30 Best Squarespace Portfolio Examples 2026 (By Role)
A strong Squarespace portfolio shows the work in the first screen, explains each project on its own page and makes the next step obvious, whether that is booking a call, buying a print or sending a brief. The sites below do this with the platform’s own tools, from portfolio pages to Commerce and Acuity Scheduling. If you would rather start from a finished design, browse our Squarespace portfolio templates.
The list is grouped by role, because a UX case study, an architect’s project sheet and a painter’s price list solve different problems. We opened every site, confirmed from its own code that it still runs on Squarespace and noted whether it uses version 7.0 or 7.1. Where a site’s scripts name its template, we say so; otherwise we do not guess.
Graphic Design Portfolios on Squarespace
Graphic designers are hired on taste and on fit, so the useful Squarespace sites show a range of clients quickly and then say, in a line, what the designer actually did.
1. Liam Foster
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Liam Foster, a brand designer in Kent, answers a client’s first questions before they email. Next to the portfolio, his Squarespace site has a five-step process page, from brief to delivery, and an FAQ that says a standard logo project usually takes 2-4 weeks.
The portfolio is a list of one-line summaries, such as Sokito’s eco-friendly football boots, so a client can spot a comparable brand fast. He also builds client sites on Squarespace and writes about it, including a post of SEO tips for design portfolios.
What stands out: Publish the process and the timeline, not only the results.
2. Alex McDaris
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Alex McDaris is an art director at Arc Worldwide, and his homepage reads like a fast-food campaign reel: Arby’s Thanksgiving photography, a Dunkin’ x Wicked For Good takeover of Boston’s North Station, an Ice Spice Munchkins drink.
Each project page opens with a single line naming his part in it, such as storyboarding, design and art direction, before any images. The About page offers a résumé download, and the contact page suggests chain restaurants, reality TV or his cats as an icebreaker.
What stands out: Say what you did on each project in one line.
3. Clara De Lorenzi
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Clara De Lorenzi, a freelance graphic designer and illustrator in Milan, splits her menu into Illustration and Graphic Design, so each kind of client sees the relevant half first. The project index is a plain list of names, from the Massime dal Passato book series for the publisher Le Lucerne to brand identities.
Her Shop runs on Squarespace Commerce and sells ex libris stamps, from a zodiac collection at €32 to a fully custom design at €56, a product that grows out of her print and illustration work.
What stands out: Turn a signature skill into something people can buy.
4. Elizabeth Goodspeed
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Elizabeth Goodspeed treats writing as part of the portfolio, not a sideline. A separate Writing page, headed Commissions + Editing, lists her monthly Editor-at-Large column for It’s Nice That beside pieces for Fast Company and AIGA Eye on Design and her Casual Archivist newsletter on design history.
For an identity and print designer, that record does real work: a client can read how she thinks before briefing her. The project pages get the same care, with long write-ups such as her Framework 105 book for Parsons.
What stands out: If you write about your field, give the writing its own page.
5. Jon Gray (gray318)
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Jon Gray’s gray318 is one of the few sites here whose template can be named from its own code: its scripts identify Flatiron, a Squarespace 7.0 design made for image indexes. It suits a cover designer.
The index is a wall of covers, each showing its title and a small view label on hover, and every cover opens on its own page with a one-line caption naming the book, author and publisher, such as Zadie Smith’s Grand Union for Hamish Hamilton. His agent, Dutch Uncle, is on the contact page.
What stands out: An image index works when the covers are the argument.
For graphic designers on every platform, browse our graphic design portfolio examples.
UX and Product Design Portfolios on Squarespace
A UX portfolio lives or dies on its case studies. These sites use plain Squarespace pages to make long write-ups easy to scan and to point each reader at the case that matters to them.
6. Katie McCurdy
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Katie McCurdy’s Work page is a Squarespace portfolio page used well. Every tile names the project and then the kind of work it took, such as research, strategy and prototyping for hospital wayfinding, or product research and design for an autoimmune coaching service, so a hiring manager can scan for the skill they need.
The site adds a Talks page of healthcare and design conference sessions and a résumé link, and her strongest case is her own company, Pictal Health, a health-history visualization product.
What stands out: Label every project with the work it involved.
7. Julia Costa
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Julia Costa’s portfolio runs on Montauk, a Squarespace 7.0 template named in the site’s own scripts, and she uses its short top menu to split the work into Design and Research.
