Recently I wrote an article on
resume/CV templates available for free, or to purchase, from all across the web. They ranged from print media, to fully fledged, CMS run pages. That’s all fine and well, and they are all fantastic templates, but what if you want to express yourself through your CV? Plenty people do, and the result is some stunning CV’s that potential employers are reading. Below I’ve round-up 40 incredible resume designs that some great designers have created for themselves from DeviantArt, in the hope that they will inspire you to create your own stunning piece of work to represent yourself.
The designer here has used fruit, and the caption “Full of Vitamin Creativity” to appeal to
A lovely background texture with a spotlight effect creates a beautiful backdrop for this resume.
The paint splash here shows the artists creative side.
This resume has been lain out beautifully with lines, and the logo merging well.
I’m not sure whats with the tilting trend, but I love it here, especially with the name centrepiece.
This resume appeals to an employers humorous side with a horror film poster theme.
A personal favourite, beautiful colours, nothing over the top, and plenty information.
This resume also takes on the arty poster persona, and it works brilliantly!
With bold, attention grabbing titles, and the use of lime green, this is an eye catcher.
This artist uses the contrast between the black and white to separate the headings, and information which works incredible well.
Subtle but powerful, this resume puts typography to its uses with its awesome header.
An update to a previous resume, this time with less bold headers, but equally powerful.
Clever usage of colour and outlines mixed with a different choice of typeface make this resume stand out, but maybe less readable.
The fact that is an artists resume is instantly apparent with the media images alongside the persons skills and education.
Getting personal with rabbit/squirrel gives an insight into the personality of this resume’s owner.
The avatar here alone, and the bright colours used show this persons love for colour, and art.
This resume makes use of browns and greys, and along with the logo, and title font, gives a nice old feel.
Beautiful graphics are used here to get across the information in a pleasant way whilst showing off the authors skills.
A mix of gradients and splashes here work well alongside a personal picture to sell this person’s resume.
An absolutely stunning infographic style resume which shows Steve Duncan’s life in a sort of time-line.
A interesting usage of a train/underground map to show this persons life paths.
Getting fairly personal with this resume which shows what the user has around them.
Making use of a waiters notepad to get a job as a waiter? Very clever!
This resume gives the feel of old school ink printing for this Graphic Designer.
This black and white CV shows creative things that interest the applicant.
Another life info-graphic here, though I did find it slightly harder to follow.
The oriental nature of this resume is perfect, especially in making it look more arty.
The curly brackets, texture, and drop shadow used in this resume allow it to have some depth, making it almost look like a scrap book style resume.
The bright colour, shades of purple, and beautiful typography here work. They work incredibly well!
Very bright and cartoony. It’s certainly an attention grabber.
This is as much a piece of artwork as it is a resume. Absolutely stunning.
A less illustrative, but equally informative info-graphic here.
Again, the use of bright colours on the time-line gives an artistic feel.
Simple and to the point, this resume puts the information down, and subtly registers the persons interest in art.
I’m unsure how practical this is, but you can’t deny its intricate beauty.
Rotation here is used to split up the text, and create easily definable sections without having to create dividers.
Very personal, this takes the approach of being cartoony and artistic, but it doesn’t offer much of a professional feel.
A purely lack and white CV that gets across all the info in a clean and precise way.
A very creative approach to a resume. Instead of a piece of paper, what about slide out cards?
The grungy texture, and flowing icons really top this resume off.
Further Discussion
Well there you have it; 40 truly inspiring examples of how you can get across more than just your life achievements in your CV / Resume, but show off your creative, and illustrative side as well. If you know of further fantastic examples of inspiring Resume designs, then as always, get them down in the comments for us all to see!
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Matt is an 18 year old web designer from Scotland, UK. He loves creating beautiful websites across different platforms. High on his things to learn fully are Jquery and php. He is extremely excited by css3 and html5 and can't wait to see them rolled out fully. To learn more about Matt, follow him
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