Fine Arts Majors (choose one):

• Make a self-portrait in charcoal or pencil. It must be created by looking in a mirror – not by copying a photograph.
• Draw one of your hands in pencil.
• Make a drawing or painting in the style of Picasso’s 1911-12 painting Ma Jolie. It can be in pencil or in color. (Ma Jolie {My Pretty Girl} was a popular song sung at a club in Paris that Picasso frequented. That may be why he included a treble clef and the song’s title.)
• For an image of Ma Jolie, see the following link: Image

Illustration Majors (choose one):

• Illustrate passages from The Little Prince. Include three or four images representing different scenes from the story.
• Create an illustration to be included in an advertisement for a soft drink and make an illustration for a poster for your favorite band (you do not have to include the lettering).
• Illustrate a scene from a major historical event.
• Create and illustrate a greeting card, including its text.

Fashion Design Majors:

• One page essay that indicates your favorite brand and why.
• After choosing your favorite brand, create a project that contains: A mood board to create a new concept for that brand and then design a “Capsule” collection with the following conditions:

(“Capsule” refers to a collection that contains varying essential and commercial pieces that do not go out of style with the main objective of being practical. It must contain pants, skirts, dresses, blouses, shirts, coats, jackets to be complemented with pieces of the season).

• A minimum of 5 sets of clothes or “outfits” (for women, men or neutral). The 5 outfits must be illustrated by hand or mixed media and presented all on an A3 page. (This will not be required since the portfolios are delivered digitally via SlideRoom) with the name of the collection, your name and the name of the chosen brand.

The outfits can be of the following categories:

• Ready to Wear
• Street wear
• Haute Couture
• Conceptual
• Sportswear

Interior Design Majors:

Create a floor plan in 1⁄4 inch scale for a large, single-story residence with no basement.

You may draw this by hand, using an ink-roller pen or you may use one of the online drafting programs. There are a number of free programs on the web from which you can choose. An example is shown in the link below.
Your floor plan should Include:

• Living Room
• Entrance Hall
• Dining Room
• Kitchen
• Pantry
• Laundry Room
• 4 Bedrooms (a Master Bedroom; one Guest Room; a room for a young child and one for a teenager — each with a Full Bathroom) • Also include: a Half- bath (i.e., only a sink and a commode) that is convenient for guests when entertaining
• Home Office
• Two-Car Garage and
• Utility/Storage Room.

Show the position of all furnishings plus amenities (sinks, bathtubs, commodes, etc.) Be mindful of the flow and efficiency of the layout as well as safety.

Also show the position of utilities (E.g. central air-conditioning units and air handlers, water and heating systems (if on the roof, simply state that in a note on the drawing). Do not try to show the position of window A/C units.

Then select pictures of the furnishing and fixtures that you would choose for this home, as well as pictures of your choices of materials for floors, wallpapers and/or paint colors, etc. Paste these pictures on as many sheets of paper as you need, but none larger than 18 x 24 inches.

Here is a link to a free online drafting program. You will find that there are several others. Choose the one with witch you feel most comfortable. If you chose to draw your floor plan by hand, you may find the following drawing aids helpful. They are usually available in a good art supply store, but if not, they can be ordered online. Amazon.com sells them and shows pictures of them as well.

• A T-Square and a Triangle
• A Scale Ruler. (This will make it easy for you to calculate and draw rooms and walls to scale.)
• An Architects and Builder’s template (this is an inexpensive plastic sheet with cut-out spaces from which you can quickly and accurately outline the shapes of sinks, tubs, cabinets, tables, door swings, etc. in scale.

Communications Design Majors (choose one):

• Design a poster for a concert or feature film;
• Design a homepage for your own website;
• Design a logo for a restaurant or a clothing store;
• Submit six photographs that could be used to illustrate the cover story of a popular magazine. (You can choose a different magazine for each photo or shoot them all for the same publication.)
• Create a story-board for a 30-second TV advertisement for either a car or for perfume.

Photography Majors (choose one):

• Submit a minimum of eight photographs, at least two of which are black and white: Include a photographic self-portrait. Then create a series of photos that tell a story; it can be about a historical or current event, a book or article you have read, something important from your own life or pure fantasy. Use your imagination – you have a lot of latitude in choosing a topic.
• Submit a minimum of eight photographs, at least two of which are black and white: Include a posed portrait taken with artificial lighting; a still-life; a landscape; a city-scape; a photo of all or part of a piece of machinery and a photo you might take if you were a news photographer covering a story.
• Photos must be no smaller than 8” x 10”.

Fashion Marketing and Communications Majors:

Neither a portfolio nor section one of The CHAVÓN Challenge is required, but you must complete the following requirements.

Merchandising & Product Retail: Development of a pop-up store with a promotional character in response to seasonality.

• Select the brand
• Display the conceptualization of the pop-up store through a mood board
• Define the target audience: sex, age range, socioeconomic status and lifestyle
• Identify the store format and location:
  • Premises
  • Container
  • Kiosk
• Design the pop-up store 
• Define and breakdown the budget 
• Propose and justify the brand experience 

STYLIST: Fashion editorial development addressing the preproduction, production and postproduction process

• Select the brand and the magazine
• Identify market and consumer trends 
• Present the headline and inspiration
• Work the photographic shooting:
  • From 3 to 5 photographs 
  • Add the collaborations of Styling, Photography, Model, etc.
• Create the mock-up of the fashion editorial, including:
  • Headline
  • Inspiration
  • Photo shooting accompanied by collaborations

FASHION JOURNALIST: Development of interview with local or international emerging designer

• Select the fashion designer 
• Study the fashion designer 
• Define the purpose of the interview 
• Build the questionnaire proposal:
  • Open questions 
  • 10 to 15 questions
• Conduct and complete the interview face-to-face or by videoconference

Diagram the interview including brief biography and photography

Film Majors:

Film majors are not required to submit The CHAVÓN Challenge. Applicants to this program will be evaluated on the basis of their academic records, interview, portfolio, letter of intent and essay.