Some of them manage to do something really special. Here are 10 examples of the best and most creative portfolios online.

1. Jan Ploch

This excellent portfolio design from German designer Jan Ploch shows a great deal of ingenuity. The whole thing is based on the idea that the creative process is like a bottle, and he proposes the means of filling it. Even the website itself has a bottle design with an old fashioned touch, and everything is done in beige and brown shades. Despite this, it is extremely dynamic.

2. Tiny Big Studios

A fun and interactive portfolio design, there are plenty of little features to discover in this quirky design. If you touch the cursor to the logo in the corner the ant spins, and there is an arrow to the ant itself stating that it was not responsible for the creation of the site design. This leads to a link that takes you down to another section of the same page to introduce the branding company that did build it. You get a look at what they do, who they are and what they have done in the past, all on one page that manages to present a ton of information without looking messy or cluttered.

3. iLussori

This sleek website shows us what can be done with a fast-paced design aimed at providing an immediate look at the company’s capabilities. As a multimedia business, they gave us plenty to look at. There is a slideshow in the background that has been subdued with black and white and slight blurring. Then, you get a choice of a few examples on the front page, along with a link to a wide portfolio. Simple flash at its best.

4. Lois Jeans

You start off being brought to a home page that gives you three language options. When you select your own, you are then given two other options: Utopic or Dystopic, meaning your vision of the future. Each one gives you a series of bubbles with both images and videos, creating a marketing campaign based on either a perfect world of harmony, or one of miserable living conditions and dangers. Very cool, very modern and it taps into the current trend of expanding on both of these ideals in fiction.

5. FS Designs

A beautiful woman and an animated car on fire make up the logo design for this company. The overall website is dark and trendy, with a simple thumbnail look at some choice projects. It shows how you can make simple portfolio design look extremely complex and cool.

6. Scotch & Soda

Not technically a portfolio design site, this is a shop that shows off a lot of their work so I figure it applies. They have regularly changing ideas, and they are all pretty cool. Right now you can watch a slideshow, or play with the moving snowflakes that switch direction when you move your cursor.

7. Dan123

Meet Dan. He is a very friendly-seeming front end developer who has created this website to show us all the things he can do. His website is fun and cartoonish, with a kind of retro sci fi look. He even has a postcard motif for the contact page, which is a nice touch. He has a collection of thumbnails to see his work in the center, and they are nice and evenly space without a lot of frill.

8. Indubitablee

Formerly operating under the name Cornerd, they used a unique and interesting grid design for their site. They put an emphasis on communication, with a large portion of the home page dedicated to the contact link, their RSS feed and their Twitter profile. That is something unique that you will probably begin to see more often as freelancers and small business owners continue to see the link between their portfolio and social networking.

9. Otterball

When you first go to this link you will see an animation of a bunch of messed up thumbnails. They move in a circle pattern and then slide onto one side, aligning on the left hand of the page. This is a simple thumbnail presentation of their past work. They also have an About Us and Contact page, but everything is very simply made.

10. TauaDesign

This site is even better when you say the name out loud and hear the "tada!" sound it makes. They went completely minimalist, with nothing but a white page with a couple of gray sections on the side that takes you to different parts of the site. This includes a portfolio page, which is brought up with a flash animation of black boxes that turn into thumbnails.

Conclusion

If these portfolio design don’t inspire you, nothing will. What are some of your own favorites? Show us in the comments.

Types of Portfolios

When trying to get a job or get acquaintance with the most well reputed organizations, your portfolio is the most solid asset to reach to the employer who will decide whether to take you or not.

Creating Portfolio by Website

In today’s world this is probably the most used way of showing your work. Online showing your portfolio is not easily accessible but also looks very dynamic and professional.

Benefits:

• Easy to send to anyone, you can just send a link.
• You can very well play with the graphics, can give it a proper designed form, can use colors and can use unlimited effects which would actually depict your own personality too.
• You can have interactive presentation of your work.

Drawbacks:

• Though it has its own positive aspects, this is the most time consuming to make.
• Since it’s completely produced on the computer you don’t know whether it will open on other systems, how it will behave, how it will appear.
• Incase you are not aware of developing a website yourself, it will be very expensive to hire someone to make it for you.
• Payment for the domain and web hosting will also be done by you.

