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Hi! my name's Wayne, and I'm a graphic designer. Well I'm actually a graphic design student, but I've nearly
graduated, I'm well over halfway through my course.
I've been asked by the Process to show people around some of the pages within the web site. They reckon
that my opinions will be invaluable to people. My expertise in the design field is expanding day by day. I'm
a walking edition of 'Creative Review'. If there is anything that you want to know about the graphic design

world then I'm your man. If it hasn't appeared in 'Creative Review', then it hasn't happened. Naturally, I'm an
expert on the Macintosh. My lecturers are constantly amazed with my design skills.

Anyway, I'm starting to get some funny looks so I'd better get on with my job and talk you through some of
the pages within the Process. I've been asked to start my tour at the main gates of the In-Progress room.
I've been allowed to look around the 'Images' site which I am told houses a selection of imagery created from
artists all round the world. It's really exciting, I can't wait to see the work and give my opinion on each piece.

Sometimes when I show them my work, they are just lost for words and say I'm in a league of my own! I'm a
whiz at 'Photoshop'. There's not a trick in the book I haven't mastered. My hero is the one and only Neville
Brody, to me he is the god of graphic design. The man's a genius. There is nothing on earth that he can't do
with typography. He astounds me. Naturally I use helvetica all the time, you just have to, don't you. No
other typeface will do. He's so creative, no one else comes close. Not that I'm biased or anything you
understand. I do look at other designers work, it's just that they don't generally compare with my hero.
How do I use the guides?

I'm well impressed with the opening page. Design is so important, don't you think. Personally, I'd have
chosen helvetica. It's such a creative typeface, I wonder what was used here. Looks like a serif, possibly
Roman though I could be wrong! Really like the way the page is laid out. I think it's so important to balance
the typography around the page. Of course Neville Brody only uses the minimum amount of type to get his
message across. I wonder how the background was created. What! with 'Photoshop', really!. I could do
that for you, tell me what tools you used......go on!

Like the menu bar at the centre of the page. Especially the way the cursor changes when you pass over
each category, telling you what is contained on the following pages. It really makes the page interactive. If
you look closely, you can see that each part of the menu is slightly different. It's like it is reflecting the
mood of it's contents.

The button called 'Images' is all sharp and focused.

The 'Interactive' button is finished off with a question mark, suggesting mystery, a secret for you to share.
'Check out what's new' pops up as your mouse rests upon the button, very inviting. Good the way it's
slightly out of focus, draws your eye to the text, something that Neville's very keen on.

The '3D' button looks like a cube, standing on a pedestal, it creates an illusion of three dimensionality,
wicked!

'Video' seems to wrap round the button. It reminds me of a reel of video tape ready to be played.

Like the way the 'movement' button plays around the idea of text in motion. The slight blurring looks like the
text has been caught on camera in full flight, nice idea, I'll have to remember that one!

I also like the way the buttons are all piled ontop of one another, in a jumble, but yet all organised. Each one
competing equally with it's neighbour for the viewer's attention.

I've been told to go off to the button marked 'Images'. One click and....Wow! Great texture, very
atmospheric. The way the shadows creep through the imagery or the image dissolving into the shadows,
which ever way you look at things. A bit like is the glass half empty of half full, depends on your outlook
on life. The text reads 'burning the midnight oil', I understand! The image is taken from a streetlight, clever.
It's very effective, drawing your eye to the image.
Like the way the text has to be so strong to counteract the striking image of the light. Looks almost good
enough to eat. I've just remembered what it reminds me of....an avocado..don't you think ? It's the texture
and colour. Was it created in 'Photoshop'? What do you mean you won't let on.

Onto the In-Progress button to see the images.
The page is nicely balanced. Good contrast from the opening page. A simple black background really helps
set off the images, negative space, great!

I personally like working from clip art and photocopies. Haven't the time to create my own images, but of
course I could if I had to. I created a masterpiece the other day, in 'Photoshop' of course. Wanted to put it
on the site but it wouldn't fit onto my zip drive. Thought 20meg was quite reasonable for an image.
Apparently all the images here on the web site are all under 20k, you couldn't draw a straight line for that!

Great atmospheric mood. Gives a very calming effect to the screen. Like the idea of using biology to create
works of art. I wonder how they capture the images. Must be a very powerful camera, one hell of a macro
lens!

The first image reminds me of a satellite photograph, with the swirling clouds sweeping over the country.
The splashes of red work well, nice and subtle. Will have to remember 'Bio Art' when I'm rich and famous, I'll
ask them to do some imagery for me. Do you reckon they would?

Wow! The second one looks like a spinning top, lots of energy and motion. Rich oranges and reds give the
image such a feeling of heat and friction. Like the way the background streaks past, just like the
photographs of road traffic at night, you know the ones, I think they are taken with a long exposure. Like it!

'Creep', very sinister, trees very figurative. Silhouetted against the twilight, looks like they are draped in old
rags. The slight green tinge at the water line appears like mist rising with a strange glow appearing from
underneath.....Spooky!

Fractal's punchy, image strong. Here again I get the feeling of clouds or smoke. Colours give the
impression of blood or perhaps rust. Nice the way the image is broken up with strong outlines of black help
give the impression of depth and three dimensional relief. Looking forward to the animated version.

Follow the In-Progress button, 'more images' or so I am told by the cursor. I like the way you don't have
to wait hours for the images to download. It's quite refreshing after browsing the web, it can get so
tedious waiting for sites to download!

Wicked crab! Love it! Never thought of scanning items directly onto the scanner, nice one, that's one
to remember. 'Creative Scanning' eh! I wonder if Neville Brody's used that yet. The crab appears so
menacing. It projects up from the darkness, wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of that claw, would
you? Talk about larger than life, it's as if you have got on a pair of those 3D glasses on.

Pinhole photography. I was brilliant at that at college. We did a workshop on it last year. Made these
cameras out of cardboard boxes, left them all over the place. I had to leave them such a long time
though, mind you it all had to do with how much light was about where you left it.

If you bent the
photographic paper, you could get these weird distorted images. Well impressed with the results.

Will have to have a look at Kath's page. I wonder what they mean by 'Kath IS a living camera'. I wonder how
she got that effect. Wish I could have done mine in colour. Good sense of movement, splashes of
yellow. Reminds me of a weeping willow tree, expresses the feeling of summer and sunshine. Can just
imagine laying down under a tree sunbathing with the sun peeping through the tree as you look up to
the sky. Nice.

Second photo looks like a big house set in a hillside. Got a continental feel to it. Perhaps a solitary
chateaux set among the trees. Great air of mystery surrounding the picture, I find it quite dreamlike.

What's the last bit then, 'Tic Tac Toe' How does that work then? I'll just click here then....Ah....Wow!
I saw this guy on the homepage, Leo. I'll just see if I can beat him, I won't be long, honest! You just
carry on, I'll catch you up. Bye.