Selection for Fashion courses
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BA Fashion Communication
Digital portfolio
Applicants are required to submit a digital portfolio for review. Your portfolio should be a selection of your work that reflects the range of your abilities through developmental work and completed works/outcomes. The portfolio should communicate your interest in the subject.
Decisions will be made primarily on the basis of the work and its suitability for the programme. We may invite applicants for an interview if we have questions about your portfolio or believe further discussion may be useful.
Our preferred formats would be a PDF or PowerPoint document, which must be hosted on a platform such as Google Docs, Google Drive or Dropbox. If your digital portfolio is presented through platforms such as Flickr and Instagram, this is fine to use too as long as we can access this through a URL.
Please take a look at our technical guidance for the suggested platforms to ensure you are sharing your portfolio with us successfully:
For Fashion Communication we would like you to include the following in your portfolio:
Portfolio work: A range of recent completed works/outcomes that may include drawing, photography, styling, graphic design, visual experimentation and/or collage. Please edit your portfolio down to what you consider to be your strongest completed works/outcomes, rather than include everything you have ever produced.
Supporting/developmental work: By this we mean sketchbook/research file work – communicating how you research into subjects (and designers, artists and brands) that interest you and develop your ideas through to a final outcome. Supporting/developmental work is as important for us as your completed works/outcomes. We will find it helpful if we can see a clear link between developmental work and completed works/outcomes.
Written work: It is important that we see how you develop and articulate your ideas through written work as the programme includes theoretical components that are assessed through essays. Please include at least one contextual or theoretical essay or report that you have completed during your current or previous studies.
We want to see what interests you about fashion and fashion communication. What does fashion communication mean to you? Are you engaging with Instagram or Depop? If you are, include links to these platforms you’re connected to. What designers, artists and image makers interest you? Which fashion photographers, designers and campaigns have you looked at in your research and why do you find their work interesting?
Portfolio task
To help us determine your suitability for the programme, we are asking all applicants to complete a short task. Your answers to these questions will provide us with insight in to your reasoning for choosing to study with us, as well as outlining your ambitions.
In no more than 300 words, we would like you to answer the following three questions:
- Why do you want to study at UWE Bristol?
- Why do you want to study on the BA(Hons) Fashion Communication programme?
- What would you have hoped to have achieved as a result of studying on the programme?
Please include your response within or alongsde your portfolio as an additional document.
Digital portfolio guidance: Fashion Communication
Watch our short advice video for guidance on what to include in your digital portfolio.
BA Fashion Communication with Foundation Year
Digital portfolio
Applicants are required to submit a digital portfolio for review. Your portfolio should be a selection of your work that reflects the range of your abilities through developmental work and completed works/outcomes. The portfolio should communicate your interest in the subject.
Decisions will be made primarily on the basis of the work and its suitability for the programme. We may invite applicants for an interview if we have questions about your portfolio or believe further discussion may be useful.
Our preferred formats would be a PDF or PowerPoint document, which must be hosted on a platform such as Google Docs, Google Drive or Dropbox. If your digital portfolio is presented through platforms such as Flickr and Instagram, this is fine to use too as long as we can access this through a URL.
Please take a look at our technical guidance for the suggested platforms to ensure you are sharing your portfolio with us successfully:
For Fashion Communication with Foundation Year we would like you to include the following in your portfolio:
Our preferred formats would be a PDF or PowerPoint document. If your digital portfolio is presented through platforms such as Google Drive, Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube and Instagram, this is fine to use too as long as we can access this through a URL.
Portfolio work: A range of recent completed works/outcomes that may include drawing, photography, styling, graphic design, visual experimentation and/or collage. Please edit your portfolio down to what you consider to be your strongest completed works/outcomes, rather than include everything you have ever produced.
Supporting work: By this we mean sketchbook/research file work – communicating how you research into subjects (and designers, artists and brands) that interest you and develop your ideas through to a final outcome. Supporting/developmental work is as important for us as your completed works/outcomes. We will find it helpful if we can see a clear link between developmental work and completed works/outcomes.
Written work: It is important that we see how you develop and articulate your ideas through written work as the programme includes theoretical components that are assessed through essays. Please include at least one contextual or theoretical essay or report that you have completed during your current or previous studies.
We want to see what interests you about fashion and fashion communication. What does fashion communication mean to you? Are you engaging with Instagram or Depop? If you are, include links to these platforms you’re connected to. What designers, artists and image makers interest you? Which fashion photographers, designers and campaigns have you looked at in your research and why do you find their work interesting?
Portfolio task
To help us determine your suitability for the programme, we are asking all applicants to complete a short task. Your answers to these questions will provide us with insight in to your reasoning for choosing to study with us, as well as outlining your ambitions.
In a word document submitted alongside your digital portfolio, and in no more than 300 words, we would like you to answer the following three questions:
- Why do you want to study at UWE Bristol?