The Research page is a grid of studies for retail brands, such as a secret-shopper study for Purple Mattress and a customer journey map for American Eagle, and each case sets out goals, her role, methods and analysis in the same order. A résumé download on the About page covers work from Pandora to consulting for Zendesk.
What stands out: Give research its own menu item if research is what you sell.
8. Havana Nguyen
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Havana Nguyen opens her UX Portfolio page with three questions that route the reader, each linked to one case: an end-to-end redesign, a nonprofit site that helped bring in $3M in donations, and an eConsent product that reached a new market. A grid of a dozen case studies follows.
She is also a comic artist, and rather than hide it, her menu gives digital and traditional art their own pages, next to a blog and a press page split into UX, art and comics.
What stands out: Point each reader to the case that answers their question.
9. Anurag Dommeti
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Anurag Dommeti’s case studies open with a four-part summary strip of challenge, role, team and timeframe, so the scope is clear before the story starts. His accessible design system for McGraw-Hill shows why that helps: the goal was WCAG 2.0 AA compliance for student users, and the write-up lists the criteria that met it, such as text that resizes to 200% and reflows at 400%.
His About page says plainly that he is looking for his next role, with a résumé, email and phone number.
What stands out: Summarise the scope before the case begins.
See more case-study-led sites in our UX portfolio examples.
Illustration and Art Portfolios on Squarespace
Illustrators and fine artists sell commissions, originals and prints, so their Squarespace sites double as shops, price lists and exhibition records.
10. Lisa Maltby
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Lisa Maltby gives her most bookable service a landing page. The map illustration page says who commissions maps, from heritage organisations and universities to publishers and visitor attractions, then lists the projects that prove it, such as trails for Chatsworth House and maps for Sarasota Magazine and Eurostar.
Each project post ends with a Get a Quotation button, and her map of Sheffield is also sold as a print. The page reads like a service brochure rather than a gallery.
What stands out: Give your best-selling service a page of its own.
11. Luke Adam Hawker
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Luke Adam Hawker sells the way a printmaker works. His etchings are Squarespace Commerce products listed edition by edition, so each numbered Rain Dancer print has its own £425 listing, and an announcement bar invites visitors onto a Collectors List for the next etching drop.
The homepage reads like a diary of where to find him, from market stalls in Guildford and Herne Hill to a tree trail with the National Trust at Stourhead, and a Books page lists the publishers of The Last Tree language by language.
What stands out: Let collectors sign up before the next edition sells out.
12. Kyle Steed
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Kyle Steed, a painter and muralist in Dallas, runs two practices from one sidebar menu. The art side has an Available Works page where each painting gets its size, medium and a price-on-request note, plus a C.V. of solo shows. The mural side lists walls for lululemon, Warby Parker and the Texas Rangers.
Separate email addresses divide commercial requests from commissions, and a press list, including Texas Monthly’s 10 Texas Artists to Collect Now, gives collectors a reason to ask.
What stands out: Keep one address for commissions and another for commercial work.
13. Samantha Keely Smith
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Samantha Keely Smith’s site behaves like a quiet gallery. The homepage holds only her name and an Enter link. Inside, the paintings are filed by period in a sidebar, each captioned like a wall label with its size in inches and oil on canvas, and sold works are marked as sold, which makes the available ones obvious without a shop.
An Exhibitions page lists her solo shows, including one at Jane Lombard Gallery in New York, and the contact page offers a newsletter for collectors.
What stands out: Mark what has sold so collectors see what is still available.
14. Gina Kirlew
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Gina Kirlew, a cartoonist and illustrator from New York now living in Oslo, sells commissions like products. Her Squarespace shop lists custom digital portraits from $25, with full-body add-ons from $45, so a buyer can order without asking for a quote.
The rest stays simple: the Art page is a portfolio page split into paintings, illustrations and design, a separate Etsy link sits in the menu, and the contact page opens with what she is taking on now: commissions, collaborations, licensing and freelance work.
What stands out: Price small commissions so people can simply buy them.
For more illustrators, from picture books to editorial work, see our illustration portfolio examples.
Architecture Portfolios on Squarespace
Architects sell long, expensive projects, so the best practice sites give each building the facts a client weighs: where it is, what the brief was, who led it and how the work was delivered.
15. Emmanuelle Moureaux
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Emmanuelle Moureaux, a French architect based in Tokyo, needs a site that holds buildings and installations without mixing them up. Her menu divides the work into architecture, art, space and product, and the architecture index keeps built projects, such as Sugamo Shinkin Bank branches and a kindergarten, apart from her numbered 100 colors installations.
