Uplift Design is a Holistic Website Design and Portrait Photography service for the Healing and Creative Arts.

Our clients include alternative & complementary therapists,musicians, artists, healers, performers, holistic journals, environmental conservationists, bodyworkers, kite surfers, sculptors, dancers, psychics, doulas, artists, herbalists, ... and lots more.

Visit our website portfolio to see for yourself.

Our mission:

To make a positive contribution
in the most visited place
in the world...
the Internet.

Uplift Design is a website design and photography service for people who are committed to creating a positive, peaceful and holistic world.

Vibodha, of Uplift Design

We work only with individuals who are making a positive difference to the planet. We effortlessly create your designs, changing them, adapting them and watching them evolve until we have the perfect look and feel - and within hours your website is complet. Just as you want it to be.

If you are in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia we can meet in person, but mostly we recommend staying right where you are as we design live on the telephone and on your own computer connected to the internet.

This unique live design process allows space for creativity to flow and amazing results spring forth. I use all my technical and artistic skills & experience to support you in creating a website which really represent who you are in the world. And you'll know it when you see it!

I invite you to browse my client portfolio. I currently have over 150 delighted clients ranging the spectrum of wellness, health and the arts. I also offer training, and other design and web-related services.

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 PHYSICALLY PRESENT while the designing is taking place.

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!" And in the past, that voice stopped me.

I know myself to be talented in the area of design, and FAST in putting together website architecture - everything that is needed for a great website. I could see that all my training and experience had prepared me for working quickly, efficiently and creatively. So, I tested it.

I worked with bassist Chris Pistorino (Bassist) and Owen Timoney (Madcap Theatre), putting their websites together in three days, as opposed to the usual three weeks! Now we're down to six, wonderfully efficient, hours.

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.

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!" 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 pinks and greens.

"Really, painting your final project?" he asked. "In, what is this, watercoulour pastel?"

I couldn't see the problem.

"You'd be better off somewhere creative. Architecture is tedious. 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 it's uniqueness."

Isn't that good? I thought.

"Let's face it, I's probably buy it to hang it on my wall, but I have to give you a "C" for your end of year mark."

I'm certain he could see my disappointment.

"Why not give it some thought and see how you feel about this as a career. I'd hate to see you stifled by the system. You've got too much spark for that. If I was in your position, I'd take the path of the artist... I have to wait until I retire to get back to my painting... So meditate on it kid," he said.

So, seeing as he was my 'guidance' counsellor, I should perhaps give his guidance some thought. And I did.

I moved Universities, got straight A's as an Art Education Major, learning simoultaneously how to paint and how to teach how to paint. My senior thesis was presented as the Uni's Education Department conference and I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Art Education after both stuying and teaching in London.

After marrying a red-head from Ireland I opened a Portrait Photography Studio there and finally set of together to travel the world, taking website-design along with me... I now live in Australia happiliy building web-architecture which (let's face it) is more colourful and interactive (and easier to build) than a real building!