50 Inspirational & Creative Personal Portfolio Websites

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A few months ago we featured Web Design Agency homepages. However, many designers prefer to work alone, and their portfolios are also worth checking out. Thus, here are 50 individual creative portfolios, which will knock your socks off!

Keeping in mind that most agency sites are built on a “Logo – Tagline – Best Work – Contact Info” basis, we were curious to see if this formula would work as well for freelance designers as it does for web design agencies.

Yes, it works sometimes, and you can see it from the examples featured in this article, but it seems, as expected, the main focus of most portfolio sites is to catch visitor’s attention, introduce the designer and then invite readers to get deeper into the portfolio in order to see the best works and know more about the designer, his/her skills, awards and experience.

A lot of designers prefer one-page portfolios; some designers put personal photos on their sites; many of those whose websites are listed below are fans of minimal design, and so on. Some of the other features and trends available on designer portfolios are whitespace, illustrations, big background images, flat design, big typography and geometric shapes. As for colors, white, gray and emerald seem to be very popular.

And if you believe reading is not enough to understand what an inspirational portfolio site is, please take a look at the following examples:

Marc Thomas

The web design inspiration portfolio of Marc Thomas

David Hakkert

example creative portfolio of designer David Hakkert

Pierrick Calvez

The web design inspiration portfolio of Pierrick Calvez

Joshua James

example creative portfolio of designer Joshua James

Tyler Finck

The web design inspiration portfolio of Tyler Finck

Matthew D. Williams

example creative portfolio of designer Matthew D. Williams

Oliver Brux

The web design inspiration portfolio of Oliver Brux

Sam Markiewicz

example creative portfolio of designer Sam Markiewicz

Daryl Thornnhill

The web design inspiration portfolio of Daryl Thornnhill

Cody Sielawa

example creative portfolio of designer Cody Sielawa

Derek Boateng

The web design inspiration portfolio of Derek Boateng

GregSuj

example creative portfolio of designer GregSuj

Daniele Petrarolo

The web design inspiration portfolio of Daniele Petrarolo

Nicolas Borreil

example creative portfolio of designer Nicolas Borreil

David Mcmenemy

The web design inspiration portfolio of David Mcmenemy

Matt Luckhurst

example creative portfolio of designer Matt Luckhurst

Oli Lisher

The web design inspiration portfolio of Oli Lisher

Mahédine Yahia

example creative portfolio of designer Mahédine Yahia

Fabien Cazals

The web design inspiration portfolio of Fabien Cazals

Adam Hartwig

example creative portfolio of designer Adam Hartwig

Jrutland

The web design inspiration portfolio of Jrutland

Amanda Cole

example creative portfolio of designer Amanda Cole

Ashley Farrand

The web design inspiration portfolio of Ashley Farrand

Àlex Catalan

example creative portfolio of designer Àlex Catalan

Jacob Heflin

The web design inspiration portfolio of Jacob Heflin

Jake Lee Haugen

example creative portfolio of designer Jake Lee Haugen

Daryl Brunsden

The web design inspiration portfolio of Daryl Brunsden

Martin Fletcher

example creative portfolio of designer Martin Fletcher

Caramel Budgie

The web design inspiration portfolio of Caramel Budgie

Justin Aguilar

example creative portfolio of designer Justin Aguilar

Yaron Schoen

The web design inspiration portfolio of Yaron Schoen

Erik Ford

example creative portfolio of designer Erik Ford

Andreas Knutsson

example creative portfolio of designer Andreas Knutsson

Maarten Teunis Hoogvliet

The web design inspiration portfolio of Maarten Teunis Hoogvliet

Nicolas Bessol

example creative portfolio of designer Nicolas Bessol

Armig Esfahani

The web design inspiration portfolio of Armig Esfahani

Beta Takaki

example creative portfolio of designer Beta Takaki

Mario Petrone

The web design inspiration portfolio of Mario Petrone

Audrey Brouir

example creative portfolio of designer Audrey Brouir

Kyle Thacker

The web design inspiration portfolio of Kyle Thacker

Eliot Slevin

example creative portfolio of designer Eliot Slevin

Simone Capano

The web design inspiration portfolio of Simone Capano

Florian J. Färber

example creative portfolio of designer Florian J. Färber

Bob Galmarini

The web design inspiration portfolio of Bob Galmarini

Takumi Kobayashi

example creative portfolio of designer Takumi Kobayashi

Nicolas Desle

The web design inspiration portfolio of Nicolas Desle

Ivo Mynttinen

example creative portfolio of designer Ivo Mynttinen

Cole Townsend

The web design inspiration portfolio of Cole Townsend

Davy Rudolph

example creative portfolio of designer Davy Rudolph

Anthony Goodwin

The web design inspiration portfolio of Anthony Goodwin

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Helen Bailey

Helen Bailey is a Marketing Assistant working at TemplateMonster. TM was the first company to offer website templates and now their collection includes CMS templates, eCommerce templates and other web page designs.

Comments

  • Awesome find Helen. Thank you!!!

  • This is a good collection of the simple & clean.

  • GoodGravey

    Wow, I viewed some of these sites on mobile (being too lazy to get on my laptop) and let me tell you some of them have mobile versions you don’t want to miss. Like Pierrick Calvez’s site used the rotation from portrait to landscape to transition into the site. Just creative beauty right there.

  • Michael Meininger

    I really like the masonry isotopes that are available for portfolios.

    Nice post author

  • Joe Rutland

    Thanks for the inclusion to a list with so many great designs, really humbled.

  • Peter

    Good collection…I like Armig Esfahani & Mario Petrone websites the most

  • Really helped me much to get an idea about my Portfolio Design

  • dermarkus

    Have you had a look on this one?

    http://www.markuskrammer.at/en/portfolio/