When it’s early in your career, it can be difficult to find a lot of work to include on your portfolio, which can look quite bare as a result. This elegant site combines an elegant design with lots of little JavaScript tricks to fill the gap, and the overall effect is very impressive. We also like that Meneur makes it clear what specific role he played in group projects. Someone give this man an internship!
05. Will Sanders
Will Saunders is an award-winning London-based photographer whose work has appeared newspapers, magazines and exhibitions worldwide. His elegantly art-directed portfolio is a treat for the eyes, making great use of whitespace to focus attention on the beautiful photos, and we found it difficult to stop ourselves scrolling.
06. Diane Martel
Diane Martel is a filmmaker and creative director living in New York City and Los Angeles. Her portfolio website takes a little while to load, but it’s well worth the wait. The homepage features a truly innovative 3D scrolling navigation that’s similar to the Star Wars opener, and is lots of fun to play with. You can enjoy a similar experience on the site of the man who designed it, Ben Wegscheider.
07. Peter Tait
Peter Tait is a multifunctional designer/developer based in Bath, England. While the design of his freelance portfolio is fairly straightforward, we love the way the background colour of each page changes to match each project. It’s a simple but effective idea that could be easily translated to any kind of portfolio. We also like how the call-to-action ‘Available for freelance work’ appears clearly on the homepage. You’d think every freelancer would put this message front and centre, but surprisingly few do.
08. Björn Terring
Björn Terring is a commercial and lifestyle photographer based in Stockholm. Anyone who’s been staring at a series of carbon-copy portfolios will welcome the stylish, scrapbook-style layout of his image-led site. And the carefully curated selection of work makes it instantly clear where this talented creative is coming from.
09. Marija Zaric
Marija Zaric is a web designer living in Belgrade, Serbia who designs “simple and user friendly websites”. And her portfolio site, which uses a minimal colour palette and strips everything back to the bare essentials, is one of them. It’s always good to showcase what you do in the design of your portfolio, as well as its content, and this is a great example of that principle in action.
