Uplift Design offers Website Design and Optimisation service primarily for those in the Healing, Creative and Performing Arts although we do work with aware individuals in other industries.

We work exclusively with aware individuals who are making a positive difference to the raising human consciousness on our precious planet.

Our clients are varied and they include alternative & complementary therapists, musicians, artists, performers, magazines, environmental & eco-friendly businesses, dancers, psychics, herbalists and lots more...
Visit our website portfolio to see for yourself.

Our clients are mainly in Australia, NZ, USA and the UK.

Vibodha is from Philadelphia, USA and Tila is from Northern Ireland, and we have travelled around the world extensively, and are now citizens of Australia.

Together we co-create your website, working LIVE with you online every step of the way. This live design process allows us to create your website quickly and efficiently with no wasted time, money or fossil fuel!

Our unique live-design process allows space for creativity to flow and amazing results spring forth. We use all our technical and artistic skills & experience to support you in creating a website which really represents who you are in the world. We invite you to browse our client portfolio. We currently have over 200 clients encompassing the full spectrum of healing and creative arts.

"For years I found myself confined to the pattern of the 'solitary designer'. I designed, as most designers do, by myself, emerging days later with several ideas to show my client. The designs, each one of them, would be up approved or rejected. One, or course, was ultimately chosen to represent my client's business. Hooray!

However, the other designs were always discarded.. All that inspiration, intensity, all that totality, the creative juice, all the energy... not chosen therefore not needed. I often felt that if that energy had been channeled towards something that WOULD be used, I would more satisfied. And for years I meditated on what that might look like. Now I know.

I have always known that the fastest and easiest way to create what a client has in mind, what they are really trying to express from the level of their being, is for them to BE PRESENT DURING THE DESIGN PROCESS.

A voice in my head (old, past conditioning) had always said, 'It's too much pressure - having someone there looking over your back while you are designing. Besides, TIME is needed. What if it takes LONGER? Face it, it's too complicated to design face-to-face!" In the past I believed it, and that none-to-wise little voice had stopped me.

I could see that all my training and experience had prepared me for working quickly, efficiently and creatively, and I am a very effective communicator and not afraid of co-creating. So, I tested it.

I worked with bassist Chris Pistorino (Bassist) and Owen Timoney (Actor), putting their websites together in just three days, as opposed to the usual three weeks!

The test was more than a success! I could see that it was possible to work consciously with another person's ideas and create something beautiful, QUICKLY.

Now we are down to seven wonderfully efficient, hours - and have amazing results! Beautiful websites, quickly custom designed. Delighted customers. Happy me."

I started off my college adventure studying Architecture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After two years of technical drawing and model building my advisor, the senior architecture lecturer, had a straight conversation with me:

"Listen, you're just not cut out for architecture," he began. "Your work is too... well... beautiful!" He pulled out my sophomore end-of-year project from my portfolio. "Look at this!" he pointed to the schematic drawing of a rose, beautifully detailed and precise.

Overlaying the drawing were multiple layers of watercolour, highlighting the delicacy of the rose in subtle hues of pinks and greens. "Really... painting your final schematic drawing?!" he asked. "In... what is this... watercolours?"

I couldn't see the problem. It was a perfect schematic down to the last centimeter.

"You'd be better off somewhere else, somewhere creative. Architecture is all about detail. You'll not be able to paint your plans anywhere but here at University. And even here, it's not really acceptable. Your project stood out from all the others because of its.. uniqueness."

Isn't that good? I thought.

"Let's face it, it's beautiful. I'd buy it to hang on my wall if it were in an art market, but I have no idea how to begin to mark it as a schematic drawing." He passed it across to me. "I'll need another one. No watercolouring."

I took the board and stuffed it into my portfolio case. I thanked him, shook his hand, and headed for the door for many hours of redraughting a new black-and-white schematic.

He loosened his tie as he packed the papers from his desk. I must have been the last student to counsel for the day. He picked up his bag, followed me to the door and said, "Listen, if I were you, I'd take another path. You're a talented kid. The structure of the years ahead of you will drive you crazy. It will stifle your creativity for sure... crush it perhaps."

I dealt with many things in that single moment. Hearing him suggest that I was both talented and in direct conflict to the path I'd set off on made me laugh and sigh.

"Really," he added, "I've been here for years... and I have to wait until I retire to get back to my painting... five more years of teaching the youngest 'great architects' then I'll head straight to Florida to paint with coloured stucco. I loved that when I was your age... meditate on it kid," he said, locking the door behind him.

We headed for the parking lot. He to his car, me to another path altogether...

Seeing as he was my 'Guidance' Counsellor I though that I should give his guidance some thought. And I did. I moved the next semester to another University, got straight A's as an Art Student and K-12 Education Major, learning simultaneously how to paint and how to teach how to paint.

My senior thesis was presented above all the others in the Uni Interdisciplinary Competition (the best projects from each university in Pennsylvania) and I graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Science in Art Education & Bachelors of Education having taught and studied in Pennsylvania, USA and London, England. My thesis on the Artistic Development of Adults is still in the Uni Library from what I have been told.

After marrying a beautiful red-head from the emerald isle, I opened a Portrait Photography Studio in the UK, flew to San Francisco to study Website Design, and we finally set off together to travel the world, taking website-design along with us...

We now live in Australia happily building web-architecture which is a good combination of my artistic right-brain and my analytical left. And I can build hundreds of them using all the colours and styles available in the palette of imagination!!

Many thanks Professor, I hope you are enjoying painting in Florida...

~ Vibodha