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Atelier

Dark sidebar with a bright accent for designers, keeping tools and process visible beside the work itself.

Example text — you replace it with yours in the builder.

  • LayoutSidebar left
  • Best forCreative & Design
  • ATS-friendlyDesigned for print
  • PhotoOptional
  • PriceFree

Who this suits

Suits creative & design roles where the CV is read by a person — a referral, a direct email, or a smaller company without an automated pipeline.

How it handles ATS parsing

The two-column layout reads well to a human but interleaves when flattened to plain text, so older parsers can scramble it. Use it when you are sending the CV directly to a person, and keep a single-column version for portal applications.

What you can change

Accent colour, sidebar bg, font body, font heading, spacing, scale, line, section order, which sections appear, page size (A4 or Letter), and every word of the text. Nothing here is locked behind a payment.

How to write a designer's CV in Atelier

For designers, the CV's job is to send people to the portfolio. Atelier's dark sidebar keeps tools and process visible, while the main column describes the work the portfolio shows.

Sections, in this order

  1. Portfolio link — at the top, and working
  2. Sidebar: tools, skills and process
  3. Main column: summary, experience, selected projects with brief, role and outcome, education

Bullet points that work

  • Redesigned [the checkout flow], raising completion by [12%] in [an A/B test].
  • Led the [brand refresh] for a [40-store] retail chain, from research to rollout.
  • Built a [design system] now used by [four] product teams.

Figures in [brackets] are placeholders. Use your own, and only ones you could explain in an interview.

Mistakes to avoid

Read next: Designer CV: when the portfolio does the talking

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