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UDA Annual 2023

Spirit.

A Spirit of Borderless Design Collaboration

The United Designs Alliance organization members are committed to adopting, collaborating, creating, impacting, and influencing creativity, intellectual inquiry, and cultural engagement.

As colleagues in the design discipline, we learn from each other and share our thoughts to advance design education. This borderless design collaboration will assist future practitioners in enhancing our world.


United. Shares Ideas and Experiences.

The United Designs Alliance encourages service and contributions to the many facets of society through our design and creative practice. Daily life encounters enable us to build a library of thoughts. This reserve assists each generation in the communication of ideas through design.

The Design experience is heightened by being multicultural and multidisciplinary, which elevates ideas and materials, creates an awareness of new processes, and refines its management and delivery.

We look forward to continuing to share ideas and design experiences in 2024.



CONTENTS

003 INTRODUCTION
006 ABOUT UDA
008 2024 UDA SCHEDULE
010 NEW MEMBERS
038 UDA MEMBERS DIRECTORY

OUR DISCIPLINE NOW
044 INTRODUCTION
046 ROBERT HOWER
050 ZHAO ZHIYONG
054 JORGE PEREIRA
058 SARAH MEYER
062 YAO XUPENG
066 ALBERT YOUNG CHOI 

UDA MEDALLIONS
070 INTRODUCTION
072 JOHN DREW
088 Kent Ieong

INT’L DESIGN COMPETITION
SIGNS, SYSTEMS, AND LETTERFORM MARKS
098 HONORARY JURORS
100 AWARDS TO DESIGNERS
108 AWARDS TO STUDENTS

INT’L DESIGN COMPETITION
POSTER DESIGN
132 HONORARY JURORS
134 COMMERCIAL POSTERS
143 EXPERIMENTAL POSTERS
156 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS POSTERS
164 AWARDS TO STUDENTS

INT’L DESIGN COMPETITION
IDEA DESIGN
180 HONORARY JURORS
188 AWARDS TO DESIGNERS
200 AWARDS TO STUDENTS

UDA WEBINAR
210 INTRODUCTION
212 VOL 1. ALAN COLVIN (USA)
214 VOL 2. YAO XUPENG (CHINA)
216 VOL 3. JOHN DERRY (USA)
218 VOL 4. MICHAEL BERGER (USA)
220 VOL 5. YOUNG AE KIM (USA)
222 VOL 6. ZEXUAN ZENG (GERMANY)

AIRE SEMINARS
224 INTRODUCTION
226 PRESENTATIONS

UDA SHOWCASE
234 INTRODUCTION
236 SHOWCASE

254 CREDIT



Credit

Creative Direction By Albert Young Choi 
Cover Photography By Robert Hower
Catalog Design By Uda Headquarters
Insert Photography By Albert Young Choi
Photography Location: Haenam, Korea
Introduction Copy By Robert Hower
Copy By Albert Young Choi
Typeface ‘Ac Young’ By Albert Young Choi


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