If you’re a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, brand designer, logo designer, or any other digital designer you must be here because you need a proper portfolio website to showcase your work and get your dream clients. But how should a proper design portfolio look?
There are so many layouts, color schemes, styles to choose from that it can get really overwhelming really fast.
Often looking at other graphic designer portfolio websites can be helpful when deciding on how you want your own portfolio website to look.
By looking at graphic design portfolio websites created by other fellow creatives, you can better understand what works and what doesn’t work for you. You can take note of how other designers choose to showcase their work. How they arrange important information and what should be included in a good portfolio website.
So let yourself get inspired by out
1. Stacey Uy
![Graphic design and illustration portfolio with a shop and blog page.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1-graphic-design-illustration-portfolio.jpg)
2. Dominic Flask
![Clean and minimal brand and product illustration portfolio website example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2-brand-and-product-illustration-portfolio.jpg)
3. Tim Householter
![Simple and elegant portfolio website example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/3-graphic-design-portfolio-website-example.jpg)
4. Jamie Bartlett
![An example of a well made graphic designer portfolio website by Jamie Bartlett Designs.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/4-graphic-design-lettering-portfolio-website.jpg)
5. Ilana Griffo
![An example of a good illustrator and designer portfolio website.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/5-illustrator-designer-personal-portfolio.jpg)
6. Kelly Romanaldi
![Clean portfolio website example with side navigation and multi language option.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6-freelance-illustrator-graphic-designer-portfolio-example.jpg)
7. Alex Coven
![Award winning portfolio website design example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/7-freelance-designer-personal-portfolio.jpg)
8. Ismael Barry
![Product designer personal portfolio website example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/8-product-designer-portfolio-website.jpg)
9. Brave the Woods
![Colorful and fun illustration portfolio website example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/9-design-and-illustration-portfolio-example.jpg)
10 Melanie Da Veid
![Bold and bright portfolio website example for inspiration.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/10-ux-design-and-art-direction-portfolio-example.jpg)
11. Jon Brommet
![Simple and functional graphic design portfolio example with large images.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/11-grapgic-designer-portfolio-website.jpg)
12. Lotta Nieminen Studio
![An example of a very elegant and feminine graphic design and illustration portfolio website.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/12-professional-feminine-graphic-design-portfolio-website.jpg)
13. Adam Sandoval
![Bright and bold graphic design and illustration portfolio example with full screen images.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/13-creative-graphic-designer-portfolio-example.jpg)
14. Frederique Matti
![An example of a dark freelance portfolio website.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/14-freelance-illustrator-and-designer-portfolio-website.jpg)
15. Tiffany Wu
![Clean and simple portfolio website example with lots of white space.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/15-ux-designer-portfolio-website-example.jpg)
16. Alice Lee
![Alice Lee's illustration portfolio website with a clean website navigation.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/16-illustrator-portfolio-website-example.jpg)
17. Sören Selleslagh
![Illustration and animation portfolio with a gray background color.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/17-animator-portfolio-website-example.jpg)
18. Steve Wolf Designs
![Fullscreen graphic designer portfolio example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/18-graphic-design-portfolio.jpg)
19. Good Form Design
![Colorful, retro inspired graphic design portfolio example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20-vintage-graphic-designer-portfolio-website.jpg)
20. Neil Spurgeon
![Minimalist, right aligned product design portfolio example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/19-produsct-designer-portfolio-example.jpg)
21. Chelsea Rodomista
![Three column grid based portfolio layout example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/21-freelnace-graphic-designer-personal-portfolio-example.jpg)
22. The Digital Artisans
![Elegant and delicate portfolio website example.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/22-digital-artisan-portfolio-example.jpg)
23. Zach Roszczewski
![Simple and functionals graphic design portfolio.](https://colormelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23-graphic-design-portfolio-website-example.jpg)
What we learned from these graphic designer portfolio examples
After looking at all these beautiful graphic designer portfolio websites, we quickly spotted some similarities that most of these portfolio examples have.
Great graphic design portfolio websites have:
- their best work front and center
- clean and simple design with focus on portfolio work
- a clear introduction telling the visitors who the owner is and what he/she does
- an
esily reachable contactpage links to other social media (Instagram, Dribbble, Facebook)
We also noticed that the more successful the designer, the cleaner and simpler their portfolio website looks.
This can be a hard pill to swallow for most beginner graphic designers since they tend to try and make their website look “personal” and “purple because that’s my favorite color”. But the goal of a good portfolio website is to make it look professional and easy to use for your potential clients without distracting them from the most important part – your work and contact info.
We hope that these examples gave you some great ideas for your own graphic design portfolio.
Which portfolio did you like best? Do you have any other great graphic design portfolio examples? Share them in the comments – we would love to see!
Thank you for the feature 🙂