Hiya is Canva a good software to start a portfolio?

same my born day architect from bangalore

U got me there bro😭😂

Hii which college are you in?

Much love

cheers!

I feel like UCL looks for scarily talented portfolios but I don't think all portfolios will be as high quality as this one. Sending in a portfolio is so scary tbh my portfolio is nearly done and I'm teriffied haha. Everything seems better than mine for some reason.

good luck y'all you go both gonna do great ;)

You’ll be fine. In a 3rd year architectural design student at Pratt university. I didn’t even submit a portfolio to be admitted into the university. Main thing is showing you can grow. Architecture is a hard as fuck major and you’re gonna have a lot of sleepless nights when you first start out. As long as you have some good grades you can get into most schools. But you’ll be at a disadvantage when you first start out. Just don’t be discouraged.

cant believe im just seeing this😂im sure you're fine. I've been rejected from plenty of universities at this point haha i think this portfolio is just quite finalized as in well-formatted, but i don't think that's required at all, hope it all went well! And if not, there's always masters brother

Hahaha thats not the case, i still get obliterated during tutorials:)

First year student?

@@canmandan6 yeah! Any recommendations?

Dont stress, be crazy with your ideas and just do exactly as your tutors say :)

@@adrianarodriguez-villa5222 Hi congrats on getting in! How are you finding it so far? I am thinking about applying to UCL this year is there any way you could review my portfolio to see if it is a good enough standard?

Yea of course, but since im still in undergrads i think i’ll just give my personal perspective on Bartlett as a whole in terms of what its all about, definitely a video i want to do :)

Yeah! I was suprised too when i learnt that TU Delft was in the top 3 in architecture. It was coming after MIT and i was shocked. That was the first time that i heard about TU Delft. Than i searched about it and now i want to study arch. in TU Delft too. Hope you get in there:)

@@nur-fu7po wait you guys speak dutch? it was my dream uni until I saw the language requirements :/

I would love to😩, just been super busy haha but i will definitely try to post some time before Spring break ends:)

haha thank you

Thank you so much! And hope it went well?

thank you!!

definitely have requirements for amount of pages and each Uni is different. No themes though i've never applied to a university with a specific theme!

贊同！

Definitely put some personal works that aren't subject related in your portfolio, it shows that you have a "personality". I've 3 types of works in my portfolio, architectural ones(my thinking), personal ones(what i care about - lion painting), and school works(my other skills - digital illustrations), diversity is good! However, only put in your proudest works, they say your portfolio is as good as your worst piece in it haha, you want to aim for around 10 pages. For personal statement, i wrote two different ones for UCAS and AA, i actually made up my entire AA statement talking about a place i've never been to... but yea, you portfolio is much more important than you PS. AA's prompt was to describe your experience in a "space/building" that you enjoyed(reading online articles about architecture helps alot), and UCAS was just to talk about why you chose the program i think(get personal with this). Hope this helps!!

@@kelvindoesarchitecture6793 thanks a ton!

Thats cool! I think visual arts have so much in common with architecture. Maybe try drawing with a story or prompt in mind? As in less focused on techniques but more of using techniques to tell a story, for example, a painting of your room if you could buy anything you wanted. Or what would it look like if you were to design a teddy bear or a pillow that's most suitable for visual arts students, idk just random things that you enjoy haha. Try to build a story around these things that you can explain to the viewer and point to parts of the drawing as you go along. In my humble opinion, architecture is mostly storytelling of why a thing looks like what it is so as long as you can explain the reason you drew a certain thing in a certain way, it's good! And better if what you're drawing is somewhat structural/inhabitable :) A few of the projects at the end were school projects, but mostly are ones i did outside of school with prompts that i decided!

Yup it is:)

Hey i love u too man ;)

Congrats! First year is all about learning how to hand draft, so i recommend getting a drawing table right off the bat :)

Definitely too late to respond to this, but yeah what makes you interested in architecture? i think just use whatever medium you want to showcase that interest, film, photo, clay model, food, essay. I don't think you NEED a art background for it, but i do think it would be good to have the fundamentals of some form of design method (drawing, 3d modelling...) since you will eventually be designing

I am actually not sure tbh since i don’t have the indesign file on my computer anymore, but impact seems pretty close :)

100%!

ty! I started pretty much at the end of summer before my last year of highschool :)

No but i do offer tutorials :)

@@kelvindoesarchitecture6793 Thats okay thx, I have another question - On your map of las vegas slides how did you photoshop your drawings so precisely. Especially the part where you layered the drawings on two different coloured backgrounds. I am trying to do this as well but it would take me hourssss to erase each individual pixel, so is there like a shortcut?

@@hey2422 think i did something like this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gal1Z9R8sNrFlGw.html&ab_channel=MichaelBullo

A laptop is enough for 1st and 2nd year like a decently high performance laptop and i now use a pc:)

Thank u!

Can be anything! Just show your love for what you do! Would be good to have some variation to show different skills but yeah i think different is good, as long as you are really well-versed at the medium you choose.

Can't geometries be abstract?🤔don't let them kill your passion brother

Ty!

Illustrator for drawing 2d things digitally, photoshop for making layouts or images or collages, InDesign for laying out portfolio!

nahhhh hahah

Yeah exactly, i printed the portfolio in booklet form and mailed it to the school!

Ucl required 75 average for my case(international student from Canada) and mine was higher (90+) but its not that important as long as u pass the requirement :)

I started at bartlett in first year :)

Ahhh just curious do you know if they accept 2nd year transfers? 😄

​@@rosscoronia i don't think so lol, unfortunately

cheers g

The champ himself!!