Creating Portfolio in the Form of PDF

Creating portfolio in the form of PDF is becoming more and more popular since multiple pages, images can be sent together in one piece and the result is a brochure like file which looks professional.

Benefits:

• It’s easy to e mail.
• You don’t have to worry about the systems and browsing issues, you can actually represent it the way you have made it.
• The PDF depicts a well knitted layout and creates an automatic balance.
• It can be printed with proper and uniform results.
• It’s quick and free of cost to develop.

Drawbacks:

• It’s completely dependable on the user wither to open it or save it.
• You cannot show your web design projects in it.

The Classic Portfolio

This is in the form of small booklet and actual printed form. In today’s digital world this still looks nice and appealing. Several ways can be developed to develop the hard copy, either putting in prints in a pre made booklet or designing your own custom designed booklet.

Benefits:

• Shoes your work in its actual printed form and format, it’s a hard copy of your work
• Due to this reason the clients can consult it or look at it several times whenever needed, he doesn’t really have to open his computer every time.
• Since it’s tangible, it can be given away to show it to others.
• It can be placed on anyone’s working table and if it has a dynamic beautiful graphics, it increases the value of the table and anyone walking in or passing byy can actually have a look at it.
• No computer required, can be brought in any time anywhere.

Drawbacks:

• It can only be delivered by post and not thorough e mail. Else can be delivered in person.
• If you don’t have several copies of it, you leave it with a client and you have nothing left.
• If the printing is not upto the standard, it can destroy your very well worked and excellent graphics.
• Making several copies of it can be very expensive.

After the portfolio comes the step how to promote it

Ways to Promote Your Business

Word of Mouth

This is the oldest and most effective way of publicity. It always feels good when someone says “have you heard of that person who has designed my logo and stationer, He’s really good.” This might seem very good but actually even this needs reminders to people. This can be done in several ways, quarterly newsletters or press ads would work. Even small flyer printing can be a good option.

Design a Business Card

This is the most organized way. Giving your personal visiting card to potential clients helps you gain popularity instead of giving your contact information by writing down on some piece of paper which later might be lost. Creative cards and good business card can bring you more work. Few business cards are so well designed that even if the client does not intend to give you work, he would just keep it with him because it’s beautiful, but later some time he would definitely consult it to give you work.

Credit Line

When you work for somebody he or she will definitely promote you to his or her clients through word of mouth. But isn’t it too cool that you get through that person’s clients yourself. There is no harm in it since you are not violating anyone’s rights. It’s just you are getting the credit for your work yourself instead of involving any third person.

Get a Blog

Creating your website isn’t enough. Try making a social network where people can directly approach your portfolio and can comment on it. In this way your publicity will get social.

Along with this learn to organize your work by keeping them up to date. Use softwares to keep backups, use time tracking softwares to see how fast you can work. Meet deadlines yourself. You must organize your work in the most manageable way in order to use it for future references.

Dealing with the clients might not be as easy as it appears. But it’s important to know what to talk to clients when you meet them. Ask them

• Who is the target audience
• What is the message of the campaign
• What is their brand identity
• What are the designed items required and their specifications
• What is the budget of the client
• Is there any deadline for the project
• Does he already have any references
• Does he prefer certain colors or fonts

You must decide on the contract first, either you take a certain amount of initial advance payment or a token amount just to assure that he doesn’t run away after getting you hooked up by making several options. If you are using stock images make sure you have the copyrights or buy the images. Never cheat, never borrow or copy the images. Decide on the concept first, then work accordingly in schedule given by client. Make sure you work on the images and backgrounds so that they can be produced in high resolution later for artwork.

Web Design Portfolios for Your Inspiration

Recently, over at Arbenting this point was really driven home, when two separate posts, a freebie that we had given away on our blog and a guest post that we had done on another blog, both yielded job opportunities from clients who had not visited our portfolios. So it is not like this principle is without its merit. The reason that this can be important to design bloggers, is because we tend to put a lot of work into our portfolios, ensuring that only quality goes into it. However, when it comes to our blog, quantity tends to trump quality at times. This is among the considerations that need to be made if you seek to maximize your blog’s potential and use it in this way.

