I recently had the pleasure of developing a new website for Toowoomba photographer Amanda Newman. She does truly excellent work, and since she started her photography business she has been booked out for months in advance.

She provided the following testimonial:

Being a brand new business, having a website of my own was at the very top of my list of ways to get my name out there and show my work to possible clients. I researched for a few months on different Website Developers and just wasn’t happy with the ones I was finding until I came across Andrew. Not many other developers give you the option of having a lot more control of your website, and this is very important to me. Andrew was really wonderful and easy to work with in building my website. He was able to explain things to me so I could easily understand it all and I get many compliments from clients, and other professionals about the simplicity and fun, fresh look of my website. I highly recommend Andrew to anyone thinking of using him, it will honestly be one of the best business decisions you will make. ~ Amanda Newman

Read more about her website

The upcoming HTML5 standard is an exciting one for us designers & developers, and its being integrated into modern browsers like Webkit (Chrome/Safari), Firefox and Opera quite quickly. There are lots of people doing interesting things with this new standard, but Hakim El Hattab’s HTML5 experiments are really impressive.

Impressive LED watch design from Japanese designer Hironao Tsuboi. Hironao recently was showcased in D&AD‘s Faces To Watch, which promotes new talent.

From the maker of Helvetica (the movie) comes a documentary on industrial design and the creativity behind everyday objects. The trailer for the film has just been released:

The voice-overs comes from Jonathan Ive, Andrew Blauvelt, Marc Newson, and Karim Rashid. This looks really fantastic…I can’t wait to see this movie

Objectified Web Site

I’m a bit slow to get around to watching this, but the second series of Not Quite Art has been broadcast on ABC1. The show features various artists working outside of the mainstream art world, and how they are getting a global audience. Series 1 & 2 are available for download on the ABC’s website.

Here’s hoping the ABC commission a third season!