I didn’t take A levels haha i went to highschool in Canada but i did take Visual and Media Arts :)) i don’t think it’s required though

@@kelvindoesarchitecture6793 thank you!!

Nope, not much at all lol. I think it was like 10-20% of your overall grades. So maybe first year 10%, second year 30%, third year 50% (I think)

Lots of very good drawing tutorials on YT :))

Thank you!

InDesign for portfolio and Illustrator for all the digital drawings!

Oh yeah, it depends on the school but generally you can find time for other commitments like societies and part times but obviously you will be pretty busy after that :)

I just checked it out:) i don’t think there was a MSci program when i was applying but i think BSc gets credited by both ARB and RIBA but MSci only gets it from ARB, not exactly sure what that means exactly but i think the end certificate u get is abit different

@@kelvindoesarchitecture6793 ok thank youuu!!!

@@kelvindoesarchitecture6793 didn’t you need to add some sculptures or a film link or something?? I thought they ask that in the portfolio...

You just photograph/scan them and drag them into InDesign, my next video will likely be about this topic but yea. And i spent 4months on my architectural works and portfolio making(excluding my personal works from and stuff from school )

@@kelvindoesarchitecture6793 do different unis for for different things in a portfolio or are they all kind pf looking for the same thing?

plinkaplanka all pretty similar in my opinion, you only need one portfolio

@@kelvindoesarchitecture6793 do you think i could use some pictures of models i made in my school for a product that im designing?

plinkaplanka of course haha

i think rules were probably different back then, i definitely submitted according to the requirements haha don't test them!

Hmmm i actually don't know. I remember the limit to be "under 25 pages" when i applied. And i never submitted a PDF version, only a physical copy that i mailed to them so maybe the guidelines are different now

InDesign!

It is crazy expensive... i unfortunately did not get scholarships (it's not easy to get :/) but i've tried time and time again

Vivek Shah tysm! So for the layout i used InDesign, which will take care of all ur future portfolio making throughout undergrads. You want to keep your layout as simple as possible (i kinda over-did it), because your works should be the main focus. Theres alot of InDesign tutorials out there so learning the basics shouldn’t be a problem(all u need is the basics). The most useful feature for me is the guidelines which you can use to keep your layout consistent so your entire portfolio can look cohesive! For examples of good layouts, just search up some professional architecture portfolio online, or use mine as a reference. Since my pages are mostly white, i simply scanned my sketches, and since they were done on white paper, no blending is needed :) and for paintings and pieces that you can’t scan, you can check out the tutorials on yt about photographing paintings/models. Hope this helps!

you've already done yours..whAt i'm applying next year too havent started rippp

@@sagrikaarun9428 I'm an early applicant coz I'm applying to Cambridge so yh

@@rebe_eka Guys please help they’re asking for a short story in response to a journey I take in my everyday life. I don’t know what they mean by “a journey I take in my everyday life” is it a physical journey? Is it an on going journey? What do they mean??

@@yasuof3291 I submitted a short storyboard/comic book of a physical journey I took. The prompt they gave us this year was extremely vague and I personally think it's open for interpretation, to be honest. I think the things you mentioned are all valid.

I'm applying for next year too (not for UCL but Sheffield) and I just started mine lmao. I'll probably have around 5 weeks and I've been pulling all nighters trying to get stuff done that I'll be proud of. It's so nerve wrecking tho.

I didn't do A levels, was in the AP system since i applied from Canada

Not sure which project you’re speaking of, the cedar leaf one?

@@kelvindoesarchitecture6793 No, I mean the one called landscape in section 5. Sorry should have made that more clear😅.

@@zainab0_048 Ohh the painting, her name is Julia Veenstra!

Just checked, in the "Selection" section it says"Submissions will then be assessed and successful applicants are invited for an interview to present a portfolio of work."

The one you present on your video was also to apply for a bachelor ?

@@aurianect3286 oui

Yeah they do have Global Master Scholarships, don't think it fully funds the entire study but yeah it's also not easy to get from my personal experience! It's not marit based it's need based

Check out the other vid lol

hahahahahahha i love him!! so cool to see him do architecture too!!

This was my highschool portfolio for apply to uni!

hi .. your high school portfolio is better than some uni graduating students - with your very creative conceptual mind, you should have gone to AA ..

InDesign

I used inDesign!

Sorry dude i don’t think i know enough to answer ur question but i’m sure the school can help u out, just shoot them an email :)

InDesign my friend

Oh boy, its a 10 sometimes but i would give it an 8 on average :)

Hey, to fully fund your studies? I think it's doable if you are paying local fees, you can find jobs at local firms for sure given you have the technical skills or experience. But if you're paying international fees then it's kind of impossible to fully fund it with part-time jobs...

For undergrad my guy😅

Highschool:)

Who cares he got in is what matters 😂

Completely understand your thoughts haha im very aware of this. I think there are many ways to design and at this level, i was more interested in learning how to visually combine references. I would say tho that this is still very much architecture, just not practical architecture, im sure you look at a lot of visual references yourself that might not be spatial and technical - Lebbeus woods for example :)

Grades really don't matter much for UCL lol, it's probably too late for me to say this but hope you did well anyways! (+there is always masters)

Data management, calculus, visual arts, communication technology, computer science, english, physics!

lmao its FL Studio

@@kelvindoesarchitecture6793 How did you learn it? Is it easy to learn music software?

@@deeebshows3008 i didnt really learn it well lol i was pretty bad at it, i'd say it's hard at least for me