Circle Ways trains and coaches staff, students, and parents to develop sustainable, systemic processes that serve both academic and interpersonal needs in LA schools. Inspired and guided by the work of Johanna Macy, they also work with organizations to bring member-honoring creativity, decision-making, and accountability, and with families to foster compassionate connection throughout the lifecycle. Their extremely…

A portfolio website with registration and online learning capabilities for Lisa Gibson, Zen monk and mindfulness teaching in Vancouver, B.C.

A Functional Medicine practitioner, doula and trained nurse, Deva Braaten provides one-on-one personal health coaching, grounding practices and reduction of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure in your home and environment, and supportive wellness services for expectant and new families.  This site combines soft, warm imagery and palette with photos of Deva in her natural habitat on…

A beautiful home for Kris Coffman’s somatic psychotherapy practice. Integrating one-on-one sessions with Climate Distress support groups and Bliss Dance, Kris is an empathic, grounded and visionary healer with heart. Visit site: https://earthbodypsychotherapy.com

Nature based iconography combine with hand drawn elements for a breathtaking, yet elegantly simple, treatment.

A soulful treatment for a vision fast leader taking people out into the desert for self actualization and encounter with spirit.

An online school and registration portal for outdoor educators and camp directors Coastal Current Adventures.

A passionate site for Satya, who offers ceremony and coaching for authentic grieving and living embodied truth.

Author, Coach and Consultant Kim Loh works at the confluence of conflict resolution, leadership development, and mindfulness. A seeker, deeply intuitive and skillful facilitator, Kim helps people get unstuck and grow infinitely more capable to transform themselves and their conflicts. Check out this dynamic new site, which incorporates podcasts, video, book excerpts and three distinct…

RAVEN needed a site upgrade to bring their work – raising legal defence funds for Indigenous Nations – to the next level. Incorporating a dynamic, Google-based “Mapping Justice” interactive map, Press Kit templates for campaigns, timelines, interactive visual storytelling and a lyrical, impactful design sensibility, the site has also been my first bilingual project. Check…

Lisa Gibson is a transformational facilitator, coach, systems change consultant and writer, working for a more just world. . She helps individuals, groups and systems enact their larger potential and work across difference to realize positive change in the world. If you are ready to create a healthy planet where justice, well being and right…

A tender offering from an emerging psychotherapist and forest therapy practitioner.

Rich terra cotta, turquoise and indigo combine to bring a Mexican flavour to this travel company’s website. Boutique offerings are highlighted with clean, simple yet flavourful copy and spare design that lets the images sing. Motifs from Aztec and ceramic design play on the symbolism of the monarch butterfly. https://alternateroutetours.com

“Companioning the psyche” with Alison Vida. She explains: “JUNGIAN ANALYSIS is a way of tending to our inner life. In analysis we probe deeply into who we are and what we are made of, exploring images and networks of meaning, both conscious and unconscious. Journeying inwards with a companion who knows the territory, we find ourselves enriched, enlarged,…

A podcast site encompassed within the full practice of Angela Caruk, counsellor, coach and explorer of all things sensual and healing. Notable: use of illustrative floral motifs in combination with Argentinian typography. The ‘spiky’ flavour of display font goes beautifully with both serif and sans serif accents. A rich palette pulls you in and hold…

Victoria Albina runs a busy health consultancy in New York City. She came to me with a site that had obeyed all the tech-world’s edicts: the site was designed to convert, but it had no soul. I came in and brought aesthetic uplift to the presentation and warmed up the colours, bringing in some of…

This is one of those cases where I really wish I could show you a before and after screenshot. An incredible aerial circus troupe with a fantastic, visionary artistic director… all amazing trapeze and stilt artists, none techie or able to make time to create a proper website. Hence… bookings were challenging as corporate agents…

A multi-talented artist with an embarrassment of rich offerings needed a single container for her books of poetry, Motherhood courses, online coaching, zen meditation teaching and university level yoga instruction. Not bad for a mom of a toddler!!! She had very little time and very pressing needs to make this site beautiful and quick. Accomplished…

