The portfolio should provide the best examples of creative intellectual activity and recent professional work.
Requirements
Successful candidates are chosen from a large pool of applicants. The design of the portfolio is important, and the Admissions Committee will also be considering the quality and clarity of the work presented.
Your submission should include:
- Resume (academics, work experience, interests, and other);
- Statement of interest with reasons for wanting to study industrial design; and
- Diverse selection of creative works (10-15 suggested) that demonstrated your critical thinking and problem-solving process in the development of the final work. Please include explanatory notes where needed to explain the theme, problem, or process. Show creative effort through fine artwork such as drawing, sketching, sculptures, painting. You may also present work in performance and digital arts, such as film, dance, event design, drama/theatre, video, game design, animation etc. You may demonstrate the human interaction with your design work such as fashion, jewelry design, furniture, built environments, sports equipment. Illustrate if you work with different technologies such as computer aided design, technical communication, machining, fabrication, programable hardware devices and software design, as well as robotics and coding.
Your portfolio will be evaluated on the following.
Skills
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Traits
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The Portfolio and Information sessions for 2025-2026 academic cycle are December 12 (in-person), January 16 (online), and February 13 (online) – REGISTER HERE.
Technical specifications
The portfolio should not exceed 20 samples.
Your portfolio can be:
- Single compiled .pdf portfolio. Please limit to 20 pages.
- Maximum of 20 individual images. Please upload 1 (one) image at a time. Images may be submitted in horizontal and/or vertical orientation. Images larger than 1280 x 1280 x 72 PPI will be resized.
- A combination of individual images, videos, and documents. Please upload 1 item at a time and do not exceed 20 items. Within this option, multiple-page PDF files that are within a single item will NOT be seen to be reviewed. Videos should not exceed 2 minutes, or they will NOT be reviewed in their entirety. You should limit your video submissions to a maximum of 2 videos.
Acceptable File Types:
- Images: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tif, .tiff, .bmp, .tga
- Videos: .m4v, .mov, .mp4, .wmv, .flv, .asf, .mpeg, .mpg, .mkv
- Documents: .pdf
Acceptable File Sizes:
- Images must be under 5 MB (images that exceed 1280 x 1280 x 72 PPI will be resized).
- Videos must be less than 250 MB in size (videos should not exceed 2 minutes).
- Documents must be less than 10 MB.
SlideRoom Support has a great file and image size page for the Portfolio upload – Working with Media and Your Portfolio. You can upload images with any dimensions, as SlideRoom resizes images larger than 1280 x 1280 x 72 PPI. Images and videos are subject to be compressed to be displayed properly in SlideRoom.
Submission
Submit CV, statement of interest and portfolio samples online using Slideroom.
Slideroom will be available starting July 1. Please note there is a $10(US) administration fee to set up a Slideroom account.
Example Portfolios
Samples of portfolios accepted to the Bachelor of Industrial Design program. Please note the wide range of content and skill that illustrates applicants’ unique strengths and interests.
Sondos Bazara [PDF]
Jade Bruins [PDF]
Janine Loo [PDF]
Justin Low [PDF]
Sash Mahara [PDF]
Senafa Noudelhou [PDF]
Eric Pond [PDF]
Zach Rodgers [PDF]
Audrey Sabbagh [PDF]
Jenna Si [PDF]
Sofia Tapia [PDF]
Kole Tromp [PDF]
Cora Vasut [PDF]
Imasha Walatara [PDF]
Rebecca Wang [PDF]
Tommy Wiwchar [PDF]
Tyler Worden [PDF]
Albert Yu [PDF]
Start your application
Applications are managed by the Undergraduate Admissions Department, and portfolios are submitted separately to Slideroom.