Seminars and Interview Sessions

Art Portfolio Virtual Seminar (Coventry University)

Amy Davies

Associate Head, School of Arts & Creative Industries

Philip Perry

Curriculum Lead: Design

Responsible for BA (Hons) Automotive & Transport Design, BA (Hons) Graphic Design, BA (Hons) Product Design, MA Automotive & Transport Design, MA Graphic Design, MA Product Design Innovation

Rebecca Ryder Caddy

Curriculum Lead: Design & Creative Business

Responsible for BA (Hons) Fashion, BA (Hons) Fashion Brand & Communication, BA (Hons) International Fashion Business, MA Design Management, MA Applied Innovation Leadership

Tulika Gadakari

Associate Professor & Curriculum Lead: Architecture

Responsible for BSc (Hons) Architecture, BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design, MArch Architecture, MA Interior Design

All students are required to present an art portfolio when they apply for an art & design programme. What makes a good portfolio? What kinds of works should be included and what shouldn’t? How should you present your portfolio? Should you write an explanation or let the work speak for itself?

In the seminar, Amy Davies (Associate Head, School of Arts & Creative Industries) and her Curriculum Lead colleagues from Coventry University will introduce all the basics of art portfolios, provide examples and share what expectation art schools have in their students.

• The Basics of Art Portfolio: The sketchbook, How many pieces of work should you include? What kind of work can you include?
• Specific portfolio requirement for different art disciplines
• Examples of outstanding Art Portfolios from the past

Coventry University School of Arts & Creative Industries: World’s Best Automotive Design, as well as Graphic Design, Digital Media, Games Art & Development, etc

Now called the School of Arts & Creative Industries, the Art & Design department in Coventry University is an art school with over 160 years of history and a very good reputation in the UK. Its wide-ranging course portfolio covers Fine Art, Fashion Design, Graphic Design & Illustration, Product Design, Architecture & Interior Design, Digital Media, Film & Photography and more. Its Automotive & Transport Design programme is voted the best in the world by World Automotive Design Competition, and has industry links with leading manufacturers headquartered in the UK (or with production lines in the UK), including Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan, Aston Martin and Bentley & Rolls Royce. Apart from learning to design cars and vehicles, students might also work on bicycle and yacht design, which is particularly noteworthy for students who are interest in Product Design but prefer a more specific area of focus! In other areas, Interior Design students from Coventry University are recently invited by french sportswear brand VEJA, to provide store design concepts and proposals.

Art & Design graduates from Coventry University have achieved remarkable success in the art and cultural circles. They include Kevin de la Noy (movie producer of Batman: The Dark Knight), Christopher Townsend (production VFX supervisor of Captain Marvel), David Imai (former Director of Design of Tesla), to just name a few!

The “Common First Year” in Arts & Design Programmes

Within the School of Arts & Creative Industries, there is a “Common First Year” arrangement where students from the same programmes group will study the same modules in Year One. The arrangement allows students to study with and learn from like-minded people, offers more flexibility to fine tune their study, allowing them to change to another programmes in Year Two if the circumstances are right:

• BA (Hons) Animation
• BA (Hons) Digital Media
• BA (Hons) Games Art
• BA (Hons) Games Design & Development

• BA (Hons) Automotive & Transport Design
• BA (Hons) Graphic Design
• BA (Hons) Product Design

• BA (Hons) Fashion
• BA (Hons) Fashion, Brand & Communication
• BA (Hons) International Fashion Business

• BA (Hons) Film Production
• BA (Hons) Media Production

• BA (Hons) Fine Art
• BA (Hons) Illustration
• BA (Hons) Photography

• BA (Hons) Media & Communications
• BA (Hons) Journalism

• BSc (Hons) Architecture

• BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design

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