Below is a look at a few of the ways that we can fine tune our blog and get it working with us in this new direction that we are steering it. This is not to say that you have to engage in all of the blogging activities listed below in order to increase your chances of reaching potential clients through your posts, but the more of them that you undertake the better your reach will be.

Design Freebies

One thing that you hear a lot when bloggers are dispensing advice on gaining traffic, is that giving something away on your site tends to draw people in. This falls in line with our discussion today, because on a design site, if you are going to give something away in order to attract readers, then try to make it something you have designed. A freebie of some kind. Now there are those in the community who feel like giving away design freebies is not necessarily a great thing for the field, but I disagree. Especially in this case.

Speaking of freebies, this was a wallpaper we gave away on the site that prompted a band to hire us to put together a new design for their cd cover.

Because when we design some sort of freebie to give away, we are not only drawing in readers, but we are also showcasing some of our design skills and know how by crafting usable and appealing design resources. There are many who forget that you can use these freebies as mini marketing posts for your site and your talents within the field. You never know who may be browsing your site or your freebies, and these types of posts on your blog can be attractive ways to highlight the designers behind the scenes, so to speak. So that is one way to potentially reach new clients through blogging.

Guest Blog for Other Design Sites

Another way to use your blogging skills to reach out to potential clients, is to effectively extend your reach beyond your own blog and do guest posts for other design related blogs as well. Given that increased visibility throughout the blogosphere is somewhat key to rising above the masses and being noticed by some of the more casual audience, finding other sites in your arena that you can do guest posts for can help grant you that more visible edge you need. Lets face it, the blogosphere is somewhat crowded these days, so anything we can do to help us stand out is useful.

The better you blog, the more opportunities you have to guest blog on sites with a much wider audience reach than your own, and this will really help with the visibility factor when it comes to getting out there. So work on your ability to really dissect a topic and present it in a helpful, easy to digest way so that you can be marketable among the blogosphere. There are a number of posts and sites that are dedicated to helping you improve your blogging skills, and honing your voice for an online audience that you might want to check out if you feel you might be somewhat lacking in this arena. So even if you are not quite there yet, that doesn’t mean you should give up. It takes time to get the formula where you want it.

So especially in the beginning of your time in the blogosphere, you want to accept whatever opportunities you have at your disposal in order to flex your voice and get it out there. Getting others to blog on your site is another boon in this effort, as you can often work out a trade of posts with some of your colleagues who are looking to get their voice out there as well.

Design Filled Posts

Another way to possibly reach out to new clients through your design blog, is to actually fill your posts with designs over just plain complementary images. This is not always the easiest to do given your posts specific topic may not lend to this method as naturally as you would like. But whenever it is possible, find ways to include some eye catching design work into the post to highlight a particular point in the discussion. This will more than likely be received well by your random readers as well as any potential clients browsing through the posts.

After initially consulting with the band, this was the concept they chose to jump off from, combining it with more of the color and style of the wallpaper that drew them in.

Interestingly enough, it is not always necessary for the designs that you are including in the post to actually be your own work to attract new clients your way. It just so happens that you can also be showcasing the work of other designers, and as long as you are able to effectively critique the work or provide a rundown which demonstrates a level of understanding of the field and processes then you might find businesses contacting you based on this display of design expertise. You might also find that you are being contacted because they think the designs showcased are your work. In these cases it is best to be honest and direct the client towards the owner of the piece, but this still provides you a chance to get your foot in the door.

Especially since the potential client will be directing you towards a design that tends to be along the lines of what they are looking for. When you contact them back to direct them onward (since we tend to link the images to their point of origin this is an easy forward) you can include some samples of your own work that might also fall into that same category to show them what you are capable of.