Project pages give the venue and city before the photos. The site runs on Flatiron, a Squarespace 7.0 template named in its own code.
What stands out: Split built work from other work so each audience finds its own.
16. Mark Watson Architects
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Mark Watson Architects, a RIBA chartered practice in Putney, writes each project page like a spec sheet. Under the story of a Fulham Victorian extension sit the RIBA work stages covered, the lead architect, a budget of £400,000, the contractor and a duration of 11.5 months, which answers a homeowner’s cost and timing questions before a call.
The Services page walks through four stages based on the RIBA Plan of Work, and the contact page says the first consultation, usually a visit to the property, is free.
What stands out: Put the budget and the duration on the project page.
17. Manson Associates
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Manson Associates, chartered architects and planning consultants in Edinburgh’s New Town, uses a Squarespace blog as its news desk, and that is what keeps the site current. Posts record planning wins and new schemes, such as consent for 208 student bedspaces on Bath Street in Glasgow and a regeneration vision for Dundee’s Keiller Centre.
The Work page names each scheme by street and city, and the Practice page lists the senior team, starting with director Ross Manson, each with a direct email.
What stands out: A news page shows clients the practice is winning work now.
18. Applied Studio
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Applied Studio, the London architecture and interiors practice founded by Patrick Abrams, designs mostly restaurants and hotels, and its Squarespace work index can be filtered by hospitality, office or residential.
Project pages open with a short fact panel of location, client, status and press, so the Legado page for chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho credits coverage in Wallpaper and The World of Interiors before explaining the design. The enquiry form asks for the project type and budget, adding that the budget can be worked out together.
What stands out: Let a fact panel put the press coverage first.
For architects and students on every platform, see our architecture portfolio websites.
Interior Design Portfolios on Squarespace
Interior designers sell a whole project, and often products and remote advice as well. These Squarespace sites give each of those its own place without crowding the portfolio.
19. Jessica Helgerson Interior Design
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Jessica Helgerson Interior Design, with offices in Portland and Paris, names every project after the house, such as Albee House, Forest House or Central Park West, and splits the list into residential and commercial work.
Project pages tell the house’s story, like how a historic Portland mansion was remodelled room by room with local mural artists, rather than listing finishes. The studio’s own product line, JH Shop, sells mirrors, rugs and lighting from the same menu, and a mailing list invites visitors to follow new products and projects.
What stands out: Name projects after the place, then tell its story.
20. Ghislaine Viñas
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Ghislaine Viñas, a New York designer known for colour, treats product design as a third portfolio beside residential and commercial work. The Product page shows each collaboration as a round tile named for the partner, from Flavor Paper to The Rug Company and Loll Designs, and explains which pieces are bought through the studio and which through partners.
A Video page collects house tours and interviews, and each residential project credits the architect and photographer in a single line.
What stands out: Give licensed products a portfolio of their own.
21. Designology Studio
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Designology Studio, with offices in Ventura and Santa Barbara, offers two ways into one portfolio: by project, or by room, so a client planning a kitchen can look only at kitchens. Project pages lead with the town and the scope, such as full remodel, furnishing and styling.
For clients farther away, a remote service called E-Designology and consulting retainers starting at 20 hours have their own page, and the contact form asks for the city and the type of service up front.
What stands out: Let clients browse by room as well as by project.
See more studios in our interior design portfolio examples.
Web Designer Portfolios on Squarespace
For a Squarespace web designer, the portfolio is also the product demo. These three sell builds, templates and plugins from the same platform they build on.
22. Devon Stank
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Devon Stank has built only on Squarespace for years, and his site sells that depth three ways: client builds, consulting and a Code Shop of plugins such as gallery grid captions, pricing tables and dropdown accordions. The My Work page tags each client, such as Elementary Coffee Co. or Java Brothers, with what he delivered, from web and e-commerce to photography.
The contact page separates support tickets for plugin buyers from project enquiries and general questions, and lists his phone hours.
What stands out: Give support, sales and general questions separate doors.
23. La Playa Studio
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
La Playa is a small studio on Lanzarote run by its founder, Náyade, and the site greets visitors with the local time and a note that it is a sunny one over there. Behind the charm is a practical build.
Every work page names the client’s domain and says the site was built on Squarespace, and the contact form asks what you need, your budget and whether you already have copy, photography and branding. Language buttons switch between English, German and Spanish, the three languages the studio works in.
What stands out: Ask what the client already has before you quote.
