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50 Excellent Designer Portfolio Sites

One of the first posts on DesignM.ag was 101 Awesome Portfolio Sites, which drew an excellent response from readers. Many of the current readers/subscribers weren’t around at that point, so if you enjoy seeing examples of excellent portfolio sites I encourage you to take a look.

In the past few months I’ve seen a number of outstanding portfolio sites that weren’t included in that post, so I put together this collection of another 50.

UPDATE: We recently launched a gallery dedicated to showcasing the best portfolio sites – Folio Focus.

Branded07

Astuteo

Two December

Digital Mash

Matt Dempsey

Design Sensory

Vebbu

Web Media Alliance

89Bytes

Gourami Design

Usman Group

Just.dot

Theatre Website Services

Hambo Development

Jay Hafling

Clear Media

Dumbwaiter Design

BLK+MTN

Emerge & Bloom

MonCarton

Furthersite Website Solutions

AURUM3

Twenty3design

Jamison Banham

Pink Cactus

Clay Ant

Taufiq Ridha

Ryan Scherf

Bainbridge Studios

rzmota

MitchDesigns

Kerry Nehil

Soula

Andrea Cima Serniotti

Ploc Media

phunkN CREATIVE

Alex Coleman

Hutchhouse

Mediocore

Ross Interactive

Agnarson

Alex Cohaniuc

Gert-Jan Bosch

Soh Tanaka

leDzuc

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54 Responses from Readers

Dainis Graveris December 9th, 2008

excellent collection, every portfolio site has unique taste and feel – nice inspiration.

Irene Demetri December 9th, 2008

once again a very inspiring list.

Rishi Luchun December 9th, 2008

Some nicely designed sites here.

Brian G December 9th, 2008

This is a nice little cross section, but none of them can still hold a candle to the two year old OkayDave.com – Dave Werner’s Portfolio from 2006.

joyoge designers' bookmark December 9th, 2008

very nice inspiring list thanks..

Amber Weinberg December 9th, 2008

Nice list, I’m almost ashamed of my own site lol.

lisa December 9th, 2008

many are nice but it would be nice to see all custom, not some wp templates in here

Steven Snell December 9th, 2008

Lisa,
I’m not aware of any that are un-customized WP themes. That’s not to say that none of them are, there are so many themes I can’t keep up.

Danh ba web 2.0 December 10th, 2008

Great collection. Thanks you very much !

Sean McCambridge December 11th, 2008

Good mix of inspiring sites. Could I get some honest criticism of my own site from anyone reading this? Thanks! Twitter: @mccambridge

Jacob Gube December 15th, 2008

Excellent selection of porfolio designs here!

Greg Sanders December 16th, 2008

Nice selection !!
While workin’ on my own folio i found a great place dedicated to folios : http://www.foliostars.net
Great for inspiration too…

agi December 16th, 2008

some nice sites, but really the title should have read “50 excellent wordpress portfolio sites” as they all look the same.

sguyot December 16th, 2008

Very impressive list, showing a wide range of thought and as well as the limitations of what we expect web sites to look like.

xyphen December 16th, 2008

Nice list, some really great sites. Especially Digital Mash, Ploc Media, Matt Dempsey. All inspiring.

Sinisa December 17th, 2008

Many thanks for featuring our site!!!

Shannon Snow December 19th, 2008

Excellent collection. I love seeing how different everyone’s site is and how many unique things people come up with, great for inspiration.

Jamison Banham January 1st, 2009

Thanks for the feature, great to be put with other such good websites :)

rezolutions January 1st, 2009

Excellent for inpiration!! Thanks…

Steven Hambleton January 14th, 2009

Thanks for featuring Hambo Development :)

Naturally it is built with ExpressionEngine.

Kerry January 29th, 2009

Thanks for the feature!

Greg Althoff February 16th, 2009

Thanks for posting us as a Top 50!

chow.

Katie Souders March 24th, 2009

very impressive list, however you should consider adding illustrator and designer Kevin Cornell’s website, its fabulously designed. http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk

Marcelo Aesse March 28th, 2009

Very good!!! Impressive. Excellent taste.

Umang April 15th, 2009

wow!

Paul July 24th, 2009

Thanks, I like Hutch House, the giraffes are clever. But almost everything else looks like the same tired Web 2.0 design.

@Dave G – thanks for the link to Dave Werners site, it’s the best portfolio I can think of. His videos are way ahead of the game!

Riley Briggs August 18th, 2009

I have my portfolio on my website http://rileyjbriggs.com/. hopefully it will be as good as these in a few years. what do you guys think?

Benjamin David August 28th, 2009

Hi and thanks for talking about Two December ! Great selection by the way

Martin Sanders August 30th, 2009

While an old post listed sites still look fresh, inspiring selection ;)

Derek Kimball November 20th, 2009

Love the Phunk N’ Creative site. All he needs is a blog. The “Ploc Media” site is also very nice and clean. Thanks for the collection.

Google Logo December 9th, 2009

Absolutely great list.
Serves for a great deal of inspiration.

Michael Mase January 18th, 2010

Just redesigned my portfolio: masedesign.com

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