BFA in Packaging Design

Your essay should answer the following questions: What makes you a perfect candidate for FIT? Why are you interested in the major you are applying to? The essay is your chance to tell us more about your experiences, activities, and accomplishments. (No more than 750 words, please.)

Arrange to have all official secondary and post-secondary transcripts sent directly from your schools to FIT. Electronic delivery of transcripts will be the quickest way to receive and process your documents.

A BFA applicant portfolio should consist of design work that demonstrates a breadth of strengths including: creativity; innovative thinking; conceptual development process; drawing ability; color sensibilities, 2D and 3D design skills, design composition; digital design; and ability to work in a variety of media. At least one strong example of the applicants’ design development process should be submitted. This design process may be submitted in the form of digital scans of multiple pages of a sketchbook. Work submitted should relate to the applicant’s choice BFA major but also demonstrate overall design strengths and abilities. Only the strongest pieces should be included in the portfolio. Applicants should submit 12-15 pieces of their strongest and most current work. Identify all work with project name, size, medium and concept. If work was created as a team project, the applicant should describe their specific role in the process. Quality and professional presentation are critical. The portfolio may include: • Applicant’s design and concept development process • Typography • Page layout • Advertising and Digital Design, Graphic Design, Packaging Design, Visual Presentation, and Exhibition Design • Three-dimensional design • Motion, interactive and/or other screen-based work • Work that represents current strengths Please be advised that SlideRoom allows a MAXIMUM of 5 files per portfolio submission. Each of these files may be a PDF (up to 10MB) or a video (up to 250MB). The applicant will need to include multiple pieces of work in one or more of the files submitted in order to present the 12-15 pieces requested. This may be accomplished by creating and submitting multi-page PDFs. Provide 1-5 items. Video (up to 250MB each), PDFs (up to 10MB each)

TOEFL/IELTS SAT/ACT (Optional)