Do I still need an online portfolio?

Today, someone asked to see some samples of my design work and I remembered that I currently don’t have an online portfolio. I’ve always maintained a portfolio page on my personal site and kept it updated.¹ But my career path has changed… My primary creative outlets are my type designs and my random Cotton Bureau merch and I have links with samples of those sites. When I migrated Sketchbook B to Micro.Blog last summer, I chose not to rebuild my “work samples” page with my branding work. This was an intentional choice — I’m not looking for design work and I figured I didn’t need it — but now I’m second guessing my choice. I’ve obviously still got all of my portfolio images. I’m going to think through what work I want to include, and I’ll probably pull something together on this site at some point. You just never know when someone will ask to see it.

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Bob Wertz is a type designer, Ph.D. student and researcher living in Columbia, South Carolina. He’s been a designer since 1997 and a blogger since 2008.