Great News

At USF's SACD there are three portfolio submissions you must go through. The first is your work prior to trying to enter the program, which can be whatever you want it to be. This portfolio allows you entrance into our program, but it simply just gets your foot in the door. After you have completed 'Core' Design (3 Semesters worth of Studio) you are required to compile a portfolio of your Core work and submit it for review so you may gain access to the 'Advanced' Design sequence. Finally, after 3 more design semesters you must submit a portfolio of your Advanced work to be reviewed by the faculty to gain access to your final year: THESIS.

I started at USF's SACD in the Fall of 2008. I finished Core Design 3 at the end of the following Fall and my Core Portfolio was due the first day of school that following January. At this point I had known that since because I was deferring my Advanced Design A semester to the summer to take it abroad in Spain that I would have a full semester extension to work on my portfolio instead. I decided to work on as much of it as possible over the winter break, and I did, but frankly since my mother died only 2 months before that I needed a mental break so I only developed the "templates" for the whole portfolio (which helped!).

Last week, at the very last minute, I hammered out my portfolio in three days. I turned it in on the morning of the 14th and later that day we had heard back the results. Here is what it said in my letter:

"It is my pleasure to inform you that you have passed the review with high commendation from the faculty. Your portfolio was one of the few to have been selected as a finalist for the faculty's 2010-2011 Outstanding Portfolio Award, the premier design award of the core design sequence."

So, pretty awesome eh!? I'm very honored and excited about this! I plan on posting my portfolio online, but need to figure out the best means to do that. Once I have figured that out I will be posting it here!