Preliminary assignments for Bachelor's Programme in Design and Media

Bachelor’s Programme in Design and Media – Intake 2026 
Preliminary Assignments

As part of the application process for the Bachelor’s Programme in Design and Media, you are asked to complete preliminary assignments. You must complete the preliminary assignments independently and without guidance. 

Instructions

• Plan the composition and present all of the following three parts of your work in a one-page PDF document.
• You can use any materials and tools you wish to create the content for the document. Please specify all of the tools you used in the process of doing the preliminary assignments.
• Do not include any external links in the PDF.

Part 1

Choose a good local festival and write a short text introducing it. Include with your text one representational image that reflects the festival’s current brand identity. The festival must be one in which you have not been employed or involved as a contributor of work. The example you select should be a concrete, local event, and in your introduction, you should justify your selection well (maximum length: 100 words altogether).

Part 2

Create a promotional poster with a new visual identity for the selected festival. 

Part 3

Produce a scale model of the main entrance to the festival. The entrance should reflect the festival’s new brand identity. The model should include a human figure in silhouette form to indicate the scale of the entrance. Present the model from two different viewpoints in photographs or rendered visuals.

Evaluation Criteria

• Ability to construct a strong argument,
• Foundations possessed for contemporary design and/or craft skills,
• Strategic thinking, and
• Aesthetic value of the work as a whole.
   

Returning the assignment

To return the assignment, upload the file to your Studyinfo application form, under the section 'Design and Media: Preliminary Assignments'. Assignments cannot be returned by any other means. If you are uploading the assignment after you have already submitted the application form for the first time, please note that you need to also save the changes after uploading the file. Click the ‘Save modifications’ button on the top right of the application form. Note that the Studyinfo application form will open on 7 January 2026. 

It is your responsibility to ensure that assignments are uploaded to the Studyinfo application form by 29 January 2026 at 3pm/15.00 (UTC+2). The upload must be completed, and the application form saved no later than 2.59pm/14.59.

To avoid sudden technical problems, internet connection failures or confusion with time zones, we strongly advise you to not leave the uploading to the last few hours before the deadline. With no exceptions, assignments that arrive after the deadline will not be evaluated. 

The university does not give any additional instructions for completing the assignments.

You can view previous years' preliminary and intake assignments for Bachelor's Programme in Design here