25 Best Graphic Design Portfolio Examples 2026

The best graphic design portfolios put real work on the first screen and explain it as much as the discipline needs. These 25 portfolios come from identity, lettering, book-cover, poster, editorial, type and motion designers, from early-career designers with a first CV to senior practitioners who sell their own prints and books.

We checked about 120 designers’ sites to find them, opening each homepage, an about page and a project page, and identifying the platform from the site’s code rather than guessing. Several portfolios still cited in design roundups had lapsed into placeholder pages, password walls or, in two cases, gambling sites, so every example here is a live, working portfolio.

Best Graphic Design Portfolio Examples

1. Mackey Saturday

Built with: WordPress

Mackey Saturday designs visual identities, and his homepage says so in one line before stacking full-width panels for clients such as Unsplash, Oculus, Sentry and Ghost. Every panel offers two routes: the case study, or a link out to the live client site.

The case studies name the problem before the solution. On Unsplash he writes that the old symbol, seen away from the name, was “indiscernible from any other generic camera icon”. Separate addresses split general and work inquiries.

What stands out: An identity case study that states the problem before showing the fix.

2. Jessica Hische

Built with: Custom code

Jessica Hische is a lettering artist, and her portfolio is sorted the way her practice is: lettering and illustration, logos and branding, published books and typefaces. The homepage adds rows of recent work for advertising, books and film, editorial and products, plus a featured project with a paragraph of context.

Her Work with Me menu is the most complete services offer in this list, covering commissions, coaching, workshops, speaking and tours of her Oakland studio. Speaking requests have their own email address.

What stands out: Every way to hire her has its own page, not just commissions.

3. Linda Huang

Built with: Custom code

Linda Huang designs book covers, and her site is almost nothing else: a grid of covers on grey tiles and a navigation of two items, Covers and Info. Each cover page carries only the publisher’s name, such as Pantheon Books or Penguin Random House.

That restraint works because a cover explains itself. The Info page does the persuading, with a press list that includes repeated picks in The New York Times’ best book covers and a piece for Printed Matter acquired by the Whitney Museum.

What stands out: Two menu items and a wall of covers, proof that less interface can be more.

4. Bráulio Amado

Built with: Cargo

Bráulio Amado designs record covers, posters and illustration, and his entire navigation is one sentence of bio text naming his studio, cities, disciplines, a lecture, his book and two email addresses. Below it, the feed opens straight onto record covers for Harry Styles and André 3000.

Each project is a large image captioned with the artist and the format, and a vertical link at the edge leads to an archive of all the work. Commercial enquiries go to his agent, Big Active, kept apart from his personal email.

What stands out: A navigation that doubles as a bio.

5. Kelli Anderson

Built with: Custom code

Kelli Anderson works in paper engineering, print and interactive books, and her homepage is a numbered index of ten projects, from Tinybop’s The Human Body app to a paper record-player wedding invitation and This Book is a Camera. Each entry pairs a large image with a one-paragraph summary.

The linked case studies explain decisions, such as why The Human Body app was built with no words and no rewards. Her C.V. is a PDF, and her old portfolio and blog stay linked rather than deleted.

What stands out: Ten numbered projects, each with a reason to read further.

6. Elizabeth Goodspeed

Built with: Squarespace

Elizabeth Goodspeed works across branding, packaging, book and editorial design, and she also writes about design for It’s Nice That and in her Casual Archivist newsletter. It shows: her case studies are the most readable in this list.

The Framework 105 write-up runs to several hundred words on a 400-plus-page annual for Parsons, a project spanning editorial design, the cover and four original essays. A serif bio sits under a single hero image, with an email icon and a Let’s Chat link in the first screen.

What stands out: Case studies written by someone who writes for a living.

7. Daniel Brokstad

Built with: Cargo

Daniel Brokstad is a designer and illustrator from Norway, based in New York, and his portfolio is the clearest lesson here in crediting agency work. The Uber brand refresh page lists the entire JKR NY team and names his own role, Senior Design, rather than implying he did it alone.

The work list also includes his own typefaces, Inconstant Regular and Lucifer Sans, and an awards list covers Cannes Lions, D&AD and One Show. A contact form handles enquiries.

