Join us for the comeback of Champaign-Urbana’s biggest design show.

November 4-18
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
Friday-Sunday 2-5pm

The Pro Show is coming back! A gallery exhibition of local design work including print, web, photography, motion, interactive, and more. The Pro Show offers a unique perspective on the creative work done in our community every day. The show will run from November 4th-18th at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.

You're a PRO and this is your SHOW

The CUDO PRO SHOW is the only exhibition of its kind in the area. Where else can you see and be seen with hundreds of other creative pros and fans of good design in one place?

The PRO SHOW is a unique opportunity to present your work in a professional art gallery setting. We're very proud of our local creative accomplishments — now is the time to let the community see the fruits of our labor. To help celebrate another year of creative endeavors, we're hosting our fabulous opening night reception at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center on November 4th.

Call for Entries Are Closed!

If you’re working in a creative field then we’d love to see your work in the Pro Show! The CUDO Pro Show is a gallery showcase of professional design work from designers in and around the Champaign-Urbana area. The 2022 CUDO Pro Show will be opening on November 4th, and we are now open for submissions. If you have any design work completed since 2019 and would like to submit it to our showcase, please purchase an entry below and fill out the embedded entry form. The submission deadline has been extended until October 31st.

We will be also be putting on two mounting workshops on October 22nd and October 29th. If you would like to be involved with either workshop please indicate your preferred date on the entry form. For more information on the mounting workshop, please refer to the entry rules.

Submission Guidelines

Along with completing the form and submitting it via the checkout process, you will also need to email a digital version of your work to proshow@thecudo.org and submit a physically printed version, following the below guidelines:

  • Physical submissions must be mounted to 1/4” black or white foam board.

  • Standard digital submissions should be a JPEG at least 1080px wide. For more information, see the web gallery section of the entry rules.

  • Digital submissions intended for a mounting workshop should be a JPEG at 300dpi. Please try to keep the file size below 25MB.

  • For video/motion/interactive work, please submit a frame of the work as the physical submission along with a link to the full work online.

This year we are also encouraging the showcasing of design processes, so please feel free to include work-in-progress sketches, prototypes, or any supporting material that shows the progress from the idea to the final design with your submissions. These do not have to be mounted.

Each submission will be $25. Current students, recent graduates, and Patreon supporters receive one free submission.

If you would like to submit a design that doesn’t quite fit the format please get in contact with us to work something out!