Preliminary assignments for Bachelor's Programme in Design and Media

Bachelor’s Programme in Design and Media – Intake 2025 
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 One
One of the themes in the Aalto University strategy is ‘radical creativity’ (see https://www.aalto.fi/en/our-strategy/radical-creativity). Identify an example of a local practice or activity that, in your view, well represents this radical creativity, apart from your own work. Write a short introduction to your example accompanied by one representational image. The example you select should be concrete, and in your introduction, you should justify your selection well (maximum 100 words altogether).

Part Two
Create a marketing poster for your example that captures its radical creativity.

Part Three
Using your selected example as inspiration, produce a tangible object that embodies or symbolises radical creativity. Indicate the scale of the object, and present it from two different viewpoints in photographs or rendered visuals.

Evaluation Criteria
•    Ability to analytically connect a concrete example with a given theme,
•    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 8 January 2025. 

It is your responsibility to ensure that assignments are uploaded to the Studyinfo application form by 30 January 2025 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