Can I share my design portfolio or link to my shop here?
No. The rule named "No promotional/commercial activities." says you cannot promote your own products, services, brand, or shop, including your design services.
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r/Design rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/Design: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Current public stats
- Members
- 4,461,986
- Verified
- September 18, 2026
- Category
- Marketing and growth communities
Rules can change, so Rankhog keeps verification dates and the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
- No promotional/commercial activities.: This community is not for self-promotion - social media pushing, surveys, or advertising. It’s also not for job-searching or recruitment: please use r/designjobs, r/forhire, r/jobs, or r/picrequests instead. You also cannot promote your own products, services, brand, or shop - including your design services.
- If posting someone else's work, credit them appropriately.: If posting someone else's work, use the 'Someone Else's Work' flair. If posting your own work but it's been heavily inspired by, or has drawn on, elements of another person's design, you must credit them. Claiming someone else's work as your own will result in removal and repeated offenders will receive a ban.
- All shared work must have a comment for context.: You must write a comment explaining any work that you post for feedback. The work’s objective, its audience, your design decisions, etc. This information is necessary to allow people to understand your project and provide feedback.
- No basic/repeated questions.: Please Google your question first, and then use the search function on Reddit to see whether someone else has asked your question already. This also applies to font identification questions: use r/identifythisfont instead.
- This is not a “homework” forum.: This is not a place to pick the brains of other designers to do your job for you. You can ask questions, or post asking for inspiration, but please don’t cross the line to getting other users to do your work for you.
- No off-topic/non-civil discussion.: We recognise that design can be political and controversial. We welcome that content here, but please keep all discussion in the comments civil and focussed on the design. This rule also applies to responding to those who leave critical feedback – please give, and accept, feedback politely.
- No memes, AI farming and low-quality posts: MEmes will be removed Low effort posts will be removed Obvious AI-generated posts will be removed and will result in a ban. This also relates to 'What Style is This' posts that are clearly based for AI prompts
- Is it suitable for this sub?: To separate r/design from the various other creative industry subs, artwork and posts of pieces that have functional purpose should be submitted here. There's various other subs for /r/art, /r/DigitalArt, photoshop work, illustration etc. Artwork here must have been designed for a functional purpose
Works well
- Share your own functional design work with a comment explaining the objective, audience, and design decisions.
- Post someone else's functional design work using the 'Someone Else's Work' flair and crediting the original creator.
- Ask a design question that is not basic or repeated, after searching Google and Reddit first.
- Discuss a controversial or political design topic while keeping comments civil and focused on the design.
Avoid
- Do not link to your product, service, brand, or shop, including your own design services.
- Do not post surveys or push your social media channels.
- Do not use this community for job searching or recruitment.
- Do not post someone else's work without crediting them and using the 'Someone Else's Work' flair.
- Do not claim someone else's design as your own, as repeated offenders will receive a ban.
- Do not post work without a detailed comment explaining its objective, audience, and your design decisions.
What r/Design Is For
This community is for design work that has a functional purpose. The rules say artwork here must have been designed for a functional purpose, and they point people to other subs for art, digital art, photoshop work, and illustration. People come here to share design work for feedback, discuss design decisions, and talk about design that solves a problem rather than art that just looks good.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
The rule named "No promotional/commercial activities." is the one that decides whether a marketing-adjacent post survives, because it bans self-promotion, social media pushing, surveys, advertising, and promoting your own products, services, brand, or shop. The rule named "All shared work must have a comment for context." matters next, since any work you post for feedback needs a comment explaining the objective, audience, and design decisions. The rule named "If posting someone else's work, credit them appropriately." also matters if you share work that is not yours or heavily inspired by another person. The rule named "Is it suitable for this sub?" matters because it filters out purely aesthetic artwork and requires a functional purpose. The rule named "No memes, AI farming and low-quality posts" matters because obvious AI-generated posts will be removed and will result in a ban.
What To Post
A good post here is a piece of your own functional design work shared with a detailed comment about the objective, the audience, and your design decisions. You are not pitching a product or linking to anything. You are showing the design thinking behind a real piece of work and inviting feedback from people who care about design. If you are sharing work inspired by another person, you credit them and use the right flair.
What To Avoid
Avoid anything that looks like promotion, including links to your product, service, brand, or shop. Avoid posting work without a context comment, because the rule named "All shared work must have a comment for context." requires it. Avoid posting someone else's work without credit and the right flair. Avoid basic or repeated questions, homework requests, memes, and AI-generated posts. Avoid purely aesthetic artwork, since the rule named "Is it suitable for this sub?" asks for functional purpose.
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Common questions about r/Design
Can I post a job listing or recruit designers here?
No. The same rule directs you to r/designjobs, r/forhire, r/jobs, or r/picrequests instead.
Can I post AI-generated artwork here?
No. The rule named "No memes, AI farming and low-quality posts" says obvious AI-generated posts will be removed and will result in a ban.
Can I ask designers to help me with my homework or do my work for me?
No. The rule named "This is not a “homework” forum." says you should not cross the line into getting other users to do your work for you.
Can I ask a basic design question or request font identification here?
No. The rule named "No basic/repeated questions." asks you to Google first and search Reddit before posting, and sends font identification questions to r/identifythisfont.
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