance reserves the right to use all information provided by the entrants, as well as the right to publish, exhibit or reproduce all designs entered for the competition
