Information on Portfolio Requirements

Note A: Preparing portfolio submission

Q: How many projects should I put in the portfolio?

A: A maximum of THREE of your best projects and a few small exercises. They should be able to demonstrate your strengths in both concept creation as well as professionalism in execution.

Q: What else to include?

A: All the project briefs; concept developments and design sketches; and anything that can show us how you tackled the problems. Note that all the works shown should be self-explanatory with explanation or description next to them.

Q: What is the function of a portfolio in the admission?

A: The portfolio should demonstrate well your problem-solving skill, aesthetic sense, some basic technical skills such as drawings and 3D modeling as well as your presentation skill (organization of portfolio, tidiness, clarity of descriptive information about your submitted work, easy to open and re-close,etc.)

Q: Size of portfolio?

A: The project works must be packed flat within a portfolio of maximum A1 size. Nothing should stick out of the portfolio.

Q: Can I submit 3-dimensional work/models?

A: No three-dimensional work/models should be submitted as we have no room for their storage and are not responsible for any damage. Submit these in photographic format instead.

Q: Can I submit digital and/or video work?

A: No, you are required to print out, on an A3 sheet in colour, a selection of frames from your digital/video files for the reference of the selection panel.

Q: How do you know which is my portfolio?

A: Please use the enclosed information sheet to clearly mark your portfolio on the outside before you submit it. Please note: NO INFORMATION SHEET, NO SUBMISSION! All the work inside the portfolio should also be marked with your name and application number just in case they got separated from your portfolio.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

School of Design

BA (Hons) in Design Admission Exercise 2006/07

PORTFOLIO INFORMATION SHEET (to be fixed outside your portfolio)

Application for BA (Hons) in Design

Name: ______Application Number: 0 6 D

Phone No.: ______Email: ______

Your current course/most relevant qualification:

Course: ______

Institute: ______Year of graduation: ______

Intended Choice of Discipline – the major design discipline you would like to pursue in your study

My intended choice of discipline for the BA (Hons) in Design programme is:

(Please indicate your priority by putting 1, 2, 3 and 4 into the boxes below with 1 being your highest priority.)

Advertising Design

Environment and Interior Design

Industrial and Product Design

Visual Communication Design

Signature: ______Date: ______

Name: ______

IMPORTANT: This sheet must be fixed outside your portfolio.

Please submit your portfolio to the following address no later than 20 June 2006:

Miss Connie Cheung

School of Design

AG101

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hung Hom

Kowloon

Hong Kong

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