Most websites are digital filing cabinets.I build atmospheric spaces.
The design, the photography, and the code holding it up — all by one person.
An Instagram Reel creates desire in seconds. If the next tap lands on a conventional business website, that momentum disappears just as quickly.
Spacedust Web02 / SocialFrom discovery to website
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From social to stay.
Bookers often arrive on a phone, through a Reel, a shared Story or a WhatsApp link, not sitting at a desk browsing a homepage.
They arrive already feeling something about the place. Too often, that visual momentum is lost the moment they tap through.
I build the site to pick up where social leaves off, carrying the atmosphere forward and making the move from interest to direct booking feel natural.
Spacedust Web03 / VisualsVisuals made for the screen
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Visuals made for the screen.
I make the material with the website already in mind: how it unfolds, where the eye pauses, and what comes next.
The arrival, the welcome, the craftsmanship, the texture of the materials and the wider place — each given its own rhythm through photography, ambient video and subtle movement.
Everything is composed as one continuous sequence, so the place makes it onto the screen intact.
Nearly twenty years of looking at places.
I’ve spent nearly twenty years filming and photographing architecture, learning how light, movement, materials and space translate through a lens.
My architectural photography has been selected for the RIBA Collections.
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 / One visionArt direction from start to finish
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One vision, all the way through.
Your website should feel like your place.
The photography, film, words, movement and interaction all need to point in the same direction, so nothing feels borrowed, bolted on or generic.
Existing material can be curated and reshaped, or brand new material can be created for a fresh start.
One clear visual world to capture the feeling of the stay.
Spacedust Web06 / 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 Web07 / 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 Web08 / 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 Web09 / 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.
From social to stay.
Bookers often arrive on a phone, through a Reel, a shared Story or a WhatsApp link, not sitting at a desk browsing a homepage.
They arrive already feeling something about the place. Too often, that visual momentum is lost the moment they tap through.
I build the site to pick up where social leaves off, carrying the atmosphere forward and making the move from interest to direct booking feel natural.