You will apply online by submitting a digital portfolio, which you will upload via the application portal along with your application. Your portfolio should give us the best possible impression of your conceptual and creative, artistic and design, and technical and craftsmanship skills. We expect approximately 20 examples of your work in the techniques and media of your choice (e.g., drawing, painting, photography, collage, or even sculptures and 3D objects). It is important to us that your work gives us an impression of how you perceive your environment, what themes you explore, where you find ideas, and how you develop them further. For this reason, we welcome sketchbooks, development studies, or storyboards that reveal your working or thought process. We value a diversity of ideas and originality that reveal a distinctive artistic voice.

Of course, the quality of a piece can also lie in the precise observation, reproduction, or creative interpretation of a subject (nature studies, portrait and figure drawings, animal studies, etc.). In such cases, a piece may stand out due to its graphic and spatial composition, an interesting pictorial structure, or the use of color, for example.

Choose themes, subjects, and techniques that do not overwhelm you and that, as much as possible, highlight your strengths and reflect your interests. But also keep in mind that drawings based on reference images (magazines, manga, etc.) may reveal something about your interests, but little about your talent as a designer.

Submitted photographic or digital works should also be based on compelling ideas. The use of technical tools alone is no guarantee of creative quality. We recommend that you evaluate your work self-critically.

Procedure: 

1. Digitize your work and documents.
2. Include an informal statement confirming that you are the sole author of the work.
3. Please combine all your work and documents into a single PDF file and name it as described below.
4. Upload this PDF file as part of your application on the THA application portal.
5. Once the upload is complete, you can view your application with the PDF file on the university portal.

 

Summary:

The digital portfolio shows us your work (or scans or photos) and thus replaces a physical portfolio. It consists of a single PDF file containing: 

 

• about 20 samples of your work

  (sketch pages from sketchbooks or photos of, for example, three-dimensional works)

• relevant transcript(s)
• a tabular resume

• an informal confirmation of your authorship of the submitted work

   

When compiling your portfolio, ensure that all image files have a uniform final size and a sufficiently high resolution. To ensure we can always associate the PDF file with you, it is very important to name the files correctly! The file size of the digital portfolio should not exceed 30 MB if possible.

Please name your PDF file:

LastName_FirstName_ApplicationPortfolio_KD_2026.pdf

 

Please note that we unfortunately must reject submissions that do not comply with these guidelines.

 

One more tip regarding submission:

Uploads tend to spike just before the application deadline, which can lead to bottlenecks and delays. You’ll save yourself—and us—some stress if you upload your portfolio a little earlier…