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What is the best portfolio you've ever seen?
9 years ago from Paul Dessert, Web Developer/Designer and Entrepreneur
I'm looking for the best of the best. What's your favorite design portfolio of all time?
58 comments
Katie Chen, 9 years ago Simple site to make the work shine. Lovely!
Sam Gold, 9 years ago
I really love her work! ++
Jesse Dobbelaere, 9 years ago
I like Ivo Mynttinen his clean style and eye for details.
Tom Wood, 9 years ago
I love how the examples of his work scroll with mouseover - the motion is so subtle, and the easing is gorgeous. The way that extends to the buttons is also fantastic.
Alexander van Ravestyn, 9 years ago
I have to second that. No nonsense and very high quality content. I especially like his autograph in the header!
Catalin Cimpanu, 9 years ago
Are we talking about the work inside the portfolio or the portfolio platform itself? Cause those are two separate things.
Paul Dessert, 9 years ago
I was originally talking about the portfolio iteself
In that case I must disclose that I'm a big fan of Steven Heller's approach to portfolio building.
You must keep it as minimal and as product-focused at possible. Not because "the product speaks for itself", but because the people you're showing it too might be busy and not have time to wait for it to load too much or deal with all your snazzy and sometimes useless animations and effects.
Basically if you're looking for real-life implementations of his principles, any of the portfolios featured in CargoCollective's main page are OK with me.
Links for study:
http://illustrationage.com/2010/03/09/efii-podcast-episode-25-steven-heller/
While I somewhat agree, I'll also have to somewhat disagree.
In my opinion, it all depends on the specific job/discipline your focused on. If you're a traditional artist or graphic designer, Heller's approach might be appropriate. But, what if you're a front end JavaScript developer? Shouldn't your portfolio show some of your skills?
I agree 100% that useless animations and effects are, well, useless. But I think there is a tolerance for it. As designers, isn't it our job to find that line?
The portfolios in the "favorites" link all seem modern to me. There is nothing wrong with them, I like the style. I'm just saying there is more than one approach.
I was giving the answer with graphic artists in mind. For developers I don't really think a portfolio is really that useful. I don't know how it's where you live but here where I'm from most programming jobs require you to take a test. If you have some open source projects in a GitHub account than most of times people don't even bother testing you. They have all they need in your GitHub code.
But developers are birds of a different feather. Sometimes you have guys like Dan Eden or Drew Wilson that can do the graphics, frontend and backend on their own, and then you have people that specialize just in Ruby, C++, or even working on something super niche like caching HTTP requests.
If were talking about the first category then a mix between graphic portfolios and in-depth case studies is a must for describing their entire process. If we're talking about the second category, then code snippets are a must.
Scott Stephens, 9 years ago
This one stands out to me... Haraldur Thorleifsson http://haraldurthorleifsson.com
Nice!
Sabrina Vogeley, 9 years ago
Impressive!
Timothy Kempf, 9 years ago There's always Tobias' lovely website: http://tobiasahlin.com/
I like that one. Thanks for sharing!
Jeremy Treuden, 9 years ago
Jessica Hische: http://jessicahische.is/working
That heart / mode-selector in the upper right makes the world at peace (hint: choose "teen girl" mode)
This is great! Love the teen girl mode!
Ramis Khawaja, 9 years ago
Whaat! I didnt know you could do that haha
Anna Niess, 9 years ago
Anton Repponen http://work.repponen.com/
Simon Carrasco, 9 years ago
;) classic
Henry Kaufman, 9 years ago
Definitely http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/. Check it out, its amazing!
I remember this one making its way around the internets last year I believe. Very cool idea. It definitely got a lot of attention.
Koen Slagter, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
Always impressed by Davey Heuser's portfolio http://davey.im
Evan Knight, 9 years ago
Hard to pick a favorite but http://sammarkiewi.cz/ is awesome.
Andrey Keske, 9 years ago
Lol. Nice dude!
Olivier Heitz, 9 years ago
Hey Studio, Barcelona: http://heystudio.es/
William Dawkins, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
Recently came across this one: https://jonsuh.com.
Lots of attention to detail.
- Hover over the logo on the top left.
- Animation of the logo on the homepage hero.
- Scroll down to the footer and see the beating heart.
Remarkable, inspiring work. Just about everything in that portfolio is absolutely gorgeous
+1 for Jon Suh. I saw his portfolio on here a few weeks ago and I agree, it's very nice. (Well done Jon)
Love heckhouse.com. Thanks for sharing!
Cale Sennett, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
Really enjoy Jon's portfolio as well. Just so you know, he open sourced it not to long ago:
https://github.com/jonsuh/jonsuh.comEnjoy!
Samuel Ṣoṣina, 9 years ago
mig.io - My favourite
Bob Wassermann, 9 years ago
Love this one: https://daneden.me. So clean.
Andy Smith, 9 years ago
Similar one http://greig.cc/
Nice!
Adam T., 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
Always coming across as high-and-mighty to me in writing, tone, design, etc. It is tightly done though.
Clay MacTavish, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
Yeah, comes off a little pretentious but the work is good.
James Greig, almost 9 years ago
Thanks Kevin. My site is actually just a tweaked Squarespace theme. Will be redesigning it to be a little less... pretentious... next year :)
Oh sorry, James, I was referring to daneden.me.
But I really dig your site design as well. Clean and easy to look read. I like your story too.
Oooops! Thanks for clarifying, portentous is the last thing I would want my site to be.
JP Brown, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
This newly finished site by Basic Agency is definitely one of, if not my favourite of all time. The design, most notably on the case studies, really is at such a high level.
Jaffar Khorshidi, 9 years ago
My favourites have to be Julien Perrière and Greg Washington
Alex Demetriades, 9 years ago I really like this one http://mikekus.com/portfolio his work is genius too.
His work is very nice!
Johannes Weber, 9 years ago
I like the one from Hochburg.net
Amy Gingold, 9 years ago
A few I would have mentioned are already in here, but here's another fun one: http://bravethewoods.com/
Sam Solomon, 9 years ago
Nobody has mentioned Frank Chimero?
Stoyan Ilchev, 9 years ago I'm in love with his business website - http://ofanother.com/
Quite frankly, I love everything he does.
The stuff isn't cutting-edge, it's not flashy, but he does amazing things with type.
Andreas H, 9 years ago
I'm impressed by http://andersdrage.com
Nathan N, 9 years ago
Jordan Price has a very impressive portfolio.
Kai Huang, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
Click his Twitter link at the bottom for a surprise.
Edit: NSFW!
Wow lmao... That would be awkward to explain in an interview...
Jesse Head, 9 years ago
Read somewhere he got a gig at Apple, so looks like it didn't hurt him too much aha.
Anthony Dines, 9 years ago
True, but then he quit that job at Apple after a month in a sadly completely unprofrofessional way: https://news.layervault.com/stories/14863-i-wanted-to-work-at-apple-really-bad-and-now-not-so-much-walking-out-on-my-dream-job
oh my.
Aaron Sagray, 9 years ago
Maybe you should let him know his account was compromised (which I'm assuming, because wtf).
Mike Heitzke, 9 years ago
Sitting at work, I immediately regretted that click. NSFW.
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