Current College for Creative Studies senior Jenna Vineyard (Communication Design & Strategy, ‘25) shares her top tips for submitting a successful portfolio when applying and highlights key resources on the CCS website to help you present your best work.
Resources
- Portfolio Requirements – Undergraduate
- Portfolio Prep with CCS Admissions
- Portfolio Examples
- Informal Portfolio Review
- Undergraduate Programs
Transcript
Hello I’m Jenna, a current Senor here at CCS, and today I’ll be walking through some portfolio tips with you!
First tip is don’t include drawings of any famous characters that are already existing. Instead try to create your own character and draw art about that!
When including sound or audio in your work make sure you double check the volume levels you don’t want it to be too loud when submitting.
If you plan to link a Google drive to your work make sure it’s set to anyone with link shared because the portfolio review goes to multiple people and so multiple people will need to be able to access that.
If you need ideas for portfolio assignments you can actually find some on the CCS website underneath portfolio requirements. You can also find examples of portfolio pieces on the CCS website underneath the same section.
Before you submit your final you can have it reviewed by a team of CCS staff in a no pressure portfolio review!
Good luck on your portfolios and hopefully we’ll see you at CCS soon!
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