What to include
You should provide 15–20 images of your work that show the range of your creative interests. Your portfolio should demonstrate your skills, creativity, motivations, and interests as a designer. Include work produced during:
- A-levels or equivalent
- foundation courses (any creative course such as art, design or technology)
- work experience
- personal projects, hobbies or crafts.
You could include:
- sketching and technical drawing
- photos of 3D objects you have designed and made
- CAD modelling and rendering
- 3D printing or coding
- research (consumer, user, visual, etc)
- photography, typography, illustration
- fashion and textile designs (including cosplay).
Include process work such as sketching, model making and prototypes. Add annotations to explain your ideas and show how you think as a designer. Focus on your best work, but avoid spending excessive time on minor details that could delay submission.
Tips
- Think about the order in which you present your images – use the sequence to tell us your creative story.
- Count a page from a sketch book as one image.
- Help us by labelling each work clearly: title, date, material/process, type of project.
How to present your work
Include a title page or slide in your portfolio, with:
- the course title(s) applied for.
Combine images and written work and save as a single PDF (recommended), then share this on a platform such as Google Drive, Adobe Portfolio or your own website.
Accessibility and support
Get in touch with our Admissions Team as early as possible if you need help with this process or need an extension to the deadline.