I approach a website as an architect approaches a home. Get to know the people. Understand the surroundings. Consider the views, the movement and the spaces worth spending time in. Then draw the plan.
A website template is like a house with the floor plan already drawn. You choose the finishes, bring your belongings and work out where everything fits.
Cozy Cottages
Coastal Retreats
Jo’s Plaice
Museum Memories
Different businesses. The same placeholders.
I bring the photography, film, design and build together myself, working with what you already have and creating what’s needed.
A quiet, considered place, built around you and made to be enjoyed.
01 / A personal practice
Filmmaker first.
Developer by choice.
I’m Jon, the architectural filmmaker and designer behind Spacedust.
02 / The problem with the template
Most people
build grids.
A website gets content poured into fixed boxes—great images get cropped awkwardly, shrunk down, or stripped of their scale just to fit a pre-set grid.
A digital filing cabinet.
03 / An editorial approach
Art direction, from space to screen
Your place.
The magazine
treatment.
I build the layout around the imagery, using scale, space, contemporary colour, typography and movement to draw out the character of the place.
Spacedust Web / Independent design & development
04 / From first impression to arrival
Keep the
feeling going.
From an Instagram reel or WhatsApp link, the website carries the character of the place through, giving you somewhere quieter to browse, picture yourself there, and then book or visit.
05 / Considered beneath the surface
Built to
do its job.
Behind the design sits a fast, lightweight structure, with clearly organised content that helps people, search engines and AI understand the site.
Selected work / 01
Place, brought to screen
The Old Workshop
Corbridge, Northumberland

Direction / Photography / Film / Design / Development
From conversation to launch
How we’ll work.
Listen
A call to talk through the project and see if we’re a good fit.
1 callGather
Choose the strongest material. Shoot what’s missing.
1–2 weeksCompose
Words, imagery and movement take shape in the browser. You see the site as it develops.
2–3 weeksBuild
Refine the details, connect bookings and test on phones and desktops.
2–3 weeksLaunch & aftercare
Hosting, backups and monitoring taken care of. Come straight to me for updates or support.
OngoingA conversation begins here
Tell me about
the place.
What have you got in mind? A new opening, a fresh start, or a website that needs to catch up with the place itself.
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