Such a simple concept — an online course lead page. So many people have been sucked into the “by the numbers” page setup world of Marie Forleo et. at that these pages tend to look woefully similar, uninspiring, and text-heavy. Here’s a fresh take, for http://theheartofmotherhood.com Note the strong headers, clean branding and soft, bohemian filigree…

Zena Me offers Mamucium’s Systemic Constellations, a practice which illuminates and honours our personal ancestral heritage and in doing so, facilitates our ability to deeply connect and embody our authentic leadership power, transforming society and building climates of mutual trust. Masterful yet quirky, significant yet approachable, Zena’s coaching and leadership training tools and mentorship offer…

Author, musician, mystic, dream analyst.. Toko-pa is a passionate polymath. Her lush palettes and textures were keeping her very popular, yet dated, blog site from accessibility. We found a way to keep the sensuousness without losing the clean readability. Moving to a Woo based registration system and proper mobile optimization means more people will be…

Elegant integration of a Seattle based accommodation booking engine with a local luxury rental. Great shots by John Cameron worked well to highlight details about the property, while the owner’s aesthetic shone through in Mary Oliver poetry and hand drawn touches. Home

Ah… tiny homes. We all fantasize about downsizing, or upgrading, to our own home sweet home. This lovely couple, Colin and Lesley, have made a business out of building custom, affordable and efficient tiny homes. Check out the website: the owners are busy builders with two tiny toddlers so there was little time to do…

A website for a great little NGO devoted to pairing people who want to farm with people who have fallow land.Visit: http://ssifarmlandtrust.org

Lead Page for She Recovers, a yoga and addictions-recovery conference in New York City.

A Healing Beyond Words: Mobile Massage with Phoebe Mehdorn (https://www.beyondwordswellness.co/) Built a custom site and branding, with copywriting to bring Phoebe’s unique Dutch-flavoured expressions into the mix. “Do you feel stressed, overworked and tense? Do you feel emotionally disconnected or blocked? Do you need support during a crisis emotionally, or  are you needing healing and support in a healing crisis?…

Wild salmon are the backbone of British Columbia. As the original stewards of this precious gift of the rivers and ocean, First Nations are standing up to industrial projects that threaten to wipe out the lifeblood of our province. Four Aboriginal groups along the Skeena and the Nass Rivers are challenging the proposed Petronas LNG…

A fulfilling project for a public health research & development foundation. Their product, NO MO Repellent, out-performs DEET-based mosquito repellents and is changing lives in west Africa where they have begun rolling it out. What I loved about working with NO MO: super-organized and well-researched, with a solid theory of change to back their claims.…

Exquisite site for Grace Jordan, queen bee of the Nectary on Salt Spring Island. Beekeeper, healer, performer, herbologist and activist, Grace embodies the modern-day Renaissance woman. Her Honey Sessions are a way for the bees to reach us with their divine message, straight to the nectars of our hearts. http://thehoneysessions.com [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

A joy to create this site for coach and counsellor Johanna Stiver. It’s so elegant and gentle, with carefully thought out copy combined with breathtaking photos. A winning combination for a gifted healer! www.beingpossible.com

A new site & brand for Greenways Trust, a conservancy organization on Vancouver Island. http://www.greenwaystrust.ca/ Loved making the layered mountainscapes and stream iconography, and seeing the great work that these folks do in their community. Especially impressed with how they engage retired fishermen in rehabilitating salmon runs in this boom-bust fishing and logging town. A unique…

Gorgeous desert-themed revision for creatrix and leather artist Barbara Clarke. abaradesigns.com

Three websites for a high-tech consultancy based in California, with global reach. A challenging design that blends the best in crisp, responsive design, modern UX elements and an inspiring aesthetic incorporating the core values of this ambitious company. Oh: and custom everything. Buttons, footers, headers, icons… plus a spiffy looping video for the header. Nice!!!!…

Home-remaking in a Transgender Marriage What would you do if you had to remake yourself after your husband became your wife?  Kristin Collier tells her story – at turns hilarious, at turns poignant – in beautiful prose that draws you into the journey of her family’s transformation. By the end, you forget that the story is supposed…

