Grid Systems
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- rosegold
I'm a young designer that is not formally trained (didn't finish design school), but I have taken more than a few design courses.
I was just wondering how many of you design professionals feel about using grid systems in your work? Is it important to everything you do? Web or print.
- lvl_130
talk to jevad about this one
- ********0
i broke it last week.
sorry.
- sherman0
go grid and you wont go back
- ********0
use them
- jevad0
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/jou…
Just follow the basic design principles, grid systems and effective typography being just two, and your pages will have consistently sound designs. Violate them frequently, and you will be looking for another line of work.
- ********0
I use grids, but I always suspect I'm using them wrong
- ldww0
i heart grids
check out that orange book on YWFT about grids.
- davey_g0
Tight grids or bust!
- radar0
know them then chhose rather to use or abuse them, naw meen?
- uncle_helv0
The grid is the architecture of type and image.
- pascii0
bible:
- NegativeSpace0
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.
- blackspade0
I finally got a hold of a second hand copy of 'Grid Systems in Graphic Design' by JM-B last week
i can see already that it is going to help my design work ten-fold...
dont know why I hadnt got a copy earlier, but better late than never!!
- mg330
Live by grid, die by grid.
- Mimio0
It's how David Carson saved the world.
- shilohous0
fuck a grid
bunch of rule following bitches
- mg330
Go watch this for a while.
http://textism.com/bucket/quietf…
- spiralstarez0
bump
I'm looking at the 5 simple steps link http://www.markboulton.co.uk/jou…
and wondering where he chooses the divisions in steps 2 and 3
is he dividing the page into thirds with the rectangle in step 2, and then thirds by height in 3?
basically, I get that it's ratio 1.414, but where is the boundary for width or height in those steps?
- canuck0
I am poor I have the photocopied version of muller-brockmann's book. I would recommend taking a look at it. It's not cheap, the basic principals arn't too hard to understand, take some notes, study, other successful designs,
donezo.
- blackspade0
cheap enough i bought it second hand of amazon