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Hi, I'm Teresa Watts and
I'm passionate about the web.

I'm a freelance web and graphic designer based in Canberra, Australia. I specialise in designing beautiful, usable websites and creating them using XHTML and CSS; I have also done work in branding, multimedia illustration and print material.

Outside my job I still love to create, and spend the majority of my free time drawing and making things.

skills

  • Website design
  • (X)HTML/CSS web development
  • Wordpress templates
  • Other CMS templates
  • Logos and branding
  • Print design
  • Illustration

tools

  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Indesign
  • Dreamweaver
  • Flash
  • Good old pencil and paper
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Living Greener

Living Greener

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  • web design
  • icon design

‘Living Greener’ is a portal for people interested in reducing their environmental impact, which required a design that was friendly and engaging whilst still being usable, accessible and compliant with the Australian Government branding. Original icons were also required to represent different sections of the website.

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LootSlinger

LootSlinger

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  • illustration
  • web design
  • web development
  • logo design

LootSlinger is an online auction website aiming to make buying and selling online more easy and user-friendly. The project required logo design, print design, detailed illustrations and the design and development of the website. The designs were done with a fun, friendly feeling in mind.

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UX Australia

UX Australia

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  • web design
  • theme development

UX Australia 2009 is a 3-day user experience design conference, with inspiring and practical presentations, covering a range of topics about how to design great experiences for people. The project involved designing and developing a Wordpress theme with an emphasis on usability and accessibility.

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Bronwen Clune

Bronwen Clune

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  • web design
  • theme development

Bronwen is the Founder and CEO of Norg Media, a company dedicated to creating people powered news sites around the world. This project involved designing and developing a Wordpress blog template in a clean style inspired by a print newspaper.

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Mergento website

Mergento website

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  • web design
  • web development

Mergento is a new tool to help software developers manage their application code with Subversion, Git, or Bazaar. The project required the creation of a new logo, branding, business cards and website.

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Mergento branding

Mergento branding

  • logo design
  • branding
  • print design

Mergento is a new tool to help software developers manage their application code with Subversion, Git, or Bazaar. The project required the creation of a new logo, branding, business cards and website.

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Abstract Gourmet

Abstract Gourmet

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  • web design
  • theme development

‘Abstract Gourmet’ is the personal blog of Matt, showing his food photography, restaurant reviews, recipes and experiences. The blog is uses Wordpress, with the design focusing on the photography and written content.

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Candy Cult

Candy Cult

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  • web design
  • theme development

‘Candy Cult’ was a group character design exhibition which I participated in. I helped design and develop a promotional blog for the exhibition, using illustrations by the artists.


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Get in touch.

After a quote, got a question or just want to chat? You can fill out the form over there or catch me in one of the places listed below.

Email: teresa[at]teresawatts.com
Twitter: twitter.com/chisa
Blog: chigarden.com
Flickr: flickr.com/chisa