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SSL 2025 Awards

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Signs, Systems, and Letterform Marks (SSL)

UDA Annual Int’l Design Competition 2025



Signs are more than just visual cues; they represent the distilled essence of human thought made visible. These elemental forms convey complex ideas with clarity and immediacy. Systems enhance this expression by uniting diverse signs into coherent visual families that embody order, logic, and meaning. Letterform marks, carefully crafted from type, encapsulate identity and intention, presenting singular concepts with precision and power.

The graphic designer acts as a visual composer, shaping, refining, and orchestrating these elements to achieve clarity, resonance, and beauty. In their hands, form transforms into language.

Signs, Systems, and Letterform marks significantly influence our behaviors, beliefs, and institutions. They warn of danger, guide our movements, inform our choices, and reflect the spirit of organizations. Amidst our vast diversity—religious, political, social, and cultural—these visual languages possess the unique potential to unify us. They transcend spoken language, bridging gaps through shared understanding.

Design students and professionals share the responsibility and privilege of evolving this visual lexicon. By reimagining the past and inventing the future, they contribute to a universal language that transcends boundaries and invites us into a shared understanding.


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Copyright: All matters regarding the copyright of the Entry will be the entrant’s responsibility. 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 and publish, exhibit, or reproduce all designs entered for the competition.