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 pick of 20 great illustrator, creator, and graphic design portfolio websites!
1. Stacey Uy
Stacey Uy personal portfolio website - click on the image to visit website
2. Dominic Flask
Brand and product illustration portfolio example
3. Tim Householter
Tim Householter’s portfolio website
4. Jamie Bartlett
Jamie Bartlett’s graphic design portfolio
5. Ilana Griffo
Illustrator and graphic designer portfolio website
6. Kelly Romanaldi
Kelly’s freelance graphic design portfolio
7. Alex Coven
Graphic design, developer, and lettering portfolio website
8. Ismael Barry
Product design portfolio example
9. Brave the Woods
Husband and wide design and illustration studio
10 Melanie Da Veid
UX designer and art direction portfolio example
11. Jon Brommet
Jon Brommet’s portfolio website
12. Lotta Nieminen Studio
Feminine and delicate graphic design portfolio example
13. Adam Sandoval
Bright and bold portfolio example
14. Frederique Matti
Dark portfolio website example
15. Tiffany Wu
Clean and minimalist portfolio example
16. Alice Lee
Alice Lee’s illustration portfolio website
17. Sören Selleslagh
Illustration and animation portfolio website example
18. Steve Wolf Designs
Fullscreen graphic design and branding portfolio
19. Good Form Design
Colorful portfolio example
20. Neil Spurgeon
Minimalist and clean product designer portfolio example.
21. Chelsea Rodomista
Three column grid portfolio example with a welcome page
22. The Digital Artisans
Masonry style two column portfolio example
23. Zach Roszczewski
Clan and functional portfolio example
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 contact page
- 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.