Quality Always Wins

As mentioned up front, when you are trying to use your blogging efforts to extend your portfolio, you want to apply some of those same rules to your blog that you would to the works you would include in your portfolio. The first and foremost being that you always want to opt for quality over quantity with regards to your blog posts. You do not want to be posting just to have some sort of fresh content on your blog. Content for the sake of content does not tend to follow on this quality rule and so when you are blogging to essentially expand your portfolio, you want to really tighten the content reins.

For this approach to work, when potential clients casually make their way to your blog, they need to connect with gold. You do not want them to have to sift through the filler content to find the posts that might lead them to hiring you for their next design project. Same goes for the content that you are putting out through the design community blogosphere as well. Those guest posts should be viewed as an extension of your own blog, and the same care and effort you put into your own posts should go into every post you put out. Again, for this approach to work right, quality always wins.

That’s a Wrap

That is all from this end for now, but that does not mean that the discussion is over. The comment section is now yours to follow up as you see fit. Add to the topics already introduced, or highlight some of your own approaches for successfully pulling off this extension below. Hopefully the post has left you with some things to think about.

For the latest updates and personal art, check out his deviant profile or personal site. Here i have collected some outstanding examples from his work.

I hope you will like these sites too. If you are a photographer and you think your site is more creative don’t hesitate to tell us about it by adding comments. I may add those sites in round two.

1. CirilJazbec

2. Anders Bergh

3. David Lindsey Wade

4. Lee Twondrow

5. Moofe

6. Saso Kos

7. Gabriel Vinci

8. Emmanuel Rouzic

9. Cake Factory

10. Filippa Smedhagen Sund

11. Simon Rasmussen

12. Uli Heckmann

13. Let’s Take Pictures

14. Ego Foto

15. Safandula

16. Brook Pifer

17. Shu Akashi

18. Karin Partin

19. Alessio Pizzicannella

20. Amy Danka

21. Andreescu Gaivoronski

22. Albrecht Gerlach

23. Capsule Creative

24. Sonja Mueller

25. Frieke

While browsing net i collected 15+ creative flash web sites of design studios.

1. Hello Monday

2. The Egg Republic

3. Caime Friends

4. Cartelle – Interactive Studio

5. In2Media

6. Cliff Freeman & Partners

7. Hooky Interactive

8. Magic Socket

9. Birdman – The Graphic Design Company

10. Lumina Live!

11. From Scratch

12. SeyMourPowell

13. TBWA Compact

14. Red Interactive Agency

15. Group94

16. Switch Mediaworks

There are thousands of web designers trying to show their creativity. I tried to list those portfolio web sites which are more creative and unique. Here are 60 amazing portfolio web sites.

Please note that these are not listed in any particular order.

1. Jay Hafling

Jay Hafling is a designer from Ukraine having experience of 6 years.

2. Alex Buga

A flash portfolio web site.

3. Emotions Live

Portfolio of Mike, a freelance web graphic designer.

4. Digital Mash

Portfolio of Rob Morris, an Australian graphic designer.

5. Taufiq Ridha

Web and Graphic Designer who lives in Jakarta.

6. Pojeta

An illustrator’s portfolio.

7. Brad Colbow

Brad Colbow is a web designer, illustrator and cartoonist.

8. Kulturbanause

Kulturbanause, the private blog & portfolio of Jonas Hellwig, Düsseldorf (Germany) based Webdesigner.

9. Alexandru Cohaniuc

Alexandru Cohaniuc, a web designer from Chisinau, Moldova.

10. Design Disease

Design Disease provides cost-effective Web design services focused on usability, accessibility and Web standards.

11. Adaptd

AdaptD is a small web design and development firm based in Bucharest, Romania.

12. Veboo Labs

Veboo Labs is an experienced team of web designers and developers focused on providing highest quality.

13. Dawghouse Design Studio

This is a personal website, visual playground and testing ground of Jan.

14. Freshivore

Designer is specialize in delivering effective, long-lasting, good-quality Web sites that meet my clients’ goals.

15. Dizzain

Dizzain Inc. is a New York Web Design Company focusing on custom web solutions, logo design and WordPress themes.

16. Web Design Beach

Web Design Beach is based out of San Diego, California and Amsterdam, Holland.

17. Patagonia Creative

Simple solutions for complex projects – Web Design & Graphics.

