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grey area art space inc.

In a land long long ago, when the government was actually proactive and provided the unemployed with decent training opportunites, a phone call came out of the blue, offering me to participate in a month long html course (run by an amazing duo - one was a conservationist, the other was a geographer!). The Grey Area Art Space (gallery and studios run by a bunch of artists that I was a part of) website was the end result. Most of the outcomes from the other students in the course were pretty standard of the time - lotsa frames, lotsa ugly bevelled buttons lifted from the internet, lotsa blue hypertext and white or black backgrounds. With very limited design experience, I discovered that I loved the way you could map a page through text (code) and coordinates, and was pretty determined to break the mould and do something different. The front page turned into a very long horizontal scroll, and as hard as I searched the net at the time, I never found anything quite like it. (Different these days of course!) Was pretty chuffed with this effort.