- Why do you want to study on the BA(Hons) Fashion Communication with Foundation Year?
- What would you have hoped to have achieved as a result of studying on the programme?
BA Fashion Textiles
Digital portfolio
Applicants are required to submit a digital portfolio for review. Your portfolio should be a selection of your work that reflects the range of your abilities, your creative process (including your developmental work), and your interest in the course.
Decisions will be made primarily on the basis of the work and the ideas that you present in your portfolio. We may invite applicants for an interview if we have questions about your portfolio or think further discussion may be useful.
Our preferred platforms are Flickr and Instagram but if you have a portfolio in another format, such as documents hosted on Google Docs, Google Drive or Dropbox that is fine to use too.
Please take a look at our technical guidance for the suggested platforms to ensure you are sharing your portfolio with us successfully:
For Fashion Textiles we would like you to include the following in your portfolio:
- A range of recent work that includes drawing, collage, photography and experimentation with ideas, surfaces and materials. We are looking for evidence that you are keen to experiment, have lots of creative ideas and that you enjoy working with a variety of materials, media and colour.;
- Research and idea development: it’s really important that we are able to see how you explore and develop ideas from research, so make sure you include this as it’s just as important as finished pieces.
- Drawing underpins everything we do here, and it’s vital that you are happy to use drawing as a tool in your creative work. Don’t worry if you don’t think you are very good at it yet, we still need to see it. This could be observational drawing, experimental drawing, life drawing or mark-making – we just want to see how you use it to explore, develop and communicate your ideas.
- We want to see what interests you about fashion textiles. What does the subject mean to you? This might be ideas for shape and form on the body, or surface, colour and pattern work. Include work that reflects your interests and gives us an idea of how you are approaching the subject. You do not need to include garment designs.
- Written work: it is important that we see how you develop and articulate your ideas through written work; please include one contextual or theoretical essay or other piece of writing that you have done on your current or previous course.
Portfolio task
In order for us to get an insight into your creative potential, we would like you to complete the following tasks. The tasks have been designed to enable you to showcase a range of processes and creative approaches that we believe are the cornerstones of subject awareness and creative development.
Drawing
In addition to the sketchbook pages, please include five drawings in any media, scale or materials of the following items from your wardrobe: a pair of shoes, a piece of knitwear, a shirt, a piece of denim clothing and a coat.
Use your drawings to demonstrate your ability to capture the ‘essence’ of the garment through different approaches to mark-making and drawing styles. Try to capture and communicate the materials, the fluidity and movement of the fabric, texture, surface, colour, pattern, trimmings and any fastenings. Each drawing can be rendered in a different way and should be included in the portfolio as a single image.
Film or audio recording that answers the following questions
- Why have you chosen to apply for Fashion Textiles?
- What will you bring to the community of students and staff in terms of your:
- perspective on Fashion Textiles – why do you love it/find it interesting/inspiring?
- personal attributes
- a unique ability or skill that you have.
Your film should be no longer than three minutes (a minute would be fine) and does not need to be edited. You can use your phone or a computer to record and you do not have to appear in the film - you could just record yourself speaking the answers if you would prefer.
Digital portfolio guidance: Fashion Textiles
Watch our short advice video for guidance on what to include in your digital portfolio.
BA Fashion Textiles with Foundation Year
Digital portfolio
Applicants are required to submit a digital portfolio for review. Your portfolio should be a selection of your work that reflects the range of your abilities, your creative process (including your developmental work), and your interest in the course.
Decisions will be made primarily on the basis of the work and the ideas that you present in your portfolio.
Our preferred platforms are Flickr and Instagram but if you have a portfolio in another format, such as documents hosted on Google Docs, Google Drive or Dropbox that is fine to use too.
Please take a look at our technical guidance for the suggested platforms to ensure you are sharing your portfolio with us successfully:
For Fashion Textiles with Foundation Year we would like you to include the following in your portfolio:
- A range of recent work that includes drawing, collage, photography and experimentation with ideas, surfaces and materials. We are looking for evidence that you are keen to experiment, have lots of creative ideas and that you enjoy working with a variety of materials, media and colour.
- Research and idea development: it’s really important that we are able to see how you explore and develop ideas from research, so make sure you include this as it’s just as important as finished pieces.
- Drawing underpins everything we do here, and it’s vital that you are happy to use drawing as a tool in your creative work. Don’t worry if you don’t think you are very good at it yet, we still need to see it. This could be observational drawing, experimental drawing, life drawing or mark-making – we just want to see how you use it to explore, develop and communicate your ideas.
- We want to see what interests you about fashion textiles. What does the subject mean to you? This might be ideas for shape and form on the body, or surface, colour and pattern work. Include work that reflects your interests and gives us an idea of how you are approaching the subject. You do not need to include garment designs.
- Written work: it is important that we see how you develop and articulate your ideas through written work; please include one contextual or theoretical essay or other piece of writing that you have done on your current or previous course.