book recommendation
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I bought "Making And Breaking The Grid" It is somewhat inspiring, but in the end I was a little disappointed. I expected deeper case studies, not just pictures with redundant descriptions. I wanted to know where each grid comes from, the proportions, grid's relations with type, where gutter and margin sizes come from, etc. What they write is mostly what kind of grid each example belongs to and some other pretty obvious stuff.
The descriptions are nice, but worthless in most cases. While I'd like to know ie. if there's relation between gutter and column width, they write that a layout has "generous gutter".
I learnt more from each sections introduction (history, anatomy of the grid) than from the exhibits.
Nice book, but I wouldn't spend my money on it again. Or maybe it was just not for me.
I still go through it from time to time but rather in search of inspiration than knowledge.