Two years ago, I discovered Behance through an MTV Playground ad on TV. I was still in high school, and looking for a place to showcase my work, so I quickly jotted down the address.

My first time on Behance Network I found a lot of great artwork and designers. I decided to publish some of my own personal artwork to my Behance portfolio, but didn’t feel my work was interesting enough yet. While looking for ways to improve my work, I discovered the article “Want your work to be featured? Tips from the Curatorial Team,” and I realized I needed to work on my presentation.

[Time Goes By project on the Behance Network]

After a few months, I became more engaged in the community on Behance. This was a place where I could communicate and discuss my work with people who were interested in the same things. The Behance Network allowed me to find and meet so many young creative people living in this world.
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A testimonial from Behance member Trevor Cleveland.

I joined Behance in early 2010 by the recommendation of a few friends. I lined up a couple job interviews in a very short period of time and had a really outdated portfolio. Behance made it really easy to update my portfolio without having to worry about coding a whole new site before my interviews. What’s really attractive about the site is how easy it makes it to keep an up-to-date portfolio for others to see.

Site Redesign for Stussy.com [Project Link]

After I landed that job I continued to publish new projects on Behance to keep my work fresh in the eyes of others. After a while I began inactively searching for a new job; always keeping my portfolio current and linked to my other networks. When LinkedIn added the ability to sync your Behance portfolio, I immediately set this up (and would recommend any creative on Behance to do it if you haven’t yet). Right away, I started to get contacted by companies for openings. One day I was contacted by Netflix – they had found my Behance portfolio on LinkedIn and told me they were very interested. After an extensive interview process, I was offered a position! Now, I work at Netflix as a Visual Designer and love my job. Read more →

A testimonial from Bram Vanhaeren, a 20 yr old Cross Media Design student in Belgium

I joined the Behance Network in 2007 when some friends introduced me to this network.  It was the first time I was surrounded by such a positive crowd of talented, creative people! Being young and always in search for the newest techniques and inspiration, I immediately loved Behance.

I’m currently a student – but two years ago, I dropped out of Art School and decided to work as a freelance digital artist. I quickly found out that it’s not easy to get hired when you’re an 18 year old without a degree. People tend to look at your degree before they look at your true ability. Since I am self-taught, I needed a place where I could share my work and show what I love to do, in the hope someone would like to work with me. Thanks to the Behance, I was able to share my work with an amazing network of creative minded people and find the right people to work with.

Vanhaeren‘s work, featured in ESPN Magazine. [Visit]
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After joining Behance in early 2009, I posted a personal project: a series of superhero poster designs. Little did I know that my presence on the site would snowball into a wave of exposure, including a post on a major industry blog, Comics Alliance. I now sell the designs as prints, and attribute most of my success to Behance. In fact, a third of my website’s traffic comes from my Behance profile alone!

[Collage of Superhero/Villain Posters project on Behance Network, available for purchase on markgrambau.com/]

In November of 2010, I was contacted by the Creative Director of CloudKid, a small but successful studio with a focus on children’s media. He had found me through my Behance profile, emailed me, and we got a conversation going. I began freelancing for them shortly thereafter, and now work in-house. The work I do is dynamic and fun and the people are enormously talented.
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I’ve been working for Maple Leaf Sports + Entertainment (MLSE) as the lead designer for the Toronto Maple Leafs for the past 4+ years and knew that I needed a change of environment. I was looking to grow creatively and professionally. I just finished developing and rolling-out the Maple Leafs 2010-11 marketing campaign when I was contacted by the Toronto Blue Jays about a senior designer position that was opening up in the next couple weeks. I was asked to submit my resume, PDF of some work and my website if I had one. I need to act fast if I wanted the position.

[Toronto Maple Leafs 2010-2011 season design]

I use Behance as an inspirational/networking tool and knew that I wanted to showcase my work on it eventually. The position with the Blue Jays was the motivation and tool I needed. I used Behance to develop a quick personal portfolio online.  After I applied for the position I was told that the VP of marketing for the Jays loved my work and wanted to meet me in person.
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I joined Behance 3 years ago after hearing about it through a Creative Director I was working with. He found amazing illustrators and designers there, so I figured that Behance attracts good clients with design taste.

As an Art Director, I now use Behance specifically to showcase my illustration work. Yet, I get job offers that involve more than just illustration, such as graphic design, identity design, motion graphics, etc.

[Home Wall, featured on Illustration Served]

I think that success in finding work comes from the way we can categorize our work by creative fields. Being featured in the Behance gallery is also always a big push for me. I get much recognition from that, and the emails start raining in.
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Behance’s search results have actually been what has gotten me work. A high school in San Francisco contacted me to use a logo I did for a West Side Story production. I happily accepted but refused payment.

[Logos / 06-09 on the Behance Network]

It was great to see the logo get a second life and be used again. They were nice enough to send me a t-shirt, playbill and postcard. They also had their art students reproduce the logo in chalk outside their theater.

I’ve also had several other random e-mails asking about my work on Behance. I have one simple tip. Name your files appropriately and in the right context. Use the captions as well to help explain your work.

Connect with Adam Neff on his Behance profile.

This past spring I graduated from the University of Kansas, and while I was in school, my professor told me about Behance. She told me it was a great site to showcase my design, and give creatives, that may not normally see my work, the opportunity to view it at their leisure. In addition, my professor noted it was a great way to promote my work, get my name out there quickly, and that it would be easy to keep up to date.

So, I created a profile and posted my portfolio. I received lots of great feedback and was excited to be able to share my link with professionals, friends and family.

[Branding for Hello Again]

I joined the Behance Network in the summer of 2009 when I was wrapping up a design internship in Atlanta. I found the site when searching for inspiration for a few different projects that I was tasked with. I found such an overwhelming database of top-notch design that, once I finished my work, I requested to join so that I could submit my own work for critique to a community with such high standards and expectations of its users.

[Start Atlanta Branding]

Behance grew in importance to me not only by providing this community, but by affecting my pace and focus as a creative professional. Scott Belsky’s “Making Ideas Happen” had a big impact on the way I work. I even created branding materials for a “Plywood Presents” event  in Atlanta where Scott spoke about the book. These conference designs were my first project to ever be featured on Behance.
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