Hi, I'm Josh and I make websites.
I'm based in Brighton, UK and enjoy working with clients both near and far.
I'm passionate about great designs that aren't just beautiful, but also enjoyable to use. Its always exciting to fuse a clients ideas with my own to create an individualised website that pushes boundaries.
If you're interested in bringing a new website into existence, get in touch!
Designer, Kyle Bean wanted a website to showcase his varied portfolio including animations, books, paper sculptures and short films. Having this mixed portfolio meant consistency was an important factor for Kyle when designing his website.
Using modern Javascript techniques, images fill the screen, no matter which computer views his site. This feature allows for fine details to be seen in his images. Zoom animations tie visual links between the portfolio and the image and the use of javascript instead of flash allows for a fast loading site, that also works on the iPhone.
Free Wheels East is a documentary about the journey cousins Jamie Mackenzie and Ben Wylson made on their bicycles, traveling around the world.
The film itself is visually rich, and photos from their journy have a pivital role in the design. The website pairs graphic design skills with the rustic nature of their travels, with video and photo filling the screen.
I felt it crucial that visitors are able to view the trailer on an iPhone as well as a computer, and so every function of the site is maintained on this device.
Rory came to me with the initial idea of a website inside 5 panels, and I said "OK, we can do it!". Using Javascript, those 5 panels can animate to become each section of his site, creating a novel, yet effective navigation system which is playful.
Behind this site is an entire custom content management system designed to enable Rory to add new projects, edit them and generally rearrange the site. I hope it is simple enough that anyone could use it.
This website for occupational therapy contains a wealth of information. I have tried to break this information into bite sized portions so it is easily digestible, and visitors can locate information which is relevant to them with ease.
Subtle use of javascript allows for extra content to magically appear within the current page instead of waiting for a new page to load when a visitor clicks on an article.
With Sarah's website, it really is all about her work, with the right amount of navigational elements to make the site function.
Sarah wanted a very minimal design, but whilst scaling back the usual design elements, I was careful not to create a site that was difficult to use. Her work literally fills the screen, whilst other elements such as information and navigation can be shown or hidden as the visitor pleases.
Photographer Dani Maimone's site has a stripped down colour palate of only grey and off-white. This provides a neutral backdrop for showcasing her work.
Visitors can effortlessly navigate through the portfolio without waiting for new pages to load, as sections and galleries are revealed within the page.
Laura's website was inspired by her work with translucent materials. A piece by the illustrator can be seen behind her work, through a semi-transparent blue filter.
I also tried to make navigation as simple as possible, so although only 3 sections are shown, if you hover over them you can go to any sub-category, such as a particular project, or her "Weird and Wonderful" blog postings.
In this website, javascript techniques allow for the projects to fill the browser window, no matter what size, so whether on a small or large monitor, the images look great.
When designing this website for photographer Janina Sawyer, I had the idea of creating a wall of photographs.
Much like in some homes, many photos are displayed in an eclectic mix of frames all of differing shapes and sizes. If this were a real wall, one would go closer in order to see a photo larger, the same applies here.
When you click on any frame, the wall zooms in and all other frames drift off screen. This is a different way of dealing with the relationship between thumbnail and the full image.