50 Inspiring Portfolio Designs
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.
Portfolio – Clarideaz
Notorious Design
wedesignwise
lairdesign
Sarah Longnecker
Creative State
colagene
Matt Hamm
lecaid
Rikcat Industries
alexswanson.net
Second And Park
designme
Josh Puckett – 55eleven
spoongraphics
Creative State
ian devlin
Drumroll
Sean M Everett
Phureal
Justin M. Maller
enila.fr
chris woods
Marc Anton Dahmen
Rob Young
Les Illustrations de Lapin
madelikeme
David Hellmann
adaptd
eddidit
bcandullo
Vincent Mazza
xgraphica
Adhemas Batista
crisvector.com
digitalmash
ftdesigner
Work at Play
mediaflex
thetoke
Kay Times Two
STPo
cameronmoll
simply creative
HALO Creative Agency
moonbeam illustrations
Suki
art4web
Synch Media
Riot Industries
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Feb 1, 2010
Definitely some nice inspiring designs amongst this roundup.
Also spotted a few template based sites too, so perhaps not so inspiring there.
Feb 1, 2010
all are good works, to be inspired
Feb 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.
Feb 1, 2010
Always nice to see fresh inspiring designs and different visions of presenting portfolios!
adelacreative.com
Feb 1, 2010
I can’t believe you listed:
http://www.seanmeverett.com/
This site is a wordpress template called shape shifter.
Feb 1, 2010
Notorious Design is really nice…
Feb 1, 2010
Many thanks for the mention!
Loving some of the other sites too.
Feb 1, 2010
Great collection here
Feb 1, 2010
Muchisimas gracias por la mension, y por los cientos de aportes muy creativos, que día a día nos comparten, saludos desde Bolivia.
Feb 1, 2010
All very nice and well designed.
Feb 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!
Feb 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.
Feb 1, 2010
Great sites!
Feb 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.
Feb 1, 2010
These are stunnning. Top selection. I’m totally inspired
Feb 1, 2010
Wow – what inspiration and thank you for sharing! What great talent that is presented here
Feb 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.
Feb 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…
Feb 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!
Feb 2, 2010
Excellent list, great inspiration. Thanks for sharing.
Feb 2, 2010
Amazing …awesome ..lovely…and inspiring.
Really cool..thanks
Feb 2, 2010
thanks
Feb 2, 2010
Awesome list, I’m very happy to be highlighted on it. Thank you!
Feb 2, 2010
This is some really great work! Thanks for the post! Check out http://www.chrisreihe.com for another killer portfolio site!
Feb 2, 2010
Some exceptional designs on here. A lot of them look like a whole lot of other stuff out there though…
Feb 3, 2010
Nice designs… visited most of them. Thanks very much for this post.
Feb 3, 2010
Awesome collection. Thanks for the inspiration.
Feb 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
Feb 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!
Feb 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.
Feb 9, 2010
Nice roundup, I love adaptd, its beautiful
Feb 9, 2010
There’s really nice design (and color mix) up there ! Thanks for sharing !
Feb 9, 2010
Awesome…
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Feb 18, 2010
Thanks for the feature
Great list you have there.
Feb 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!
Mar 18, 2010
very good,tks for you share.
Mar 23, 2010
Check out this http://grafiki.info – crazy design
Apr 19, 2010
Very good designs, great to get ideas from. Thank you!
Aug 10, 2010
very good,tks for you share.
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