50 Inspiring Portfolio Designs

Posted by Gisele Muller on Feb 1, 2010 | 52 Comments

We are always looking for inspiration, specially when it comes to web design. We just can’t get tired of browsing around websites to check out layouts, colors, typography, styles and everything else that a cool site can offer. With this selection, I will show you 50 inspiring portfolio designs. Some of them you probably already know, others are new – some are minimalist, others are colorful and full of elements. The idea here is to show different ways to show your work online. As we can find lots of interesting portfolios out there, making a selection is a bit tough, so let me know if you want to see more of them…I’m pretty sure that we have enough material for 4 or 5 collections! And don’t forget to leave a comment with your portfolio.

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50 comments

Steve
February 1, 2010
Definitely some nice inspiring designs amongst this roundup.
Also spotted a few template based sites too, so perhaps not so inspiring there.
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BigM75
February 1, 2010
all are good works, to be inspired
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jb
February 1, 2010
The portfolio of Sean M Everett isn’t terribly inspiring. It’s nice and all, and a pretty bland use of the Shapeshifter template from ThemeForest.
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adelacreative
February 1, 2010
Always nice to see fresh inspiring designs and different visions of presenting portfolios!

adelacreative.com
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Pete Hawkins
February 1, 2010
I can’t believe you listed:
http://www.seanmeverett.com/

This site is a wordpress template called shape shifter.
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Cookie Labs
February 1, 2010
Notorious Design is really nice…
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Ian Devlin
February 1, 2010
Many thanks for the mention!

Loving some of the other sites too.
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Aaron Moody
February 1, 2010
Great collection here
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javo
February 1, 2010
Muchisimas gracias por la mension, y por los cientos de aportes muy creativos, que día a día nos comparten, saludos desde Bolivia.
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Jordan Walker
February 1, 2010
All very nice and well designed.
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Simon Carr
February 1, 2010
Very nice collection. I was hoping to get some work done this morning – but now I’m going to have to click thru all these portfolios!
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Justin
February 1, 2010
Some of the sites are really nice, interesting though how a lot of their showcased work doesn’t meet the same bar. Content… content… content.
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Robin Koorn
February 1, 2010
Great sites!
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Monika Leigh Norcross
February 1, 2010
I love posts with list like these. It’s like one-stop inspiration shopping. It’s lists like these that give me ideas about my own site.

Great list.
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starr
February 1, 2010
These are stunnning. Top selection. I’m totally inspired
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New York Web Design
February 1, 2010
Wow – what inspiration and thank you for sharing! What great talent that is presented here
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Michael Locke
February 1, 2010
Very inspiring. Nice list. Someone touched on how the work of some of these designers don’t meet the same bar as their portfolio site. I think that’s very common in this industry. Many times clients will end up taking over and destroying the creative direction of a project. Happens all the time.
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Jason Carlin
February 2, 2010
That suki.co.il site looks a little too inspired by metalabdesign.com to me… Like.. right down to the slogan (“We make interfaces” vs “We design interfaces”).

Highly questionable…
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- Paul Demers
  February 3, 2010
  I was just going to post the exact same comment… Hmmmm. The best part of this blatant ripoff is that they are pulling javascript right from the Metalab servers. The nerve!
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Alex Flueras
February 2, 2010
Excellent list, great inspiration. Thanks for sharing.
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Rakesh Suryavardhan
February 2, 2010
Amazing …awesome ..lovely…and inspiring.
Really cool..thanks
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blackskulls
February 2, 2010
thanks
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Daniel Regan
February 2, 2010
Awesome list, I’m very happy to be highlighted on it. Thank you!
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Chris Reihe
February 2, 2010
This is some really great work! Thanks for the post! Check out http://www.chrisreihe.com for another killer portfolio site!
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John
February 2, 2010
Some exceptional designs on here. A lot of them look like a whole lot of other stuff out there though…
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Poonit Patel
February 3, 2010
Nice designs… visited most of them. Thanks very much for this post.
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Cory
February 3, 2010
Awesome collection. Thanks for the inspiration.
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dp
February 3, 2010
I think you watered down the good ones by posting so many. (Just like in a personal portfolio, only show your best work)

So it goes -dp
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eric
February 5, 2010
Some real gems and some that are very template-like or, as stated already by others, at least very much inspired by other websites.

Still, nice collection!
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Shikeb Ali
February 6, 2010
few are inspiring but few were not inspiring at all… the first two inspired me they did something different… with their navigational menu’s.

anyways… it was good effort.
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Johnny
February 9, 2010
Nice roundup, I love adaptd, its beautiful
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Maude
February 9, 2010
There’s really nice design (and color mix) up there ! Thanks for sharing !
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Apeeples
February 9, 2010
Awesome…
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Brad
February 18, 2010
Thanks for the feature

Great list you have there.
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Alison Rowan
February 23, 2010
Great list! Definitely got me thinking some more about how I want to do my own portfolio site. I must say, I’m a huge fan of Digital Mash’s Hero for Hire tagline. Brilliant!
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cruiser
March 18, 2010
very good,tks for you share.
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joleq
March 23, 2010
Check out this http://grafiki.info – crazy design
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SEO
April 19, 2010
Very good designs, great to get ideas from. Thank you!
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vuitton
August 10, 2010
very good,tks for you share.
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Yasser Mubarak
October 9, 2010
Very inspired..
I have free fresh mind ready to Design..
Thanks,
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Synch Media
August 5, 2011
Thank you so much for the mention!
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Jack Davis
August 18, 2011
Quality list, there are a few templates here though which is not so quality…
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Mathew
October 12, 2011
Great article!!!

I would offer you to add one more site
http://www.moontroops.com
We just discussed that it looks perfect! Simple but looks really good.
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Izrada sajtova
December 23, 2011
Very good designs, nice list
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κατασκευη ιστοσελιδων
January 12, 2012
very nice collection! Thanks!
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Web Design Leeds
January 13, 2012
Thanks for sharing such a nice collection, some of the websites are really nice.
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octavian
April 21, 2012
Check out this London Creative Agency
http://londoncreativerabbits.co.uk
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Harrys Pourouzidis
May 2, 2012
Hello there Giselle.

Thank you for the nice article and beautiful links you shared. I’ve recently launched my website portfolio too. Here is a link if you wanna take a look at it http://www.pourouz.com . Any opinions, comments, critique is welcome. Take care and keep up the good work.
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Sana
August 27, 2012
Nice collection and thnx for sharing
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Michele
October 2, 2012
Hi there, I’ve been reading this page too. My favorite is David Hellmann’s. Hope you like mine as well.
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