Beautiful Minimalist Portfolio Websites of January 2018

Steven Wakabayashi
3 min readJan 12, 2018

These portfolio websites are not only beautifully built, they showcase their case studies in a simple, elegant framework.

Mitsugu Takahashi

Mitsugu Takahashi is a freelance Japanese designer in Tokyo.

Page-scroll-effects galore. Scroll down the page — you’ll be delighted you did. Just the right balance of subtle & play.

Ben Mingo

Ben Mingo is a graphic and interactive designer based in Southern California.

Simple, graceful and transitions, oh my! Scrolling is a little odd, but some of the most interesting ripple effects over images I’ve seen around.

Andre Ribeiro

Andre Ribeiro is a Brazilian born designer and art director living in Brooklyn, New York.

One of a stellar example of balancing a lot of content with simple taxonomy and well-designed whitespace. The animations are spectacular. Transitions all feel lightweight and airy.

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Stunning visualization and animation of various pages within a module. The page frame stays and the content carousels over.

Marc Gonçalves

Marc Gonçalves is a French digital designer.

Simple, straightforward and full-screen animations at the right time.

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On roll-over of the homepage links, you’ll be greeted with a full-screen animation

Andy H. Wei

Andy Wei is an artist from NYC.

Beautiful artwork, but even more than that — the pages are a work of art. Sharp, clean lines of the in-page elements, decorated with whimsical brushstrokes and lines.

Roll over the images in his About section to “brush” away the photos.

Tao Tajima

Tao Tajima is a director and film maker in Tokyo.

A phenomenal example of a film portfolio. Gorgeous “bubble” transition from work to work and seamless transition into the video player.

Sharing inspiration as it comes.

Cheers,

Steven.

Steven Wakabayashi

Creative unicorn with an avid curiosity of life. Regular dose of mindfulness, social commentaries, and creativity: mindfulmoments.substack.com