February's Portfolio Squeeze is a little late, so I'll get right into it. Here are the best design portfolio websites found in February. Be on the lookout for the March edition coming very soon!

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A Dense, Chaotic, Lively Portfolio Website

Anton Repponen

This design portfolio website is chaotic. But I love it.

Anton is an interaction designer based in New York and one half of the design studio Anton & Irene (they make really cool stuff). Anton has had a very full creative career spanning over 20 years. While his portfolio website might seem chaotic at first sight, everything is placed and organized with intention. And that goes for his entire site.

Knowing that Anton is half of an operating design studio, his personal portfolio website might not be his biggest priority. However, one reason I like it so much is that it feels very up-to-date, current, and alive. It showcases everything Anton has made or is interested in up until this very day.

Anton dedicates his entire homepage to only his design work. In the navigation, design work is first, followed by photography, visual archive, and speaking engagements. All of his hobbies and outside interests inform his design work. For example, his photography helps inspire projects like Time Flow and Time Stretched. The Storage page shows his process and sources of inspiration.

In my opinion, this is a perfect example of how to incorporate your interests outside of design into your portfolio website. Keep them separate. Make your design work the first thing people see. Ensure everything included contributes to your presentation as a designer.

Score: 8.8/10

Built with: Cargo

View portfolio here

Squeezed This Month

A Portfolio Website With No Work?

Guillaume Beaulieu

Score: 7.7/10

Built with: Webflow

Read full review here

This Portfolio Website Screams Take My Money!

Sierra Ching

Score: 9.6/10

Built with: Framer

Read full review here

How to Get Paid for Your Ideas

Jia

Score: 8.3/10

Built with: Framer

Read full review here

This Portfolio Website Blew My Mind

Robert Borghesi

Score: 9.8/10

Built with: Custom Code

Read full review here

Review Rewind

How to Unify Client Projects, Passion Projects, and Experiments

Portfolio Review #136

• How to format your design portfolio website homepage

• What design projects to showcase and how on your portfolio website

• Presenting your process and not just final deliverables

• How to present deliverables in-situation

Watch full video review here

The Squeeze

Do You Need to Brand Yourself for Your Portfolio Website?

In my portfolio reviews, I get a lot of questions about branding yourself as a graphic designer. Do you need a logo? Brand colors? How should you talk about yourself? Studio? Freelancer?

These are all valid questions. But sometimes they are a way to procrastinate or distract from more important things. Instead, ask yourself:

What is my objective right now in this very moment?

Do you want a job? Take clients? Freelance for studios? Work with big companies? From there, other questions like logos and brand colors will make sense in context.

I like to think of a portfolio website as a picture frame: fonts, colors, layout, and negative space are the frame. What really matters is what you put inside that frame.

What will you put inside that frame? If you’re struggling, shoot me a reply here.

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