UCDA Events

It’s hot outside, but we want to know how you’re keeping your cool! What do you do to de-stress? Is this something you do solo or with your team? What is it you’re doing that keeps those overwhelming feelings at …

CONTENT, CONTEXT, AND COLLABORATION: How great assets and working together can take our visual storytelling to a higher level Get an inside look at how this award-winning team creates their images. Shari and August will share the collaboration process and …

We know that each of you have talents that support the design community and you work in ways that may be subtle or very noticeable. This month we want to talk to all of you “Armchair Experts” and hear what …

For this month's Creative Conversation, we’re focused on transformations. Have you recently refreshed a major project? Or maybe you’ve gone through a rebrand? Updated a logo, redesigned a magazine? We want to see all the before and after goodness you …

Join design educators and UCDA Design Education Summit attendees for an informal discussion around this timely topic. How does Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure differ between different kinds of higher ed institutions? How can we, as graphic design educators, convey our …

The 16th annual UCDA Design Education Summit is a national summit for design educators, chairs, and students, and continues an ongoing community created specifically for graphic design educators with opportunities for professional participation and development during this online event. “Re-” is a prefix …

Some people are great at dealing with a lot... and others, not so much. We want to know how you deal with everything! Maybe your supervisor is a micromanager? Maybe your department has peanuts for a budget? Maybe you set …

If you’re like most people, you’re discouraged when your marketing doesn’t work. If you knew what to do differently, you would—but you don’t, and so you feel stuck. Meanwhile, enrollment is flat, donations are lagging, and it’s holding back the …

Videos have become an even more powerful form of communication in higher education marketing. Especially during the pandemic. University of Utah Marketing and Communication leaders, Brian Rasmussen and Jeff Bagley, will discuss how they create their award-winning videos that drive …

Commencement. Lauded by faculty and graduating students—dreaded by the design staff. With the added stress of the pandemic and many ceremonies going virtual everyone wants to know how to best tackle this obligatory event and all the elements surrounding it. …