All applicants must provide a portfolio of design results. Candidates should include 12-18 examples that support their intended area of study. The Graduate Studies Committee will accept applicants’ interior design, product design, visual communication/graphic design, interactive and time-based media, or other related design areas for review in the following formats:

1. Hard Copy: formatted as an 8.5” x 11” or 8.5 x
   14 bound booklet (or A4). The portfolio should include a project description, design process, and outcome. Projects should demonstrate your ability to solve problems, the design process applied, and technical skill.
2. Electronic Media: cross-platform CD or DVD that includes images organized as a Power Point or PDF slide presentation. Interactive or time-based examples must be created in commonly used software. Electronic media submissions must be accompanied by a bound, hard copy that includes a project description, design process, and outcome.
3. For applications to Digital Animation and Interative Media (DAIM), portfolios must be presented in DVD video format. The portfolio can represent the actual work itself and/or documentation of the work. It is the applicant’s responsibility to assure that the DVD will run on both PC and Mac platforms, as well as consumer DVD players. Applicants should include
   a Project Description Sheet to address works
   documented on that DVD.

Please do not submit original or one-of-a-kind work. The Department of Design will not be responsible for any loss or damage. The Graduate Studies Committee will not review online portfolios or random image files.

Additionally, portfolios should document the process of design followed in the generation of work.