Big typography is a good solution, because self presentation often is a question of telling stories that are hard to illustrate. Big typography allows self presentation directly through the words themselves, so to speak. By emphasizing one or more words you can get a message through, very clearly. Here is a few examples of portfolio pages based on this design idea:

http://jeffreydocherty.com/,
http://www.getfinch.com/work/
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http://www.citrus7.com.br/
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http://ryankeiser.net/

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