Design at York

Applying to the Bachelor of Design program at York University? Here are the requirements for a successful Supplementary Application:

Deadline: February 3, 2026

Components:
1. Portfolio + Sketchbook
2. Questionnaire

Your portfolio should include 10-12 samples of Original Work and 8-10 pages of your Sketchbook that best reflect your design thinking and process.

You will answer questions in the Questionnaire that show us who you are, what motivates you, and why you are excited about the program.

Good luck!

This Saturday is National Portfolio Day at York University! 🎉

Thinking about applying to the Bachelors of Design program? Now is the perfect opportunity to have your portfolio reviewed by our design faculty and receive advice on how to stand out in your application.

Fall Campus Day is this Saturday, October 25th! 🍂

Visit our design studios and production facilities, chat with students, and have your portfolio reviewed by design professors for your application to our Honours Bachelor of Design program.

Fall Campus Day is this Saturday, October 25th! 🍂

Visit our design studios and production facilities, chat with students, and have your portfolio reviewed by design professors for your application to our Honours Bachelor of Design program.

A huge congratulations to our talented York University Design students and recent grads recognized for their outstanding work and creative vision! 🏆

• Ashley Loyst, Honourable Mention for Logo Design
• Lili Crosby, Honourable Mention for UX Design
• Opal P., Honourable Mention for Information Design
• Jocelyn Zin, Honourable Mention for UX Design
• Daniel Santos, Honourable Mention for Information Design
• Thanh Dang, Honourable Mention for Typography (Not Shown)

We’re thrilled to celebrate Shaheer Saif, co-recipient of this year’s RGD Student Award for Editorial Design! 🏆

The intended audience for this project includes anthropologists, art directors and graphic designers. The book embodies C. Nadia Seremetakis’s essay Memory of the Senses through material and visual form. The essay explores how sensory memory—such as the taste of a vanished Greek peach—carries cultural and historical weight. As global markets displace local foods and traditions, sensory experiences fragment, erasing connections between identity, memory and place. The Greek concept of nostalgia captures this embodied longing, turning sensory encounters into sites of resistance and continuity. To reflect these ideas, the book is printed on Kozuke White 44g Japanese paper, whose rough texture and translucency evoke memory’s ephemeral yet layered quality. ABC Synt, a monospaced typeface from Dinamo, was chosen for academic clarity and structural rigidity. Fully justified text within vertical rectangles mirrors fragmentation and convergence, while curated images and ornaments extend the essay’s themes of loss, preservation and cultural memory.