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Applicants to the junior year are required to submit evidence of their graphic and design abilities. Applicants should carefully select representative work, which illustrates their ability to think and communicate visually, and which demonstrates the range and depth of their familiarity with various graphic media and techniques.
Taubman College offers an annual portfolio workshop to help students prepare a portfolio of work. The workshop is usually offered in January. Please check the news and events for the 2008 workshop date. The 2007 powerpoint presentation from the workshop is currently available online as well.
Portfolio evidence of graphic and design ability must comply with the following requirements.
Content
Work may include, but need not be limited to, examples of:
• architectural design or building
• drawing-freehand and/or mechanical
• photography
• interior, industrial, and graphic design
• painting, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics
• woodworking, sewing, or other crafts
Work submitted may include class assignments, independent projects, or examples from professional employment. The applicant shall have executed all such work. If professional or group projects are submitted, the applicant must indicate the extent of his/her role in the work.
Format
The collection of samples submitted must be securely bound or fastened together in a durable folder, binder, or box whose overall dimensions do not exceed 8-1/2" x 11". Each submission shall be clearly identified with the name and address of the applicant. DO NOT send original work. Please submit reproductions of original works in the form of photocopies, prints, or photographs. The Committee will not review the following work:
• models or other three-dimensional objects
• slides
• videotapes
• folded materials/blueprints
• electronic media (CDs, DVDs, disks) and/or digital files
Deadline
All graphic and design work must be received by the Taubman College of Architecture by March 10th . Note that all paper application materials are due by February 1 to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
Return
Graphic work may be picked up at the Taubman College of Architecture after admission decisions have been made. Portfolios will be returned to applicants that submit a self addressed, prepaid mailer or sufficient postage. Work not sent back or picked up by July 1 will be discarded, unless special arrangements are made for its retention.
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