Portfolios and example portfolios
Ways of presenting work, and tools and services to help with the task.
Last updated 2019, and not currently maintained.
Generalities
Advice and perspective
- No Plastic Sleeves blog
- 4 easy steps to create a beautiful design portfolio
- OnSite on portfolios
- Avoid these five things
- Create a fake artist’s portfolio in seconds
- Brand New does a fine job of structuring and writing about project stories
- Portfolio tips from top studios: do’s and definite don’ts
Software and hosting services
- Squarespace
- Adobe Portfolio
- CarbonMade
- SAAS WordPress at WordPress.com
- Self-hosted WordPress
- Craft CMS
- Jekyll
- GitHub Pages
Supplies
- House of Portfolios (portfolio boxes and similar objects)
- Blurb (on-demand book printing)
- Artifact Uprising (high-end on-demand books)
- PaperSizes (compendium of paper dimensions, including ISO and US sizes, envelopes, and photo paper)
Portfolios by individuals
Type I
Graphic designers, interaction designers,
unicorn designer-developers,
illustrators, typographers, and cartographers
- Holly Heck
- Candy Chang
- Jason Santa Maria
- Tate Strickland
- Lisa Maione
- Nancy Palm
- Jessica Hische
- Oliver Pattison
- Ben Barry
- Mark Nystrom
- Andy Woodruff
- Jan Pioch
- Frank Chimero
- Clare Brown
- Anne Jordan
- “Walking”
- Matt Roeser
- Ken Zinser
- Annette Lenz
- Galya Kay
- Jonas Eriksson
- Liese Zahabi
- Juana Merlo
- Kendra Lebo
- Nancy Bratton
- Dan Mall
- Elisabeth Kvernen
- Tobias Frere-Jones
- Tim Lahan
- Martin Asin
- Asad Pervaiz
- Maribel Gray
- Jessie Rauch
- Francesco Fraioli
- Agnes Pierscieniak
- Tim Lahan
- Gemma Correll
Type II
Photographers, artists, architects, and industrial designers
- Josh Begley
- Trevor Paglen
- Robert Dawson
- Kate Clark
- Adam Senatori
- Eric Cahan
- Prakash Patel
- Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek
- Anna Moryoussef
- Diego Kuffer
- Giles Revell
- Daniella Spinat
- Wim Delvoye
- Tim Devin
- Nate Larson
- Wendy MacNaughton
- Hannah Kirshner
Type III
Writers and journalists
Type IV
Developers and allied practitioners
A note for friends and colleagues: I know many talented designers, and most of their portfolios don’t appear here. I value your work, but lists can only be so long.
Firms
Design firms, ad/digital agencies, and architecture studios. Know that what gets a design firm hired by a client is not quite the same as what gets an individual designer hired by a firm.
National and international
- Design for Place & Page
- Daily tous les jours
- Upstatement
- Stamen Design
- Appetite Engineers
- Ghostly Ferns
- Second Story Interactive
- Outpost
- Tomorrow Partners
- Information Architects
- Local Projects
- Pinch
- Olin Partners
- Bompass and Parr
- Field Operations
- IDEO
- The City Foundry
- Ritual Design Lab