“Change the way you do freshness.” — www.domsdeodorant.com

This was a fun site reno for my neighbour Kelly Johnson. Their cottage B&B is on a tidal waterfront, and guests enjoy honey and fresh produce from their farm garden. My pay included farm fresh eggs delivered to my office once a week ~ I don’t do it for the money, I’m in it for…

This is a rebrand and retheme of a site for a nature school that also offers adult mentorship and summer camps. Clients wanted to reflect their organic, earth-centred values while using sharp and fresh usability tools to manage the many inquiries, registrations and team members that they interact with online. Some storyboards:  

Fall in love with this company… her recipes! her vibe! her CHOCOLATE! OMG. Check out Kari Mathieson: www.karimathieson.com

http://www.dreamsheal.com/ A beautiful new responsive site for Katherine Lawson, an Embodied Imagination & Dreamwork practitioner.  Katherine uses Embodied Imagination therapy for cancer patients & survivors. Balancing the sensitive, empathic side of her offering with language & concepts oncologists and academics can relate to required a team effort. We had a writer and a programmer, with…

This was a re-theme of an owner-built site that took the best visual elements from their chosen design and paired them with the great functionality of a full responsive mobile friendly theme. We built it around a custom booking calendar/call to action and a fun “Simba’s Blog” piece that offers a dog’s perspective on life…

“You will definitely be my first choice for recommending to clients – I’ve worked with a few different website folks now – and I’ve never ended up with anything that actually represented our “feel” – so I’m very grateful to you.” — Willow Enewold, owner, Pinnacle PAC www.pinnaclepac.com A creative accounting firm: not an oxymoron…

Work in progress for a very exciting fashion house…  NOW LIVE at www.priestessanddeer.com    

With the motto, “Working together to conserve and restore seagrass on BC’s coast” this valiant organization mobilizes citizen scientists to map and restore critical ocean habitat.   Check out the site at www.seagrassconservation.org        

Combining gorgeous photography by Shari MacDonald with the heartful and expert herbal knowledge of Seraphina Capranos, this site upgraded a busy and popular blog to hold the expanding edge of e-classes and online learning. It was a delight to work with Seraphina. With her exacting vision and love of rich, saturated colour we were a…

A modern, mobile-responsive website for a consultant. www.dennislucarelli.com Some very nice touches throughout reflected his work in Japan & with Buddhist principles, while maintaining a clean, corporate feel.  Subsequent media used the website branding to beautiful effect:                    

I teamed up with Salt Spring Online Services to help rebrand the Salt Spring Market website, which had languished as an under-utilized CMS and tourism portal. I had fun creating custom icons for the various tourism offerings, pairing simple and fresh colours with artistic touches to reflect the island’s artisanal qualities. It was also great…

An evolving e-commerce site that uses Hoot Suite and Mail Chimp software to link social media platforms to the blog. Fancy photography blends with very simple, primary colour navigation for an ultra-modern look. www.morningsideorganic.com  

The client wanted an online lookbook style site that could fold into her existing e-commerce and blog. We settled on a non-scrolling opener featuring lovely slides of her work, and her values. www.holdyourground.ca                              

www.creativebynature.org A super-dynamic, prolific artists and teacher, this client wanted a CMS she could work herself, including online course delivery plugins and a very active subscribers’ area. I did the branding and design on buttons, icons, and headers: her work as a ‘natural painter’ was so delicious, it was a delight to dive into the…

An unfolding process of moving content from a very active blog to a site that will allow for integrated marketing on social media and the delivery of online materials to subscribers and students. In progress: meanwhile visit www.ahavashira.com to see what this dynamic creativity mentor, writer, and teacher is up to!

This was a fantastic website to work on. The client, a yoga studio owner and teacher, had worked closely with a graphic designer for nearly a decade. Hence, the site had been based on a customized content-management system that was incompatible with WordPress. The challenge was to maintain the clean aesthetic of the boutique design…