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.
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excellent collection, every portfolio site has unique taste and feel – nice inspiration.
once again a very inspiring list.
Some nicely designed sites here.
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.
very nice inspiring list thanks..
Nice list, I’m almost ashamed of my own site lol.
many are nice but it would be nice to see all custom, not some wp templates in here
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.
Great collection. Thanks you very much !
Good mix of inspiring sites. Could I get some honest criticism of my own site from anyone reading this? Thanks! Twitter: @mccambridge
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Excellent selection of porfolio designs here!
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Nice selection !!
While workin’ on my own folio i found a great place dedicated to folios : http://www.foliostars.net
Great for inspiration too…
some nice sites, but really the title should have read “50 excellent wordpress portfolio sites” as they all look the same.
Very impressive list, showing a wide range of thought and as well as the limitations of what we expect web sites to look like.
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Nice list, some really great sites. Especially Digital Mash, Ploc Media, Matt Dempsey. All inspiring.
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Excellent collection. I love seeing how different everyone’s site is and how many unique things people come up with, great for inspiration.
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Thanks for the feature, great to be put with other such good websites 🙂
Excellent for inpiration!! Thanks…
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Thanks for featuring Hambo Development 🙂
Naturally it is built with ExpressionEngine.
Thanks for the feature!
Thanks for posting us as a Top 50!
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very impressive list, however you should consider adding illustrator and designer Kevin Cornell’s website, its fabulously designed. http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk
Very good!!! Impressive. Excellent taste.
wow!
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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!
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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?
Hi and thanks for talking about Two December ! Great selection by the way
While an old post listed sites still look fresh, inspiring selection 😉
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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.
Absolutely great list.
Serves for a great deal of inspiration.
Just redesigned my portfolio: masedesign.com
Very Nice!!!
If you need to create a Free Professional Website Portfolio, visit http://www.bleidu.com.
There are many choices to choose from for you online portfolio gallery.
Thanks.
Thanks for sharing this collection, this is very useful
Thanks for Posting such a great list.Trust me you guys been doing a great job and really inspire people to be creative and innovative.I am part of project execution team for a web designing company but i feel like to became a designer Now :-).you guys are that inspiring!
Great roundup guys! but I like http://www.fuseboxcreations.com better.
Have to say while some look great, I can’t help but notice more than a couple of those are from WordPress templates….
thanks.. nice one
Awsomee collection….I jus launched my personal portfolio.
Check it out ppl.
Tc
Nice post….
Nice collection, its a really inspirational 🙂
Great works, thanks for sharing.
Nice collection,thanks for sharing.god blesses you !!!
itis very usrful thank you very much !!!
Great list. You should also add “84 Colors”, it’s one of the best designed portfolio I have ever seen.
Thanks for posting these portfolios..creativedesigns,and unique designs..great..We get lot from this website..Thanks for sharing..continue this service
thanks.. nice one
Great design! very cool… if you are looking for web design and development website, The cheap and high quality websites.
Great design! very cool… if you are looking for web design and development website, The cheap and high quality websites.
Also a great portfolio:
http://elementic-interactions.com/
A really nice collection. You will also like this one :http://www.eatablegraphics.com/
nice list
excellent collection, every portfolio site has unique taste and feel – nice inspiration.
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Great works, thanks for sharing.
good post,thank you for sharing
Hi all! Great site very useful!
I really appreciate a good design and in fact, I recently visited a great user friendly website. Out There Interiors . Nice company too! They sell a variety of mirrored furniture . I just love the ease at which you can move around the site and easily view the different types of furniture including silver furniture . Perfect uncomplicated place to buy french furniture .
These designs are awesome.
nice work!!!
looking very professional.
why not u include a freshers portfolio. then this website also will help u out i.e. http://www.admecindia.co.in
Thanks.
ADMEC Multimedia Team
These are great designs thanks for the share!
Nice list! Hopefully http://www.billybarker.net will make the list one day. 🙂
This article inspired to strive more in creating better templates. Thanks for sharing this impressive compilation.
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I am impressed by the designs. Such creativity from impressive designers. Thanks for the post!
Great article!!
Creative and impressive these website might be but one fundamental question these website designer failed to answer – Does the user visit the website to see the skill of web designer, Or does the user visit website to find the information they need. They are graphic designer turned web designer. Heavy grapics, distracting grapichs, overly styled contents – sorry for disrespect but they are not my type.
Really awesome web portfolios up in this article.. They are good inspiration for my next website.
almost all of these are made by wordpress…. a free service for blogging that use templates, which 90% of these were made of with some modifications… how can u be a web designer and not make your own site on your own without the help of a self creating site
Nice portfolio http://www.grafik-webdesigner.cz
nice one……like it….
i like this one. bedezigns.freetzi.com
cool collection
thankyou, very useful collections.
