The importance of a unique, memorable and well designed blog, especially within the design community, should not be underestimated – First impressions will always count and your blog gives you an opportunity to showcase your skills and highlight how professional and serious you are as a designer.

For most web designers, designing an original blog shouldn’t be a problem, the difficulty lies in trying encapsulate your blog writing style and character within the design – That is the tricky part.

In this article that is exactly what we have done, showcased 50 amazing personal blog designs that successfully capture the character of the designer.

Clean Blog Designs

Brian Hoff

Ed Nacional

Krisztian Puska – z8

Rientola

Trent White – TWhite Design

Zander Martineau – Rather Splendid

Julian Wilson

Justin Windle – Soulwire

Adelle Charles

Make Film Work

Bedrich Ríos

Mercy

Ray Glover – Cynosura's Weblog

David DeSandro

Illustration Blog Designs

Kilian Muster

Chris Kaufman

Nick La – N.Design

Jason Gray

D Bnonn Tennant – Information Highwayman

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A portfolio design is a reflection of the skills and talents of the designer that owns it. Often, the hardest web design is creating your own portfolio, and thus, can take a lot of the designer’s time to create and finish. This collection is a follow up of the showcase called, "25 Impressive Portfolio Web Designs" which you should view as well.

Feast your eyes on some of the web’s most beautiful online portfolios.

1. camellie

2. Fool’s House

3. Ed Peixoto – I create Flavors

4. COO/COO CORE Graphic

5. n.design studio

6. Fully Illustrated

7. Attack of the Web

8. Ekin Yalgin

9. Twenty3design

10. Jirí Šebek

11. Nathan Sanders

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