Grid Systems
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Definitely get a hold of a copy of Brockmann's book if you want to learn about grids. Those 5 easy steps only get you so far, grids should be designed to best suit and accomodate the amount and type of content you have so that it can be structured in the most efficient and organized way.
Alot of books on the grid today are pictorials in a sense exposing the grids that have been used (like Timothy Samara's "Making and Breaking the Grid) but JMB's is more of a handbook and will help you get started. Those other books are helpful once you understand the basic principals of the grid.
I find them essential to my work and find it helps when I have an underlying structure to work from instead of relying completely on intuition.
Last week our design program had the opportunity to have Massimo Vignelli over for a talk, and me and a friend went to pick him up and drive him back from the school. It was really interesting to here his views on the grid. While we had conflicting views on type design we were both in agreement about the use of the grid. Especially in the sense of creating graphic design that is objective and about presenting content most effectively. Hearing him bash Carson was also a treat :)
Id definitely recomend taking a look at Massimo's work, as well as Brockmann's, and Tschichold's "Die Neue Typographie" is also a good resource to read about what the new typography movement was tyring to be established prior to Brockmann. It will have better understand what Brockmann is all about.
Hope this helps.