Artingle, Where artistic talents mingle

Every year, nearly 300,000 graduates enter creative industries in the U.S. — and more than half of them build their careers through freelance and portfolio-driven work rather than full-time jobs. But the industry runs on a catch: students need real client projects to get hired, and established creatives need real collaborators to make the portfolio work their day jobs don't leave room for. Neither side has a good way to find the other.

Artingle is our response to that. It's a professional network built for how artists, designers, and other creatives actually build their careers. Four things that usually live in four different tools — your portfolio, your community, your collaborations, and your job hunt — live here in one.

The piece we care about most is Creative Exchange. It's a way for two creatives to work together without money changing hands, where both people walk away with portfolio credit and full usage rights to the work. It sits right next to paid projects in the app, as a real option — not a lesser one. For students, Exchange is a way to get real client work before anyone will hire them for it. For working creatives, it's a way to make the things they actually want to make, outside what clients ask for.

The interface tries to stay out of the way of the work. Lots of room for images, quiet typography, and a five-tab layout that keeps profile, collaborate, community, and jobs one tap away on both mobile and web. When you propose on a project, you pick from work you've already made — so what someone sees is your actual portfolio, not a pitch. Communities are tied to real places: schools, associations, studios. Even the notifications speak the language of creative work: transferred ownership, proposed to collection, transfer request accepted.

We built Artingle on a simple idea — creative careers are built through work, not claims.