Please check the detailed information below for joining an international design competition in South Korea. If you are confident about your work, you are welcome to submit your projects to UDA, and let me know if you have any questions about your submission. To submit your zip file to UDA, you may email it to UDA directly and control the file size under 20 MB. When you email your submission to UDA, please copy the message to me so that UDA will charge your entries for free. If the file size exceeds 20 MB, you may send the zip file to UDA via wetransfer.com.
If sending your project via wetransfer.com, please
- send an email to UDA first to explain that you are my student and you will send your zip file of the project files to UDA for your submission right after your email.
- attach your entry form’s excel file in the email and copy (cc) the email to me when sending the email to UDA.
- ask UDA to confirm you after they receive the zip file of your submission.
UDA will download the zip file very soon, but I will follow up to urge them to download the submission file one on one before the expiration date of the wetransfer file.
Cheers,
Ping Xu
Submit before Monday, October 17, 2022
Award Announcement on Monday, November 28, 2022
http://uniteddesigns.org/idea-design-2022/
http://uniteddesigns.org/jurors-2022/
Please click the text link here to download the Entry Form. I have removed professional row and only contain the form for student entries. You can submit up to three works to UDA’s Idea Design 2022 competition for free as long as these works were created in my classes.
HONORARY JURORS
UDA invited nationally and internationally distinguished designers and educators as UDA Annual International Design Competitions jurors. Visit uniteddesigns.org to see our list of jurors.
IDEA DESIGN LAYOUT PREPARATION
All design projects must layout following the provided layout sample. The layout must contain copies of the title, problem, idea, solution, and images explaining the process and final design.
DESIGN & SUBMISSION SPECIFICATION
- You may create a A3 (11.7″X16.5″) size artboard in Adobe Illustrator first
- Save it as a PDF file
> If you create the pdf file through Illustrator, and the illustrator file links placed graphic elements, you must embed all links then save the layout file as the pdf file. - Export the Illustrator layout (with a 11.7″X16.5“ white background in the bottom layer) to Photoshop for creating a jpg image.
- Open the exported PSD file and set up the jpg image for each entry:
> CMYK color mode
> 300 DPI resolution - Filename: Your Status (Student)_John Doe_Title
- Example: DES_John Doe_Milk or STU_John Doe_Milk
- Set up your JPEG file (A3 size in horizontal format, CMYK, 300 DPI) with ‘Image Options: Quality: 12 Maximum’ and ‘Format Options: Baseline (“Standard”)’
- Submit each entry for a jpg file and a pdf file to UDA (email the zip file of your submission folder to applyuda@gmail.com)
> Your submission folder should contain
_The PDF file of your design layout
_The JPG file of your design layout
_The Excel file (entry form)
SUBMISSION FEE
Design Students
– Single Entry: $10 USD
– Multiple Entries (Max 5 entries from one student: $30 USD
– If a student’s instructor is a UDA member, a student can submit up to three entries for free.
You can submit three works for free if those works were created from my classes.
DEADLINES
Submission Deadline: Monday, October 17, 2022
Award Announcement: Monday, November 28, 2022
UDA will announce all awarded designs at www.uniteddesigns.org.
AWARD CERTIFICATE & PUBLICATION
All winners receive an Award Certificate via email.
All award-winning works are permanent collections of the UDA archive.
