Enter a GDUSA competition to have your work showcased across Projects, Firms, and Designers.
For educators
Eight thousand juried, credited, citable projects — the closest thing American graphic design has to a permanent record. Educators get the analysis layer free.
Sign in with your institutional .edu email and the AI Design Briefingon every project page unlocks on its own — no application, no card. A briefing is an expert read of a winning project: what it is, how it is built visually, and why it stood out. Assign one alongside the entrant’s own narrative and the full credit list, and a project page becomes a case study.
The scope, plainly: academic access covers reading the intelligence layer. Member tools — portfolio hosting, mood boards, exports, analytics — stay part of membership. If your institution’s email is not a .edu domain, write to us and we will flag your account manually.
Most student entries are submitted by faculty at the end of the term. See the programs, the months, and what a win puts on a student’s permanent record.
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