More free resources! Start your online presence by uploading your creative work in any of the following free platforms:
1. Coroflot – An employment community for designers: Make an online portfolio to promote your work. Browse portfolios or post design jobs.
Coroflot is the hands-down king of free online portfolios. It started out mainly as a venue for Industrial Designers (check out core77), and later on became expanded to include other disciplines such as graphic design, packaging, and architecture.
2. Behance Network - “A free platform for the worlds leading creative professionals”.
You can build a dynamic, multimedia portfolio of your latest projects, open to all or shared selectively ; Form groups (”circles”) gathered around interests, share content and get feedback ; Behance’s Tip Exchange provides insights for creative professionals, and throughout Behance one can access knowledge, services and products for the creative community ; Behance’s JobList features great work opportunities. Creative industry leaders use the Network to find, track and hire top talent.
3. Carbonmade – With Carbonmade, you can manage and showcase your online portfolio with a variety of tools that will allow you to change how you display your work.
4. Flickr - Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.
5. Free Blogs - You can start-up a portfolio site by signing-up for a free Blogger or Wordpress account. If you’d like to tell stories while sharing your creative work, a blog portfolio is for you.
6. deviantART – is an American online community with worldwide appeal showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. DeviantArt aims to provide a place for any artist to exhibit and discuss works. Works are organized in a comprehensive category structure, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, skins for applications and others, along with extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography.
7. Cafe Press – Not only you are uploading your works for free – they will also sell and produce it for you! Another potential source of residual income. Create and sell your own designs, photos and images on a wide variety of customizable products with zero upfront costs and zero inventory investment.
8. SHOWN’D – “Whether you’re a photographer, graphic or web designer , illustrator, writer, videographer , or ‘that guy’, you’re going to need a portfolio. That’s where SHOWN’D come in. Get your free online portfolio and connect with employers.”
9. Professional on The Web - Professional On The Web is a directory of web professional profile, projects and portfolio; tagged by their Know-How.
10. Etsy - A website that provides the general public with a way to buy and sell handmade items as well as vintage items and craft supplies. Handmade items cover a wide range including art, photography, clothing, jewelry, edibles, bath & beauty products, and toys. The site follows in the tradition of open craft fairs, giving sellers personal storefronts where they list their goods for a fee. It has been compared to “a crafty cross between Amazon and eBay”, and to “your grandma’s basement”.