What stands out: Credit the team, and name your own role.

8. Victoria Escobar

Built with: Cargo

Victoria Escobar is an early-career editorial designer whose work for The New York Times Magazine sits alongside Risograph prints and a title sequence called Arrival. The homepage scatters thumbnails on a grey field beside a numbered list of nine projects.

It is a useful model for a junior site: a full HTML C/V page and a PDF résumé cover her education, internships at Friends of The Web and Bright Bright Great, and her magazine work. Email and Instagram sit in the navigation.

What stands out: A junior portfolio with a CV you can read on the page.

9. Tereza Bettinardi

Built with: Cargo

Tereza Bettinardi runs a small studio in São Paulo under her own name, focused on editorial and book design. Her header is laid out like the studio’s letterhead, with phone number, street address and email stacked top-left over a full-bleed book spread.

Project pages keep to a title and client, which suits print shown this large; one is the Type Directors Club’s TDC68 annual, others are for Nubank and Altafonte. She also founded Clube do Livro do Design, a book club that became a publisher of design books in Portuguese.

What stands out: Contact details in the first screen, styled as letterhead.

10. Ingrid Picanyol

Built with: WordPress

Ingrid Picanyol runs a Barcelona studio working on brand identity, art direction, editorial and packaging, and every project is titled with an idea rather than a client name, such as Edge as Form, Name as Gesture.

The case-study index filters two ways: by discipline, including font design and packaging, and by sector, such as perfumery, restaurants and lighting. Clients include Miansai, Patricia Urquiola and Dalston Coffee, and a Thoughts section sits beside the projects.

What stands out: Case studies a client can filter by their own industry.

11. Jon Gray (gray318)

Built with: Squarespace

Jon Gray works under the name gray318, and his first screen is nothing but book covers, five to a row and edge to edge: Neuromancer, Quichotte, Normal People, Grand Union. For a cover designer, recognisable covers are the whole argument.

The navigation has three links, there is no About page, and project pages are image-only. The contact page gives a London studio address, phone number, email and his agent, Dutch Uncle.

What stands out: Famous work shown with almost no interface around it.

12. Martyna Wędzicka-Obuchowicz (WEDZICKA)

Built with: Squarespace

Martyna Wędzicka-Obuchowicz designs posters, visual identities and screenprints in Poland, and her site opens on a red header bar above a dense four-column grid. Captions read like credits, naming the agency, art director, photographer and venue.

Her navigation is unusually practical: a media kit, a press pack and an FAQ written for students and journalists sit beside the work, and posters and socks are for sale. The About page says she is “Always open for new challenges, projects and people”.

What stands out: An FAQ that answers students’ and journalists’ questions before they ask.

13. Pablo Delcan

Built with: Custom code

Pablo Delcan designs editorial covers, book covers, posters and title sequences for clients including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Apple and Nike. His Work page is a long list running from New York Times Magazine covers to the Killing Eve title sequence and covers for Jeff VanderMeer.

The homepage opens on a full-bleed slideshow for his own book, Prompt-Brush, whose cover bills it as “The First Non-AI Generative Art Model”, and a shop sells prints and caps. The Information page tells the studio’s story, from New York to a barn in the Catskills.

What stands out: Self-initiated work given the same billing as the commissions.

14. Hayley Lim

Built with: Cargo

Hayley Lim is an early-career art director and designer, and her homepage is a typeset table instead of a thumbnail grid: number, project, one-line description, discipline and year, with a toggle between design and film. The Chinese character 林 serves as her logo.

Case studies give context, concept and credits. For Studio du Soleil she separates her art direction from the work of the creative director and designers, and for boxer Artur Beterbiev she drew lettering from traditional Chechen dress.

What stands out: A homepage that reads like a table of contents.

15. Leandro Assis (Lebassis)

Built with: WordPress

Leandro Assis, who works as Lebassis, is a lettering artist and art director in Rio de Janeiro. His navigation is a row of colourful icon buttons, and one of them says Hire, so commissioning him starts on the first screen.

