{"id":80259,"date":"2021-09-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/?p=80259"},"modified":"2022-11-10T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:02:44","slug":"graphic-design-portfolio-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/articles\/inspiration\/graphic-design-portfolio-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Graphic Design Portfolio Examples + Templates"},"content":{"rendered":"
Every designer has a portfolio that acts as their online resume. It\u2019s what you use to win clients, show off your skills, and differentiate yourself from the other designers.<\/p>\n
Graphic design portfolio websites usually look similar. There are elements and sections that are fairly common among them. But, there are a few who go above and beyond to make their portfolios look incredible. And wow their potential clients. This post is all about those designer portfolios.<\/p>\n
In this list, you\u2019ll find some of the best graphic design portfolio examples for your inspiration. As an added bonus, we also listed some graphic design portfolio templates that you can use to quickly setup a portfolio website of your own.<\/p>\n
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When talking about graphic design, the first thing that comes to your mind is visuals. And this design portfolio makes use of it quite well to make a great first impression.<\/p>\n
The portfolio for the US-based Rui Ma design agency features nothing but big and beautiful visuals. The website showcase the agency\u2019s best work in a fullscreen layout with minimum use of text.<\/p>\n
Oscar is a modern HTML template you can use to design portfolios for agencies and startups. Even though it doesn\u2019t look exactly like the Rui Ma website, it has all the key elements of professional portfolio design.<\/p>\n
The portfolio for the French graphic designer, Lois Ansa is a thing of beauty. It\u2019s made up of a color palette of just two colors\u2014 red and white.<\/p>\n
The portfolio can be explored one slide at a time. And each slide is presented to you with stylish animations. Even though it uses minimal colors, the website itself is attractive enough to get you to explore the entire portfolio.<\/p>\n
Similar to Lois Ansa\u2019s website, Atail is a website template that also features a slide-based portfolio design. It also comes with a minimalist layout that utilizes white space quite well.<\/p>\n
Jim Stahn\u2019s stunning graphic design work is showcased beautifully in a grid layout website. The well-organized, user-friendly interface keeps the focus on his design work.<\/p>\n
Jim loves building satisfying graphic design experiences and is passionate about finding exciting, imaginative ways to communicate ideas. Which is clearly shown through the portfolio design.<\/p>\n
This portfolio website is built with the Pixpa online website builder. It allows you to build beautiful portfolio websites without having to worry about any coding. It includes many pre-built templates for you to choose from as well.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not quite sure about what Cathrine was going for with the font choices. But we appreciate the use of vintage-inspired colors and the gradually fading background of this portfolio.<\/p>\n
Cathrine Understrup is a freelance branding and graphic designer specializing in low-fi visuals. As you can see, the design of the portfolio is crafted based on the trends of the industry she specializes in.<\/p>\n
On a side note, the use of emojis throughout the design makes the portfolio look more fun and entertaining.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, you can say a lot using a single image than showcasing all your projects on the website homepage. That\u2019s exactly what Nathan Denton was going for with his portfolio website.<\/p>\n
As a creative director who handles all aspects of graphic and web designs, Nathan was obviously aiming for a more subtle and simple design. Which is why this portfolio homepage features just a large background image with a title and a couple of links. Even the portfolio page of the website uses text titles instead of images to list the projects.<\/p>\n
This portfolio template also utilizes big image backgrounds with bold titles. It\u2019ll help you create a similar portfolio website with large visuals.<\/p>\n
Different creatives use minimalism in different ways. Some use blank space to add a minimal look while others use minimal images and colors. This portfolio uses both.<\/p>\n
The Australian design agency Another Colour has a portfolio website that has a very unusual style of design. It features a very simple design that uses bright and colorful gradients. It fits well with the brand name as well.<\/p>\n
Integrating specific art styles and trends also helps make your portfolio stand out and adding a personality to your website. The portfolio for Neuebel&Mark leverage this strategy quite well.<\/p>\n
This portfolio website uses a unique style of design taking inspiration from Art Nouveau and vintage design trends. Since the agency specializes in type design, their choice of color and layout fits perfectly with the branding as well.<\/p>\n
Ukko is a portfolio template that also uses a trendy layout featuring a classic vintage design. It\u2019s perfect for creating a freelance designer portfolio.<\/p>\n
The dark color theme is a popular trend that we see all around the web. Especially with dark modes introduced to mobile and desktop operating systems, the trend is catching on quickly to websites as well.<\/p>\n
Samuel Scalzo, a graphic designer from Belgium, also uses a dark color theme to showcase his work on the portfolio. And it seems to match perfectly with the style of his artworks.<\/p>\n
This creative HTML template comes with a dark color theme. It\u2019s specifically crafted for graphic designers with a modern and elegant look and feel.<\/p>\n
The split-screen layout is another popular style of design used in portfolio websites. This particular portfolio website uses the trend in a creative way mixed with animations to make the site experience feel like watching a slideshow.<\/p>\n
Graphic designer Adam Sandoval uses a very clever color scheme across his website. The color yellow is often used to attract attention, according to color psychology. The design itself and the website user experience also fits well with the overall design.<\/p>\n
Aria is a modern portfolio template that features the same split-screen layout. Except this design has a fixed design but you can customize it to add more sections.<\/p>\n
Sometimes an old-school, classic grid design is the perfect way to showcase your portfolio in a simple way. This portfolio website shows you how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
The French graphic design agency Studio Fables uses a classic portfolio design featuring a grid-based content layout. When clicking on a portfolio item, it opens up an entire page with more details about each project. It\u2019s old-school but works quite well.<\/p>\n
Remark is an HTML template that comes with a classic grid portfolio design. Graphic designers can use it to show off lots of images without cluttering the website.<\/p>\n
This portfolio website belongs to the UK-based graphic design agency Root Studio. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary website but it has a clever header design that makes this site special.<\/p>\n
That Giraffe on the homepage is not an image. It\u2019s actually a video on a loop that fits in perfectly with the website design as well as the brand. The rest of the portfolio design looks quite nice as well.<\/p>\n
Elio is a creative HTML template for making portfolios. It may not come with animated Giraffes but it features all the perfect elements for creating professional portfolio websites.<\/p>\n
Designing a killer portfolio website takes a lot of creative thinking. Use our tips for improving your portfolio<\/a> and explore more examples in our best personal portfolio websites<\/a> list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every designer has a portfolio that acts as their online resume. It\u2019s what you use to win clients, show off your skills, and differentiate yourself from the other designers. Graphic design portfolio websites usually look similar. There are elements and sections that are fairly common among them. But, there are a few who go above […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":80298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[911],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80259"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98077,"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80259\/revisions\/98077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designshack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}