In Defense of the Grid System
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- winter0
starting from from the principle you may (or may not) have come to the right place for this discussion, one must immediatly question:
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I think it has to do with having a reason as opposed to random sloppiness.skelly
(Jan 23 06, 16:33)
-----------------------------That's a steady remark. But the grid philosophy belongs to the bauhaus and swiss principles, which may not suit the grungy state of affairs, which reports to individuality and sense, as opposed to a structural view of things. The worst part is that the renewal of the Grid was about fashion and not about graphic thinking.
Although any grid system seems more balanced it doesn't respond exactly to the variety of viewers these days, so that's why there's many people trying to break it.
Since design draws to the crowd and stopped being a development discipline and resigned to fashion and money (imho) the questions about the valour of the Grid is not so pertinent as it was some years ago.
A division must be made between experimental work that pushes the creative boundaries, and that sort of mix work that deals with a communion which is not profitable esp. to creative output.
money fucks everything (that is the stupid morality of my post)