Glasgow Ad School / portfolio school / intake one
Learn tohave ideasfor a living.
An intensive 12 week portfolio school in Glasgow for anyone who wants to write and make ads. Real briefs with real feedback. You don't need a degree, a year off or eight grand, just two evenings a week. And some paper. And a pen.
What this actually is
A portfolio school. You come in with a head full of half ideas and you leave with a book of work you can put in front of a creative director.
It's for the aspiring creatives, the career changers, the self-taught, and the people this industry doesn't usually find. Getting in has always been hard, and the usual routes cost a lot. This is another way in.
It isn't a degree. There are no essays, no module codes, and nobody will make you write a reflective log.
Every 45 minutes you get a new brief. Chewing gum, a holiday somewhere, a charity. You have the idea, people who make ads for a living pull it apart, and then the next brief lands. Do that for 12 weeks and you get quick.
think faster. make better work.
The creative test
This is how you get in. Ten odd questions. You pick five and answer them however you like. Write it, draw it, photograph it, stick it together with Pritt.
We're not marking spelling. We're looking for the answer nobody else thought of.
No. 01
How met Why. What happened to Which?
Tell us the story. Any format.
No. 02
Why you should never underestimate a handsome bear
One page. Make the case.
No. 07
Rename rain
Glasgow has plenty of it. It could at least have a better name.
The wall
This is where student work goes. The first intake hasn't finished yet, so for now it's a wall and a bit of tape.
Your work could be here. Currently it's just this bit of tape.