There are a lot of new designers out there without a website, but the internet has made it easy for you to display your work without having to buy a domain name. I’m 100% for making my own website, but then again i did go to web design school.
This is a selection of online community’s that lets you display your creative work and also, lets you network with other designers.
Coroflot is the largest, most established, most diverse pool of professional creative portfolios in the world.
DeviantART aims to provide a place for any artist, both emerging and professional talents, to exhibit and discuss works of art. With over 12 million registered members and 100 million submissions, deviantART is the world’s largest art community.
Creative thinkers – the people with the most ideas – often struggle the most with organization and productivity. We aim to change that. So we design products & services that organize the creative world.
Spraygraphic is a free online community for Creative Minds. Our site allows members to share their Art, Design,Activism, Travel Adventures, and Activities with each other. The Spraygraphic Community is dedicated to bringing creative people together
Social Design Network’s mission is to inspire social consciousness through design. We connect people who want to explore ways that design can positively impact our communities – ways that are thoughtful, informed, creative and responsible.
design:related™ is a community site and inspiration tool that brings together creative people from different disciplines (and parts) of the design world. design:related™ serves to motivate designers to share ideas, inspire, and be inspired.
Society6 is where artists promote each others’ work, and collaborate with brands to create and sell collectible art.
Flickr – almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world
We built Carbonmade because we needed something that would organize our own work. It turned out so well that we decided to share it with all of you. In February 2006, we began spending our off hours tinkering with Carbonmade and within a year we began working full-time and haven’t looked back since. With feedback from our ever-growing community and lots of nerdy elbow grease, it has become something that we are quite proud of.
SHOWN’D aims to provide users with a centralized hub to maintain a portfolio and secure employment. Our powerful tools and clean design makes sure to keep the focus on the artist and their vision. Employers benefit from the vast array of creative professionals and artwork displayed on the web site as well as the tools provided for sorting through the various showcases.
Artists from the entire creative spectrum, from architects to writers, make SHOWN’D their home.
A showcase for artist’s portfolio websites with an emphasis on individuals, rather than agencies and studios. There is a great range of style here, from digital design to traditional art.
Quickly organize your work in our beautiful template. Designed for creatives with impossibly high standards, and built to the specification of creative recruiters at companies that already use Krop to find talent.
Our platform let creative people publish and aggregate their personal stuff from other websites. Computerlove is stillin beta. We do not accept more members for the moment !
Artician is a community for creative professionals. We allow artists, designers, photographers, and other creative individuals to build completely personalized portfolios for free. Artician provides an effortless way for anyone to create and manage a portfolio in a professional or personal environment.
A web design community and design blog since 1996, Digitalthread selects only the best-of-the-best web design firms, top design companies, online portfolios, graphic design studios, design books, web design resources, design jobs, conferences, design schools… and collects all of these cool links and inspirations in one place.
community.wacom.com/groups/graphic-design
Inspired by natural human abilities to create, our patented pen and touch input technology allows freedom of expression, inspired creativity, and drastic improvements in productivity, control and comfort. From product development and graphic design to the media and entertainment sectors, Wacom facilitates the work of individuals and workgroups with truly natural ways to work with digital content.
Superb resources time to start networking
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Creative Director Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 12:37 am
Hey thanks Johnny I will be posting more great post like this one.
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Great way to start the week off with this post.
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Creative Director Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
thanks for the comment
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Nice post! This is very helpful, thanks!
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Great list of sites, thank you very much.
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Creative Director Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
you welcome James thanks for the the comment and stopping by.
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Great list, didn’t know most of these! Time to get posting methinks. Thanks.
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Another community is Redbubble.com if anyone wants to look into that.
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Thanks ! strange that I haven’t heard of many these! nice post!
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thanks for the comments
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Thanks fr sharing this, this a great list to showcase ur work and also gud for networking
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Cool list.. this is very helpful for budding designers…
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cool stuff…. what about list of websites where you can post you layout designs? like patterntap, cssmania etc? will we be seeing anything of that sort any time soon?
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Creative Director Reply:
July 1st, 2010 at 8:41 am
I should do a post like that.
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Oh if there were only this many professional portfolio sites for freelance writers.
Great post here!
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Creative Director Reply:
July 1st, 2010 at 8:41 am
I like to think all website can look just as great =)
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Great list of resources!
Sorry if this sounds self-promotional, but I just launched a brand new site that I think could fit into this category as well.
http://cssactivity.com is a site that takes automatic screenshots of websites that inspire you. Its a visual social bookmarking site for web designers.
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i know only DeviantArt and Flickr , Others are new for me. Thanks for sharing.
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Its a very nice collection and great effort to provide some platform to individual designers, thanks for share
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very very cool links. will certainly help the aspiring and professional designers for sure.
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Deviant art is the best I think. Really good artists and so many different examples of it. I do like this site: http://plewto.com it has some good art from whoever makes it, and then there is another site I found that has great art from this woman, but I think her site is down now. She had some REALLY great sci-fi art she did in Photoshop. I am seeing if I have the wrong site or not, but I keep searching for her work.
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Creative Director Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 11:23 am
Thanks for the links
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http://www.neongrid.com allows you to define your skills as a creative and upload works in a variety of media types. Also let’s you define a custom unbranded cover page. zero charge for anything it seems
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