A portfolio is only interesting alongside the thinking that produced it. Each project below is shown with the question it started from and what it became. The projects below are two students’, published with written permission, and they carry the offers that followed.
Fourteen days observing a single snail adapting to a new environment, turned into an infographic system. The question was whether a biological record could carry a design argument; the answer was a narrative built in layered acrylic rather than on a page.
Infographics & book design · acrylic and cardboard · 2024 Admitted · RCA MA Visual Communication · KCL MA Cultural & Creative Industries
Six Cantos of Dante staged live by twelve students across literature, drama and graphic design. This student built the visual effects for Cantos 1, 4, 13 and 34 and edited the audio for five. Collaboration at this scale is rare in an applicant portfolio and reads clearly to a committee.
Visual & sound effects, live performance and projection · 2024 Admitted · RCA MA Visual Communication · KCL MA Cultural & Creative Industries
A device built from scratch to turn sound into graphics. The project is a long run of experiments on the relationship between sound, light and image, and the portfolio keeps the failed tests in view alongside the resolved outcome.
Visual experiment, sound visualisation and tool design · 2023 Admitted · RCA MA Visual Communication · KCL MA Cultural & Creative Industries
A book entirely generated by AI, fictionalising a research report on an alien object in order to satirise anthropocentrism. The AI is the argument here, not the shortcut — which is the distinction a committee is actually testing for.
Book design · print and bookbinding · 2024 Admitted · RCA MA Visual Communication · KCL MA Cultural & Creative Industries
A typeface and a medical-record booklet built from figure skating. The project is about what a body hides while it performs, and the transparent stock is the argument — the injury is legible only when the sheets are layered.
Typography & book design · semi-transparent paper and aluminium · 2024–25
A mockumentary built from AI-generated imagery, 3D and live action, published as a newspaper. It asks how authority is constructed and why fiction becomes believable once it has been documented — which is a sharper use of AI than most applicants manage.
Newspaper, film & 3D · AI-generated imagery · 2024–25
A speculative brand for a future in which nutrition has replaced taste and cake survives as jewellery. Branding, 3D-printed pieces and AR, carried by photography that does the persuading.
Branding & jewellery · 3D printing and AR · 2025List only programs you can substantiate. Overstating placements is the fastest way to lose a referral network.
Rhode Island School of Design
Parsons School of Design
Pratt Institute
School of Visual Arts
Central Saint Martins
Royal College of Art
Goldsmiths
UAL London College of Communication
ArtCenter College of Design
CalArts
Cooper Union
Carnegie Mellon
NYU Tisch ITP
Columbia GSAPP
Yale School of Art
Bard MFA