24. Kayleigh Noele
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Kayleigh Noele designs only on Squarespace, and her site shows a side of that business most designers skip: selling templates. The Template Store lists ready-made Squarespace sites, such as Chambers and Nest at £200 each, filterable by industry and by style.
Clients who want more book a Zoom consultation through an embedded Acuity Scheduling calendar, and existing clients log in to a portal for invoices, contracts and content uploads. One site works as the shop window, the booking desk and the client office.
What stands out: Offer a template tier below custom work.
For web designers who build on other platforms, see our web designer portfolios.
Photography Portfolios on Squarespace
Photography has its own page on Colorlib, so this section keeps to three portfolios that show a feature other roles can borrow.
25. Mike Kelley
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Mike Kelley photographs buildings for architects, and his site keeps that commissioned work apart from the pictures he makes for himself. An Art page gathers personal series such as Airportraits and LA Airspace, a Books page lists the titles he authored, and prints sell through a separate shop.
For clients, the Projects page credits the architect beside each building. Even the About link comes in two versions, business and fun, a light way to separate the credentials from the personality.
What stands out: Keep personal work on its own page so it never confuses a client.
26. Jessica Chou
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Jessica Chou’s site uses a Squarespace 7.0 template with a fixed sidebar, and she turns that sidebar into her credentials. Every commission is listed by subject and publication, such as Taika Waititi for WIRED or Steph Curry for Inc., so an editor sees the client roster on every page, even while looking at the photos.
Personal series such as Suburban Chinatown sit at the bottom of the same list, and the About page names her agent at B&A and her licensing through Trunk Archive.
What stands out: Title each project with the subject and the client.
27. Olga Miljko
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Olga Miljko, a commercial beauty and fashion photographer in Miami, shows clients where the pictures end up. Her Client Projects page presents the photos inside finished brand ads and web pages, which is what a brand manager is buying.
A Quote Your Project button stays in the header of every page, and the form behind it asks for the budget and whether the images will promote a business, the two answers that shape a commercial fee.
What stands out: Show the photos in use, not only on white.
For many more photographers on this platform, see our Squarespace photography examples.
Writer Portfolios on Squarespace
Writers cannot show a picture of their work, so these Squarespace sites lean on clear pricing, labelled samples and scope stated up front.
28. Kelsey O’Halloran
Built with: Squarespace 7.0
Kelsey O’Halloran, a Portland copywriter who started as a newspaper journalist, is open about the numbers most writers keep private: website projects start at $3,500 with payment plans, take 2-8 weeks, and 65% of her work comes from repeat clients.
The portfolio tags each client with an industry and a city, then offers a case study or a link to the live site. Her blog doubles as a case-study archive, and a Site Credits page names the studio that customised her Squarespace site.
What stands out: Publish the starting price and the timeline.
29. Belinda Roozemond
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Belinda Roozemond’s Services & Pricing page is a lesson in scoping. It opens with who she is a good fit for, then a What I Don’t Do list that rules out SEO strategy, product copy and writing in German, before a single price appears.
The rates follow per piece, from €800 for a blog post of about 1,200-1,500 words to €1,500 for a white paper, with lower prices for refreshing existing content. She is a B2B SaaS writer based in Germany, and saying no in public builds trust.
What stands out: List what you do not do next to your prices.
30. Paul Maplesden
Built with: Squarespace 7.1
Paul Maplesden organises his writing samples the way a B2B buyer searches: by topic, with the client named. Each portfolio entry is labelled as collected samples, a linked white paper or a case study, such as four articles for Blume Global on artificial intelligence in the supply chain.
The page ends with an FAQ about the portfolio itself, and a separate Guides section gives free advice to other freelancers, a quiet sign of a writer who has run his own business for a long time.
What stands out: Label each sample by format so buyers find the right one.
Read about more writers in our writer portfolio examples.
More Squarespace Examples and Templates
Related Squarespace pages on Colorlib, for more examples or a template to start from:
- Squarespace photography examples: photographers of every genre on the platform.
- Squarespace website examples: shops, restaurants, studios and personal sites beyond portfolios.
- WordPress portfolio examples: the same roles on WordPress, with the theme each site uses.
- Squarespace artist templates: designs for painters, illustrators and makers.
- Squarespace photographer templates: gallery-first templates for photographers.
- Squarespace architect templates: project-led designs for architects and studios.
- Squarespace designer templates: layouts for graphic, web and product designers.
- Squarespace writer templates: text-friendly designs for writers and authors.
What Makes a Great Squarespace Portfolio?
