Grid Systems
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- spiralstarez
Just curious if anyone has any kind of cool tools or plugins for laying out grid systems in photoshop or illustrator - or even advice on other programs that use this?
Thinking in the style of Mueller-Brockmann...
- Rand0
InDesign, create guides
= rows and columns
- jevad0
thats just lazy
- gerbert0
Sketch it out first on paper, then just use guides.
- johndiggity0
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- johndiggity0
i meant "⌘","
- Nairn0
stick graph paper on your screen.
- spiralstarez0
Jevad:
You are right - it's lazy.
So why would I want to lay it out myself if there is an easier way?
Didn't expect to neccesarily find anything, but can't hurt to ask :-)
- scarabin0
draw it on your screen with a crayon
- rasko40
"think mash, think smash"
- jevad0
because it's fun man - designing grids is fun!
- nick0
i think a plugin as a starting point could be cool.. but i agree with jev.. grids are fun!
- sparkmarker0
and...
it's not that difficult...
c'mon already.
- MLVR0
fff... line tool, blend, ?-5
- BonSeff0
its one of those easy to learn lifetime to master things.
- welded0
Bah, just eyeball it. ;)
- _me_0
jeesus - grids are the basis of design! if you're too lazy to design your own then i should seriously rethink your career mate...
next week:
has anyone got any talent i can download? i'm too lazy to find out if i have any....
- Rob_Heat0
Do it on paper with a calculator. You can use InDesign guides or the quark macro for quick page divisions, but finding the correct unit proportions is half the fun of design!
We need more Neo-Gridism.
- magicroni0
Grids can hold a lot of meaning. The reader may never know this meaning but the thought will be evident. Give a purpose to the grid. Not just arbitrary increments.
- redFridge0
what do you mean by they "hold meaning"?
I see them as a great way to bring out natural rhythms, etc etc bla..
alot constructivist work is grid based, but the meaning was added with the shapes, colors, and type all working to an certain end.
im just curious what you meant by the grid having meaning.
- gerbert0
Herbert Muchamp on the J. Paul Getty Museum:
"Even before you go into the galleries, the abstract quality of the architecture has inducted you into the world of ideas."Richard Meier chose a grid of 30 inch squares as basis for the whole complex. You can follow a line down the side of one building, across the exterior courtyard, and up the building opposite it.