Cool collection, thanks!
thank you,good post!
Such creativity from impressive designers. Thanks for the post!
nice collection.thanks for sharing.
Nice porftolio designs.
For cheap website designing visit xoberi studios.
Excellent Collection, Love this.
Thanks for sharing. 🙂
nice protfolio
That makes sense, I have been to himself that the more
Thanks for sharing, learned a lot.
nice list, very creative and cool designs. Can you please let me know how to include my website for this category.
wow. awesome collection, thanks
Thanks for a really good and well written article. Great tips and examples!
Excelents sites! thanks for sharing!!!
Excelents sites!
Awesome round up. Alot of very unique and inspirational websites here. Thanks for sharing!
nice collection.
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Nice! Very good ideas here!!! This site help me so much!
lots of good work here, though some of these pages are starting to get redesigned.. time for an update 🙂
Maybe you should have a look there : http://iworkwithpassion.com
It’s cool Portfolio from a graphic designer in Bordeaux.
I was really inspired by this post when I was planning my own portfolio site. After 4 long months, its finally done. Check it out at: http://www.redriot.ca. I hope I did justice to the beautiful sites that inspired it.
wow ! great portfolio by you thanks for sharing with us and waiting for your next post …..
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Wow I want to be a web desiner…So far these are the best I have seen =] so keep it up!!
wow! awesome templates…
These templates are really superb..
Excellent templates here.Good for designers.
Wow! There are so many awesome designer portfolios. I’m just wondering how many talented people! Their sites quite interesting to visit. As a web designer, I have similar works and wish to be in such list as well. May be you want to see my creations and share your opinion. http://www.websitetemplates.bz/
Thanks in advance.
Excellent collection very nice. Thanks.
If you are creative and want to show your work in http://www.nicewebdesk.com/ can do it and get more visitors to your website
very nice collections!!!
Digital Mash has a virus on it, do not go there.
Great list of sites. Love the variety!
Wow what great sites! I’m 14 years old and I just designed my first portfolio site…check it out at: http://www.auxilium.comoj.com
Sorry for such a weird URL…I don’t have a
Excellent templates.. Great work!
http://www.santoshsapkota.com . My new portfolio
Nice Collection of templates ,Hambo DEvelopment is very attractive ……………..thanks for sharing
Hi,
Great experience to share these templates
nice collection
Thanks for the share ………………..
HI,
VERY CRATIVE DESIGN . THANK YOU FOR SHARE
very nice collection. My all time favorite is http://www.crafty-labs.com
amazing post !! i used to visit some of these site !! but some site are really new for me .. !!
Ace collection :o)!!!! Thanks for sharing
I wanna my portfolio to be entered in the list.. Please check my site at http://www.opencreativs.com and add it to the list if it qualifies..
I`m a professional web designer with 2+ yrs of experience in this filed. I love animation
Good Collection of design. Thanks for sharing. Very great..
I like the way you make your points. Well done. It’s amazing.
i like these nice template designs. thanks
I have started a design portfolio online myself.
But I can really see how a well designed layout can really improve the impact of your portfolio.
My portfolio can be seen at http://www.blankdesignportfolio.com.
Let me know what you think. 🙂
Great Portfolio!…… Nice Collection of design. Thanks for sharing.
great work…..thanks to bring for us…
i love your collection…really its a great job…
Some very good designs here! This article is a good resource site to give me some inspiration!!
It’s very good article. I just found one more portfolio – http://www.bazef.com.
This is a really good read for me, Must admit that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw. Looking forward for your next one.
Hi.Thanks. Well, since this is about blog comment, I just wanna tell you that this post is great. Just wanna brighten your day, I guess. 🙂 It helps me a lot. Bookmarked!
Really awesome list! Thanks for publishing this inspirational work!
Please check out http://www.vybez.nl. It’s a Dutch portfolio website with work from all kinds of Dutch professionals!
Great stuff, inspired my re-design as well!
Nice list. I’ll have to take some time to review everything.
nice template designs…thanks for sharing
inspiring collection..this blog will give relay help to my web design campaign..Thanks for sharing!
Nice & Greate one
We are not here?
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I like mac and iphone4’s website.It’s looks so beautiflly
cool Collection, Loving it.
Thanks for sharing
Nice list of inspiring designers’ portfolio. Really impressed with the designs. More impressed with how you get all this websites together.
Very nice, great collection
Great article and your blog template is so cool. Is this template free or not? If so, Where could i download this template? if not, how much does it cost? Thanks a lot!
nice examples!
love it
wow, i like this portfolio designs. very great 😉
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