Use the grid to browse and the project page to explain. A Squarespace portfolio page, or an index on 7.0 templates such as Flatiron, is built for scanning, so the best sites keep the tiles short and put the detail inside. Katie McCurdy labels each tile with the work involved, Jon Gray lets the covers carry the index, and Mark Watson Architects puts the work stages, budget and duration on every project page.
Sell from the same site with Commerce. Squarespace’s store turns a portfolio into a shop without a second platform. Luke Adam Hawker lists each numbered etching as its own product, Clara De Lorenzi sells ex libris stamps, Gina Kirlew prices custom portraits and Kayleigh Noele sells ready-made templates. A separate shop works too, as Mike Kelley’s does, as long as it sits one click from the work rather than in its place.
Let people book or brief you on the site. Kayleigh Noele embeds Acuity Scheduling, Squarespace’s booking tool, so a consultation is booked without an email exchange. Where a call is not the first step, a Squarespace form can ask the qualifying questions: Olga Miljko asks for the budget and commercial use, Applied Studio for project type and budget, and La Playa for the copy and photography a client already has.
Make the template disappear. Several sites here still run on 7.0 templates, Flatiron for Jon Gray and Emmanuelle Moureaux and Montauk for Julia Costa, and none looks dated, because the work and the words lead. What gives a template away is leftover demo content: while checking candidates we found Squarespace placeholder text on a project page linked from an architect’s homepage and an empty folder page on a photographer’s site. Click every link once before you publish.
Add the pages a client checks next. A C.V., exhibition list, talks page or blog often persuades more than another project. Kyle Steed keeps a full C.V. of shows and murals, Samantha Keely Smith an exhibitions page and Katie McCurdy a list of talks. Squarespace’s blog is the simplest way to show a portfolio is current: Manson Associates records each planning win as a post, and Kelsey O’Halloran writes up client projects as posts.
Use your own domain and credit the builders. Every site in this list answers on its own domain; one architecture practice we checked could only be reached on a squarespace.com address, and we left it out. Credits help as well. La Playa’s case pages name each client’s domain and say the site was built on Squarespace, while Kelsey O’Halloran keeps a Site Credits page and Mark Watson Architects and Manson Associates name the studio that built their sites in the footer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Squarespace good for portfolios?
Yes, for most visual and creative roles. Its portfolio pages, galleries and templates handle large images well, and the same site can sell prints through Commerce, take bookings through Acuity Scheduling and run a blog. Every example on this page is a working professional’s own site built on it. Developers who want full control over their code usually choose other tools.
What is the difference between Squarespace 7.0 and 7.1?
Version 7.0 used separate templates, each with its own layout options, such as Flatiron and Montauk in this list. In 7.1 every site shares one flexible system, so a template is only a starting design and the look can change without switching templates. New Squarespace sites are built on 7.1, while existing 7.0 sites keep working, as several here show.
Is Squarespace better than Wix, Webflow or WordPress for a portfolio?
Squarespace is the quickest route to a polished portfolio, with hosting, a store and booking in one subscription. Wix allows more free-form layouts, Webflow gives designers finer control over custom interactions, and self-hosted WordPress is the most flexible but needs its own hosting and upkeep. For most creatives the deciding factor is which one they will keep updated.
Can I sell prints on a Squarespace portfolio?
Yes. Squarespace Commerce adds product pages, a cart and checkout to the same site, so prints, digital downloads and services can sit next to the portfolio. Luke Adam Hawker lists each numbered etching as its own product, and Gina Kirlew sells custom portraits. Some artists prefer a separate shop linked from the menu, as Mike Kelley does with his prints.
How many projects should a Squarespace portfolio show?
Show the kind of work you want more of: a tight selection of roughly six to twelve pieces, or three to five in-depth case studies for UX and product roles. Put them on one portfolio or index page as tiles and let each project page carry the explanation. Architects and interior designers can show fewer projects in more depth.
Can I use a custom domain with a Squarespace portfolio?
Yes. You can register a domain through Squarespace or connect one you already own, and the site then answers on that address instead of a squarespace.com subdomain. Every example on this page uses its own domain. A domain in your name looks more professional on a résumé or business card, and it stays yours if you ever change platforms.
Wrapping Up
The Squarespace portfolios above differ by role, but each one is built around its buyer: a hiring manager scanning case studies, a collector checking what is still available, a homeowner weighing budget and time. Pick the example closest to your own work and borrow the feature that fits.
For portfolios on every platform, start with our best portfolio website examples, or compare the Wix portfolio examples. Ready to build? Choose from our Squarespace portfolio templates or see the free portfolio website builders.
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