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Designers: 15 Places To Build and Showcase Your Portfolio

by Unknown | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 | 5 Comments

Working in a creative industry often means that you need to present your work on a global stage, using an attractive and professional platform. As a designer, you need to have a solid web page where you can display your work as a reference for your skills and expertise. Of course, you can have printed versions of your work. Nevertheless, online pages are still the most accessible place where a large number of people can see your portfolio.

There are many websites that you can choose to showcase your portfolio, but with the many choices present, it might be difficult to choose which one that best suit your needs. So, we have surf through the whole web to bring you the 15 best sites to build and showcase your portfolio. Enjoy!



Carbonmade

Carbonmade is one of the best portfolio sites available online. It allows you to show off the masterpiece of your work in a user-friendly and flexible interface. This portfolio design website has close to 800,000 portfolios at the time of writing. And also, it allows you to put together "a hassle-free online portfolio" without HTML knowledge.




Coroflot

Coroflot has been one of the biggest and oldest portfolio site. Coroflot has grown to host over 2 million images with over 150,000 new projects published every month from professionals and students. One big bonus about Coroflot is that it provide space and opportunity for creative professionals and hiring companies to find each other, and everything is free as at now.




Behance

Behance is another great portfolio site that will help you to spread your work to the design community. Behance attracts millions of visitors per month who are interested in hiring talented and creative freelancers.
This portfolio design hotspot offers a wide range of customizable portfolios. There is no upload limit on images, videos, audio and text. And the good news is: it's free. The site also offers social media integration, including with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.




Dribbble

Dribbble is a place to show and tell, promote, discover, and explore design. Web designers, graphic designers, illustrators, icon artists, typographers, logo designers, and other creative types share small screenshots (shots) that show their work, process, and current projects. You can sign up as a prospect if you are a professional on the lookout for work, or as a Scout if you are an employer seeking new talent.




DeviantART

DeviantART is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts. The site's vibrant social network environment receives over 160,000 daily uploads of original art works ranging from traditional media, such as painting and sculpture, to digital art, pixel art, films and anime.

Within a matter of minutes you can fully configure your very own portfolio and start submitting your creative work for review by potential employers, art schools, or clients.




Cargo Collective

Cargo is an online portfolio platform that allow its members to create free standing personal websites with their own URL with a wide variety of templates. Designers with some experience in web development stand to benefit from using Cargo. However, it may not be the best option for people with limited knowledge of programming. But you are not left out, you can seek advice from other users. This site also gives your prospective clients a “Follow” feature through which they can track of all their favoured designs.




Bleidu

Bleidu is an online platform for creative designers. It allow you to quickly create a free portfolio website in seconds. Your website portfolio has a plethora of functionality aside from displaying your portfolio gallery. You can create a number of different web pages to enhance the user experience and attract more visitors. You can create a Portfolio Gallery, HTML Content, Blogging, Resume and Form pages




ColourLovers

The is an ultimate community for artists looking to get color inspiration and get feedback on their professional or personal projects. ColourLovers offer a wealth of user created & shared color inspiration as well as tools that make the creative process as simple as possible. Whether you’re simply looking for a color palette to kickstart your next project or want to produce a piece of vector art, ColourLovers have the tools and services to help anybody from go from design inspiration to execution.




Design:related

Design:related is a community site with portfolio, inspiration, and news tools that brings together creative people from different disciplines (and parts) of the design and art world. The design:related community serves to motivate designers and creatives to share their work and visual ideas, network and collaborate with other creatives, and find job opportunities.




Designmoo

Designmoo is a community for sharing and discovering free PSDs, vectors, textures, patterns, fonts, and more. It's a great network of designers and community resources and provide a centralized location for finding great-looking free design resources.




Vewbook

Vewbook geared to the needs of "image creators", so whether you are a graphic designer or a photographer seeking a portfolio design website, you could profit from hosting your online portfolio on Viewbook. You can upload and organize your work with the Viewbook manager, and design your portfolio website and presentations with the visual design editor to suit your branding and style. You can also download presentations and hi-res images, and mobile galleries are a useful feature.




SHOWN'D

SHOWN'D aims to provide users with a centralized hub to maintain a portfolio and secure employment. It offers powerful tools and clean design that makes sure to keep the focus on the artist and their vision.
Whether you're a photographer, graphic or web designer, illustrator, writer, videographer, or "that guy", you're going to need a portfolio. That's where SHOWN'D come in.




Portfoliobox

Portfoliobox is a web tool you can use to create your own online portfolio website. It features galleries, pages, a blog, an ecommerce store and video capabilities. With Portfoliobox you are not forced to use a standard theme. You can choose any style for any page and combine pages like lego.
Your online portfolio website will automatically adjust to fit smart phones and you can use dedicated settings to control the look of your website in mobile devices.




Crevado

Crevado is a free and easy-to-use solution for those in the creative industries wanting to showcase their work. It offers a free subscription that allows you to host 30 images. A paid subscription (starts at $5) unlocks features such as higher image definition, PayPal integration, and more.




Flickr

Flickr came into the limelight when it was acquired by Yahoo. As you probably already know, Flickr is a very popular online photo-sharing site. You can use the website for showcasing your graphic designs and photography, online image editing and tagging. You could group your work into sets, with headings such as "Web Design", "Web Development" and so on, which gives the added benefit of exposing your work to people searching as it is massively search engine optimized






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