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Freelance Folios for August

We are pleased to be starting our new regular Freelance Folios feature today, and we have three freelancers’ portfolios to show you for this month.

Peter Rose

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Peter is a creative who specialises in advertising and brand creation campaigns as an independent consultant. His career has included success as a Creative Director, both in the UK and internationally. His work has won awards including D&AD, Cannes Lions, The Clios, One Show New York and many others.

Emma Hackney

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Emma is an artworker and designer in the UK who started her career as a typesetter in a publishing house, but then moved on to artwork and design. With almost 9 years experience in the industry now she has worked on everything from logo designs to 60 page publications.

Donna Vitan

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Donna is a web designer from Canada who’s working in Australia for the year. She describes herself as “a graphic and web designer with a love for creative solutions, a mind for clean code and web standards compliance, and expertise in developing attractive, accessible and kick-ass websites”. Her website was built using WordPress with her own custom designed theme, using Photoshop, Notepad++ and her own photos.



Many thanks to Peter, Emma and Donna for sending in their portfolio details.

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20 excellent portfolio guides and resources

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Getting your portfolio right is important as a freelancer, as you need to market yourself well. And if you work for creative agencies you will probably need both an online and and offline version.

To help you, I’ve gathered this big list of great resources:

Online portfolios

Free tools
Read How to get a free online portfolio – our own definitive article on the free tools available on the web.

Portfolio inspiration

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Folio Focus A gallery of portfolio websites

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DesignM.ag 50 excellent designer portfolio sites

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Folio Stars A gallery of portfolio websites

How to build an online portfolio

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Spoon Graphics How to build your own single page portfolio website

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Net Tuts How to build a website from scratch

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Woo themes Themes for WordPress blogs

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Smashing Magazine Guide to using WordPress for a portfolio

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Think Dave Recommended PSD to WordPress service

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Net Tuts Design and code your first website in easy steps

Portfolio tips

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Freelance Switch Build a killer online portfolio in 9 easy steps

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Webdesigner Depot Creating the perfect portfolio
Webdesigner Depot 10 characteristics of excellent portfolio sites

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Smashing Magazine 10 steps to the perfect portfolio website

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Webitect Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Portfolios

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Designious Times Top 10 websites to submit your design portfolio

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DesignM.ag 9 Ways to Get Your Design Portfolio Seen


Offline (physical) portfolios

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PSD Tuts Preparing and talking about your graphic design portfolio

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Just Creative Design The Innovative one page resume & portfolio
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Flaunt A book about designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work.

Do you know of any other good resources or have tips? Please share them in the comments below.

Handy portfolio tip: Business cards or postcards make great hand-outs or conversation starters offline. With MOO.com you can print a different image on every card – print your whole portfolio for a tiny cost!