What Should Creative Professionals Blog About?

Every creative professional’s heard the suggestion at some point: “Why don’t you start a blog?” Maybe you dismissed it as too time-consuming, or feel like you don’t have any design, art or photography blog ideas. As a creative professional building an online presence, a blog is a great way to add personality to your portfolio, helping you attract clients and adding dimension to your work.

You don’t have to go full-out lifestyle blogger and start photographing every meal you eat to create a blog for your portfolio. Your blog can be your space to share personal projects that don’t fit in with your professional work. You can use it as an online diary of works in progress, travel images, or news about exhibitions or events you have coming up. You can use your blog to share behind the scenes looks at what you’re doing or to discuss what inspires you.

As long as you commit to updating your blog on a regular basis, you don’t have to stress about posting super frequently. Even monthly updates can be enough to keep your online portfolio website feeling fresh and interesting.

We put together 30 blog topic ideas that you can adapt for your personal style. There’s also examples from other portfolio blogs so you can see how others turned simple ideas into something fresh and interesting.