I’m Jon, an independent designer and developer making art-directed websites for places and stays.
I shoot, direct, and code every site myself—one set of hands from the physical shoot to the live build.
Spacedust Web02 / SocialFrom discovery to website
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I came to websites through architectural film, photography and frustration.
For nearly twenty years I’ve worked with independent owners and agencies to make their digital presence feel more tactile and grounded in what makes them distinctive.
Spacedust Web grew out of a simple frustration: seeing considered work flattened by a conventional website it ended up in.
Spacedust Web03 / Direct bookingFrom social to direct booking
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From social to direct booking.
An Instagram Reel creates desire in seconds. If the next tap lands on a standard booking template, that momentum disappears just as quickly.
Rather than starting with a rigid layout, I build the site to carry that feeling forward through sharp copy, photography, film, aerials, ambient loops and subtle movement.
One vision, built into an atmospheric, fast and lightweight site that makes the move from interest to direct booking feel natural.
Spacedust Web04 / StoryStart with the place
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Find the story before the layout.
Before deciding what a website should look like, I want to understand the place.
That starts in the Sound Room.
Spacedust Web05 / DiscoveryBuilt for how people search now
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Developed for the way people discover things now.
Built so search engines and AI can clearly understand the business, the place and the content.
Designed properly for mobile rather than treating the phone as a reduced version of the desktop site.
Fast-loading, lightweight and secure by design, with fewer moving parts than a traditional WordPress build.
Secure managed hosting, backups and monitoring are looked after too, with direct support if something goes wrong.
Spacedust Web06 / AboutNewcastle, UK
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A filmmaker’s eye. A developer’s control.
I’m an independent designer and developer based in Newcastle.
For nearly twenty years I’ve worked with architecture, photography, film, light and movement. My architectural photography has been selected for the RIBA Collections.
Spacedust Web grew partly out of frustration. I would spend days carefully composing films and photographs, then see them dropped into websites that gave little thought to how the material was actually experienced.
I wanted to control the whole thing.
Now I can carry the same thinking through the photography, typography, movement and code, from the first idea to the finished website.
Spacedust Web07 / ProcessFrom first conversation to launch
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Listen. Gather. Compose. Build.
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Listen
We begin with a conversation and the Sound Room.
By the end of it, there is a clear brief: who the website is for, what it needs to do and what matters most.
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Gather
I review everything already available and decide what deserves to stay.
Existing photography and film may only need editing or reframing. Anything missing can then be planned and created deliberately, rather than producing content for the sake of it.
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Compose
The website starts taking shape on screen.
Layout, pacing, scale, transitions and behaviour are worked through together. You see the real site developing, rather than a presentation describing what it might eventually become.
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Build
Design and development happen as one job.
Pages are refined in code, booking systems or other integrations are connected, and the finished site is tested across different screens before launch.
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Launch & aftercare
I handle the launch and the technical setup behind it.
Hosting, backups and monitoring continue afterwards, and if something needs changing you come directly back to me rather than through a support desk.
Spacedust Web08 / ContactStart with a conversation
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Tell me about the place.
If there is somewhere worth looking at, staying in, visiting or talking about, that is usually where I want to start.
I came to websites through architectural film, photography and frustration.
For nearly twenty years I’ve worked with independent owners and agencies to make their digital presence feel more tactile and grounded in what makes them distinctive.
Spacedust Web grew out of a simple frustration: seeing considered work flattened by a conventional website it ended up in.