18. Monofactor

Portfolio of Onur Oztaskiran, currently located in Turkey.

19. James Lai Creative

Developing dynamic and beautiful sites for nearly 10 years.

20. Galan Design

Portfolio of Ramiro Galan having experience in a variety of areas from strategic user centered design to brand design and development.

21. Pikaboo

Brussels based motion graphic studio.

22. Jeffrey Sarmiento

Jeffrey Sarmiento is a web designer living in Toronto, Canada.

23. Marc Dahmen

An interactive flash portfolio.

24. Dean Oakley

Portfolio of Dean Oakley, a web designer and developer from Gold Coast, Australia.

25. Bcandullo

Online portfolio of Brad Candullo. Interactive Designer / Developer.

26. 13 Creative

Portfolio of Jen, founder of 13 Creative.

27. We Bleed Design

This is the portfolio site of Bryan Katzel.

28. Nile Inside

Online showcase and portfolio of Nile Studio.

29. Okay Dave

An interactive portfolio of Dave Werner.

30. Thibaud

Thibaud’s portfolio, a freelance CG artist from Belgium.

31. In Trozo

Personal portfolio of Eduardo Valdivieso.

32. Foxie

A full team of professionals, performing all kinds of works, from idea to prepress, from design layout to programming.

33. Kino

Open Space and portfolio of kino aka Andrea Banchini.

34. Ed Peixoto

A self-taught Brazilian art director/designer.

35. Hello Karl

Hellokarl is Charles Kalpakian’s portoflio. Young french designer based in Paris.

36. Keithar

Design portfolio of Sebastian Witman, a Young web designer based in Tartaczna.

37. Studio E-Space

Online portfolio and personal WEB space of Studio E-Space.

38. Seb Design

“sebdesign.eu” can’t be defined with one word. From functional design to abstract illustrations, bold shapes to fine details, colourful palette, using imagination and hard work.

39. B.N.Weiss

Online portfolio & personal WEB space of NYC Designer Benjamin Weiss.

40. New Concept

Portfolio of Szabolcs Bakos, a web and graphic designer from Salgotarjan, Hungary.

41. Sprawsm

Online portfolio of Superawesome, a small and affordable design firm specialized in visual design for the modern Web.

42. Jek2k

Online Work Space and portfolio of Nicolò Volpato.

43. Nine Lion Design

The Design Portfolio of Chikezie Ejiasi.

44. David Hellmann

Portfolio of David Hellmann, a 24 year old young web designer from cologne, Germany.

45. Rockatee

Rockatee is a tiny design studio led by a single German web and front-end designer & developer.

46. Octwelve

Personal blog of web designer,Luc Melgar.

47. Tvrdek

Personal effective portfolio of Jiri Tvrdek, a 26 year old freemind freelance graphic designer based in Prague.

48. Osvaldas

Web designer and developer based in Vilnius, a capital of a brave country – Lithuania.

49. Big Sweater Design

Big Sweater Design was born around the fourth quarter of 2005. It’s a one-man show, run by me, Vincent Maglione.

50. Toby Powell

Web design, identity and 3D visualisation. Built according to the latest web standards.

51. Tony Geer

Portfolio of Tony Geer, a web designer.

52. Leigh Taylor

Online showcase of selected works of Leigh Taylor.

53. Matt Dempsey

Online Portfolio of Matt Dempsey.

54. Mediocore

Portfolio of David Arazim, a Graphic Designer from Czech Republic.

55. Thuiven

Portfolio and Work Space of Thuiven, an Israeli company specializing in giving web design and development services.

56. Mcjdj

Texturing and modelling portfolio of Carolina Jesus, A UK based young female Environment Artist.

57. Injection Design

Portfolio of Chan Karunamuni, founder of Injection Design – a design consultancy.

58. Colour Pixel

Portfolio of Nag, a designer from Hyderabad.

59. Kailoon

Portfolio of Kailoon, a web designer from Malaysia.

60. CodingMonkeys

Web design and branding solutions.

I am sorry if i missed your portfolio . But if you think you are more creative tell me i will include your site in list too.