A Look at Creative Resumes

Posted on | February 24, 2010 | No Comments

Read this few days ago, from onextrapixel – Give Your Resume a Creative Boost

Instead of presenting your skills and work experiences in the usual PDF or Word Doc, create a graphical, well-designed resume. Onextrapixel encourages Creative wannabes to do so.

I like clean, lots-of-white-spaces design so the heavy-graphics resumes don’t appeal to me. Those are rather hard to read but as a Designer’s resume, it probably communicates his strength in conceptual, graphical, typography design.

Here are my favourites:


I like how the user spread his various job roles around his brain. Lots of white space for easy reading. Job experiences are illustrated as ‘achievements’.




Organised like an advertorial – headings of different fonts and sizes to grab different people’s attention. It also helps the reader to navigate to another section easily.

Alright, I don’t work in the Creative industry. Sending the above type of resumes will probably cause HR to frown.

These are resumes that I could do:

I haven’t done graphic work in ages but I could replicate this layout and concept. Not a fan of placing my name vertically.


I love the header, the big fonts for the name and career. Love the use of colors to distinct each section. Black on white, white on blue.

This entry inspires me to do my own designed resume. Shall add it to to-do list.

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