The grid shows lettering captioned by discipline and year, including promo lettering for RuPaul’s Drag Race made with Studio Moross and a YouTube Yoodle for Brazil’s National Day of Funk. His About page says he uses design to talk about Black culture, gender and LGBTQ+ rights.

What stands out: Hire as a top-level button.

16. Emil Kozole

Built with: Cargo

Emil Kozole is a designer in Ljubljana working across graphic design, book design and design technology, and his work page is one long scroll in which every project gets a large image, a paragraph of explanation and press links.

The ideas carry the page: an album by the rap trio Matter released as a book instead of a CD, and Arhiv Triglav, a four-year project documenting every Slovenian logo that uses Mount Triglav. His About page doubles as a CV, from Central Saint Martins to shows at the V&A and Tokyo TDC.

What stands out: Idea-led projects, each explained in a paragraph.

17. Marie Boulanger

Built with: Squarespace

Marie Boulanger is a type designer and art director in London, and her portfolio puts custom typefaces such as Faubourg and Aligre Regular, a Fleischman Antiqua revival, next to brand work for Monotype, Fedrigoni and Belmond.

The typographer’s playfulness reaches the interface: every project caption carries a dingbat, and the intro invites you to “browse through at your own pace”. Project write-ups are short but credit her printer and web developer.

What stands out: Credits for the printer and developer, not just the designer.

18. Elena Miska

Built with: WordPress

Elena Miska works across brand identity, editorial, title design and art direction for clients such as the Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, Adidas Originals and Airbnb. Each tile in her staggered two-column grid carries a one-line description and a service tag, so the grid reads like a list of briefs.

Project pages add a short context paragraph and full crew credits; her titles for a Whitney exhibition film featuring the dancers of Alvin Ailey name the director, director of photography, choreographer and music. The Information page fits services, clients and press into three short columns.

What stands out: Captions that sum up each brief in one line.

19. Christian Meissner

Built with: Cargo

Christian Meissner is an early-career motion designer who treats motion as “a foundational design material” for identities. His homepage holds eight numbered projects in a narrow left column, with large stills filling the rest of the screen.

Each project page gives a short concept paragraph, his role and the team credits, for clients including The Branch Museum of Design, MullenLowe and Apple Music. His awards include a D&AD Yellow Pencil for the MullenLowe rebrand and ADC Young Guns, and a contact form, email and phone are on the Information page.

What stands out: Eight projects and nothing else on the homepage.

20. Anthony Burrill

Built with: WordPress

Anthony Burrill makes letterpress posters and typographic print in Rye, East Sussex, and his homepage is a single full-bleed photograph of black-and-white wood type. The navigation gives Showcase, Shop, Archive and Profile equal weight.

Project write-ups are short, and the Profile page lists work in the permanent collections of the V&A, the Design Museum and Cooper Hewitt. The footer even credits the site’s own designer and developer, and his email address sits in the navigation.

What stands out: A shop that sits beside the portfolio without taking it over.

21. Tobias Hall

Built with: Adobe Portfolio

Tobias Hall is a hand-lettering artist whose clients include KFC, Cadbury, Netflix and The Rolling Stones. For JKR’s KFC rebrand he drew the Finger Lickin’ Good lettering and a redrawn Colonel.

A left sidebar lists about 50 projects by client name beside a tight three-column grid of colour-blocked tiles, so the client list itself becomes the pitch. Screen prints are sold through a Big Cartel shop, and it is the best Adobe Portfolio site we found.

What stands out: A sidebar of client names that works as a credentials list.

22. Rory Stiff

Built with: Webflow

Rory Stiff is an early-career designer in London working across visual identity, type, motion and art direction, with clients including Puma, Williams Racing, the V&A and 4AD. A loose collage of thumbnails sits over an index where every entry is tagged by discipline and date.

The index reads like a work log, so range and recency show at a glance. His Info page is a plain CV listing the studios he has worked at, including DNCO and NB Studio, his first-class degree, and his email and phone.

What stands out: An index that logs every job by discipline and date.

