Portfolio sites are primarily intended to showcase the work of the designer, but they also provide an opportunity for potential clients to get to know more about the designer and to feel a personal connection.

Clients generally prefer to work with someone that they like personally, not just someone who has the technical skills to get the job done. Having an About Page that does an effective job of connecting with potential clients can go a long way towards having a steady flow of new work.

In this post we’ll take a look at 10 examples of About Pages from designer portfolio sites.

Mr. Joe Payton
Joe Payton’s About Page includes illustrations to go along with the different stages of his bio.

Last year we published a few posts that focused on digital paintings, and we figured it was time to do a follow up with more items for your inspiration. In this post you’ll find 25 digital paintings done by various artists from around the world. To see the source, click on the images.

For more on digital painting please see:

• 40 Incredible Digital Painting Portraits
• 40 Amazing Digital Painting Portraits – Part II
• 25 Digital Painting Tutorials
• 25 Speed Painting Videos

Alicia

Photography is a favorite source of inspiration and a hobby of many designers. In this post I’d like to showcase a collection of photos from various photographers that have captured storms.

Photo credit: Scott Butner

E-commerce websites often have the reputation of being unattractive or poorly designed. In this post we’ll show that this is not always the case. Here you’ll find 30 sites for your own e-commerce design inspiration.

The Gingerbread Construction Company

If you’re working on a blog design for yourself or for a client it can be helpful to observe well-designed blogs to get some inspiration. In this post we’ll feature 25 beautifully-designed blogs. The showcase includes blogs of all different styles.

Soh Tanaka

Every once in a while we showcase various works of typography and text effects for your design inspiration. In today’s post we have 30 items to feature, covering a wide variety in types and styles of design.

You may also be interested in our previous showcases:

• Typography Inspiration Showcase
• 30 Examples of Inspirational Typography
• Showcase of Typography and Lighting Effects

Last week we published a showcase of clever and creative logos. Today we’re again focusing on logo design, but this time specifically on logos that are type-based. Here you’ll see 25 quality logo designs heavily or exclusively on type and text.

Indulge

Last year we published a post 50 Clever, Creative Logos that drew a great response from readers. Today we follow that up with this collection of 30 more logos for your inspiration. The logos shown here display excellent creativity from the designer, and I think they will be of great interest to lovers of logo design.

World Refuge

Typography is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of web and graphic design. A current trend in web design is to use oversized text, often in headers. In this post we’ll showcase 30 websites that make excellent use of big, beautiful typography.

Jon Brosseau

Portfolio sites for designers and photographers that need to showcase their best work and land new clients. The level of  creativity is often higher on portfolio sites as it would be on other types of sites, and Flash-based sites allow many designers to explore their creative ideas.

Recent improvements in the SEO capabilities of Flash, along with improved connection speeds of the average internet user, have made it more practical for designers to use Flash-based sites for their portfolio sites.

In this post we’ll showcase 25 Flash-based portfolios for your design inspiration, plus a few Flash portfolio templates.

Thom Bennett