Grids Question
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Maybe an easy to understand analogy is the way musicians structure their work.
There's a fundamental structure to music, which can be ignored at times, but musicians are almost always working within in it to some degree. Even if you bang out a punk rock song or something, you're still playing with a constant tempo, otherwise it will be total chaos:)
In the same way, it's hard to escape using a grid when designing. Type out a few lines of copy, you already have a primitive grid of sorts created by the regularity of the repeating lines of text.
The question is, do you just fudge your way around this kind of structure or do you approach it with the precision of a serious musician by accounting for variations in type size, margins, etc? Modern graphic design is built on the idea of precision, so the default is to measure everything out mathematically. It's not the only approach, but it should be learned...