23. Joy Li

Built with: WordPress

Joy Li is a Sydney graphic designer and illustrator whose work centres on Chinese-Australian culture, from a Lunar New Year campaign for SBS to projects called Secret Snacks and CNY Survival Guide. Other clients include Adobe, Nike and Microsoft.

A scrolling marquee bio runs under the navigation, and the three-column grid filters between design and illustration. Her Info page lists talks at AGDA, Sydney Design Festival and UTS and invites project chats, and a shop sits alongside the work.

What stands out: A clear cultural point of view running through the client work.

24. Giorgos Papadakis

Built with: Astro

Giorgos Papadakis is an independent identity designer in Athens, and his opening screen shows no projects at all: just a one-sentence positioning line, a giant ligatured monogram and a live clock. The monogram does the job of a first portfolio piece.

The work follows as a project list with short descriptions, and a Flow page offers a visual feed with shuffle and size controls. His About page cites TDC New York, European Design Awards and Red Dot recognition from his years at G Design Studio.

What stands out: A monogram-led first screen that doubles as a sample of the craft.

25. Sera Aksoy

Built with: Squarespace

Sera Aksoy is an early-career designer and Parsons Communication Design graduate working in visual identity, editorial and moving image, between New York and Istanbul. Instead of a thumbnail grid, pill buttons sort her work by where it was made: her job at TMWRK, Parsons, and her free time.

That split lets a reader separate professional work from coursework in one click. Her thesis project, The Circle of Existence, is documented with its concept, and the contact page opens with “Let’s Work Together” above an email and phone number.

What stands out: Work sorted by job, school and free time.

What the best graphic design portfolios have in common

Work comes first, or a deliberate idea does. Nearly every portfolio here shows real work before you scroll. The few that don’t commit to one strong device instead: Giorgos Papadakis’s monogram and clock, Hayley Lim’s typeset index, Sera Aksoy’s sorting buttons. A screen-filling name or a portrait alone gives a visitor nothing to judge.

Explain as much as the discipline needs. Book covers and posters can be shown as images with a title and client, as Linda Huang and Jon Gray do, because the object explains itself. Identity work needs the reasoning: Mackey Saturday, Kelli Anderson and Ingrid Picanyol all say what problem the design solved. An image-only identity portfolio reads as thin; an essay under every book cover would be padding.

Credit the team and name your role. Daniel Brokstad lists the whole agency team on his Uber project, Hayley Lim separates her art direction from the creative director’s work, and Elena Miska credits the full film crew. Big-brand work shown without a role line invites the question of who actually did it.

Contact and availability are the most neglected parts. Fewer than half of the portfolios we shortlisted show a contact route on the first screen, and some strong sites have none on the homepage at all. Leandro Assis puts Hire in the main navigation, Jessica Hische gives every service its own page, and senior designers such as Bráulio Amado and Jon Gray route commercial work through an agent.

Juniors show a CV; seniors show proof. Victoria Escobar and Rory Stiff publish a readable CV with education, studios and internships. Established designers replace it with press and awards lists, as Linda Huang and Christian Meissner do. Either way, the reader learns who you are without downloading anything.

A shop belongs beside the work, not in front of it. Anthony Burrill, Martyna Wędzicka-Obuchowicz, Pablo Delcan and Tobias Hall sell prints, books and more from the main navigation, which signals a self-directed practice. The weak version opens on a workshop promotion and a mailing-list pop-up before any work appears.

Upkeep shows. Maintenance slips are common even on excellent portfolios: a project page printing a PHP warning above the content, a press list that stopped years ago, an Info link that returns a 404 and leaves the site with no bio or contact. Click through your own site as a stranger would, page by page, before sending the link to anyone.

Structure matters more than the platform. Cargo is the most common choice among graphic designers here, followed by Squarespace and WordPress with Semplice. What makes the best sites memorable is a structural idea: Kelli Anderson’s numbered index, Bráulio Amado’s one-sentence navigation, Tereza Bettinardi’s letterhead header and Linda Huang’s covers-only grid.

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Wrapping Up

A graphic design portfolio is judged by its first screen and its first project, so the strongest ones put real work up front, explain it as far as the discipline needs, credit collaborators honestly and make hiring the designer easy.

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