Expand+LYIT Design & Creative Media Portfolio Guidelines

What is a portfolio?
A portfolio is a sample collection of your best work. It should be edited, easy to look through, and well presented. Be selective: include and highlight only your best work, e...

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What is a portfolio?
A portfolio is a sample collection of your best work. It should be edited, easy to look through, and well presented. Be selective: include and highlight only your best work, excluding early works unless there are some exceptional pieces.

Do not “pack” it with any more than 20 pieces (we appreciate quality, not quantity).

What to include:
• Notebooks, cuttings, creative sketchbooks or visual diaries indicating your interest in visual communication, animation or fashion

• Drawings - studies in line and tone, based on your immediate environment. Include still life, life drawings and analythical drawing in a range of media

• Clearly identify your role if teamwork is included

• Please submit any digital work to the Head of Department on DVD, CD or directly to: nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie

What not to include:
• Do not include drawings or paintings copied from photographs, books or magazines

• Do not include any artwork which is a copy of someone else’s work

• Do not include 3D work (photographs of the work are fine).

Some institutes now ask applicants to limit their portfolio to a “special project”. At LYIT, we do not ask for a special project as we recognise that every applicant is different, and the portfolio should show your individual abilities and interests. If you are working on a special project then please do include it in your portfolio if you are pleased with it, but we really want to see work that demonstrates a real enthusiasm for design, animation or fashion.

Expand+Early online application (discounted): Fee €30 Closing Date: 20th January 2018 at 5:15pm

Normal online application: Fee €45 Closing Date: 1st February 2018 at 5:15pm

Late online application - restrictions apply: Fee: €60 Closing Date: 1st May 2...

Hide-Early online application (discounted): Fee €30 Closing Date: 20th January 2018 at 5:15pm

Normal online application: Fee €45 Closing Date: 1st February 2018 at 5:15pm

Late online application - restrictions apply: Fee: €60 Closing Date: 1st May 2018 at 5:15 pm

Change of Mind - restrictions apply: Fee: Nil Closing Date: 1st July 2018 5:15 pm

Exceptional online late application - see page 14 of the 2018 CAO Handbook: Fee €60 Closing Date: 22nd July 2018 at 5:15pm

You should avoid submitting an application close to a closing date. No extensions to closing dates will be allowed and all fees are non-refundable.

LATE APPLICATIONS
Late Applications are those which are received after 5:15pm on 1st February 2018 and will be accepted up to 5:15pm on 1st May 2018, subject to the restricitions listed on page 3 of the 2018 CAO Handbook. The online facility for late applications opens on the 5th March 2018 at 12:00 noon - a fee of €60 applies.

Exceptional Late Applications (Exception to the Timetable)
The exceptional closing date of 22nd of July at 5:15pm applies only to applicants who are currently undergraduate students in any year in any one of the participating HEIs (subject to the exclusions listed below). In order to avail of the Exceptional Late Application facility you must have entered the HEI through the CAO system.

If you did not enter your current course through the CAO system, you must first contact the Admissions Office of the HEI to which you wish to apply and they will inform you if you may submit an application direct to the institution.

Exclusions:
You may submit a late application only for entry to courses other than your existing course. If you wish to repeat the year in the same course you must arrange this within your HEI.

Mary Immaculate College Limerick, Trinity College Dublin, University of Limerick, Maynooth University and Galway Mayo Institute of Technology have special procedures in place in the case of current or previous students who wish to apply for entry to another course in the same HEI. Such applicants must contact their Admissions Office to determine the application procedure. However, if you are a student in another HEI and you wish to apply to any of these five HEIs, you should apply through CAO.

Refer to page 15 of the 2018 CAO Handbook on how to make an Exceptional Late Application.

Restricted-category Applicants
Mature applicants – most HEIs will require mature applicants, who wish to be assessed on mature grounds, to have applied to CAO by 1st February 2018 at 5:15pm. (This restriction does not apply if the applicant wishes to be considered on the basis of school leaving qualifications only.) For more information about applying to CAO on the basis of mature years go to www.cao.ie/mature.

Applying for the HEAR and/or DARE schemes – to be considered for the HEAR and/or DARE schemes applicants must have registered on the CAO system by 1st February 2018 at 5:15pm and must have completed the HEAR/DARE application form by 1st March 2018 at 5:15pm – supporting documents must be sent to CAO offices before 1st April 2018 at 5:15pm.

Expand+Is this course for you?
From the moment you wake up in the morning until the time you go to sleep you are sure to come into contact with numerous forms of visual communication. This course immerses the student in a wide range of design disciplines ...

Hide-Is this course for you?
From the moment you wake up in the morning until the time you go to sleep you are sure to come into contact with numerous forms of visual communication. This course immerses the student in a wide range of design disciplines – from photography and image making to motion graphics and interactive design, allowing students to develop their creativity, communication skills, and design and technical expertise. The course allows for a semester abroad at a partner Institute in another European country as well as taking part in projects with real clients and international competitions.

Expand+What will I study?

Year 1

Semester 1
Design Fundamentals M 10
Image Making Fundamentals M 10
The Design Process M 5
Communication Skills M 5

Semester 2
Graphic Design - Layout M 10
Image Making – Moving Image M 10
Web Design 1 – Proce...

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Year 1

Semester 1
Design Fundamentals M 10
Image Making Fundamentals M 10
The Design Process M 5
Communication Skills M 5

Semester 2
Graphic Design - Layout M 10
Image Making – Moving Image M 10
Web Design 1 – Process M 5
Design History M 5

Year 2

Semester 1
Graphic Design – Identity M 10
Image Making for Communications M 10
Web Design 2 – Information Architecture M 5
Design Theory – 20th Century Graphic Design M 5

Semester 2
Spatial Graphic Design M 15
Web Design 3 – Grid & Type Online M 5
Design & Marketing M 5
Design Theory 20th Century Graphic Design M 5

Year 3

Semester 1
Visual Communications – Advertising M 10
Image Making for Advertising M 10
Web Design 4 – Responsive Design M 5
Design Theory – Advertising & Branding M 5

Semester 2
Choose one of the following Electives (E):
Workplace Learning 30
Erasmus Semester Abroad 30
Professional Design Practice 30

Year 4

Semester 1
Design & Image in Motion M 10
Business of Graphic Design M 10
Contemporary Design Theory M 10

Semester 2
Design Project M 10
Personal Promotion M 10
Innovation & Creativity M 10

M = Mandatory
E = Elective

Expand+Career opportunities
Successful graduates find themselves working in the following sectors:

• Advertising & Marketing Agencies
• General Marketing
• Publishing
• Media
• Graphic Design
• Web Design

Graduate careers typically include:

•...

Hide-Career opportunities
Successful graduates find themselves working in the following sectors:

• Advertising & Marketing Agencies
• General Marketing
• Publishing
• Media
• Graphic Design
• Web Design

Graduate careers typically include:

• Graphic Designer
• Advertising & Art Direction
• Web Designer
• Interactive Media
• Motion Graphics
• Print & Publishing
• Freelance Designer & Illustrator

Follow-on courses
• Masters degrees in institutes and universities at home and abroad.