Elegant
A refined serif template with a centered header and burgundy accents. Suits creative, marketing, and hospitality candidates who want polish without a photo.
Use this templateCreative Resume Templates
Distinctive designs for designers, writers, and media professionals that show taste without sacrificing readability.
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For creative roles the resume is evidence. A designer applying with a default word-processor document contradicts their own portfolio, but the opposite failure is just as common: resumes so art-directed they are hard to read and impossible to parse. Creative directors consistently say the same thing: show your judgment through restraint.
These templates express personality through typography, color, and structure rather than ornament. Elegant and Opal deliver serif sophistication, Iris and Marina add a confident accent with a photo, and Sidebar organizes a multidisciplinary skill set cleanly. Your portfolio link stays prominent in every one.
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Sidebar
A left-sidebar design in royal navy that keeps skills, links, and contact details in their own rail. A strong pick for tech, marketing, and creative roles.
Use this templateOpal
An airy, centered design with generous whitespace and a deep teal accent. Feels calm and refined, well suited to creative, hospitality, and marketing candidates.
Use this templateCascade
Our flagship designed look: a bold emerald sidebar with your name reversed out in white. Distinctive and confident, a strong pick for tech, marketing, and sales candidates.
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A full-width navy header band with your name reversed out. Instant presence at the top of the stack, suited to sales, marketing, and creative applications.
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A single-column resume with a compact headshot in the header corner. The lightest way to add a photo while keeping a traditional, easy-to-scan structure.
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A photo-forward sidebar template in deep teal with a large headshot at the top of the rail. A favorite for client-facing roles across sales, hospitality, and healthcare.
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A centered headshot above a serif layout in navy. Formal and personal at the same time, popular with educators, consultants, and hospitality professionals.
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A royal blue side panel with a headshot and rounded details. Bright and contemporary, suited to marketing, creative, and hospitality applications.
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A plum-accented sidebar design with a headshot. Distinctive without being loud, picked most by designers, marketers, and tech candidates who want personality.
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Use this templateCommon questions
Should creatives use a heavily designed resume?
No. Your portfolio is where the work speaks; the resume needs to be skimmable in six seconds and parseable by application systems. A distinctive but restrained template with strong typography signals more design maturity than illustrations, skill bars, or dense infographics.
How do I show a portfolio on my resume?
Put the URL in the header next to your contact details, keep it short and memorable, and make sure it matches the roles you are applying for. Every template here renders your website link prominently in the header, and the PDF keeps it clickable.
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