Grid Basics - Fundamental Concepts of Page Structure A grid consists of a distinct set of alignment-based relationships that serves as a guide for distributing elements across a format: where they may be placed; their height-to-width proportions; and, ultimately, the ease with which a viewer can navigate the layout. A grid’s orthogonal (90° axis) logic, and all the thinking about how to work with it, derive from the fundamental verbivisual qualities of type. Choosing or developing a grid for a project depends on understanding these qualities, knowing what kinds of grids there are, and the possibilities for how type (and images) might interact within the structure. Building a Grid: For Interaction Design - Layout in a Responsive Context Control over layout parameters for screenbased design has come a long way since the Internet first came online in the mid-1990s. Today, designers have nearly the same facility for precision in Web-based layout as they do for print. Grid use in UX design has come to the fore as the result of the need to structure online communications to adapt to browsing within format interfaces of extreme difference in size; the grid’s modularity lends itself to designing flexible systems of this very nature. Challenges continually arise in attempting to maintain the presence of the structure— aided by rigorously templated development tools—while achieving a recognizably unique visual presentation that doesn’t appear templated. Exibits 03 Modular Grid / 'Graph Paper' Variant A comfortably proportioned modular grid provides overall branding continuity and endless layout variations for Springer, a publisher of textbooks. The program uses a grid of modules that, unlike other grids of this kind, butt each other like a chessboard. The lack of gutters or margins means that the actual book formats can be configured on the grid for greater consistency, and the gridded image areas always align with each other and with the book’s spine and edges. 07 Modular Grid with Deviations This exhibition poster uses an exceptionally large module—relative to the proportion of the format—as the basis for its composition. The letters forming the exhibition’s title are laid out in a 4 x 5 grid of vertically proportioned modules that bleed to the edges of the poster’s format—there are no margins. The alternating black and white fields create backgrounds for the individual letters. 19 Hierarchic Grid A grid-based set of proportions, mathematically derived from the width of these small-format Biblical extracts, provides a clean, simple structure for their titling. The depth of the first hangline, for the title itself, is the square of the book’s width. The secondary information is given specific position, respective of its place in the hierarchy (subtitle, Biblical notation, author, translator). The use of a structural underline and linear-rule bracket for separation of elements in this area lends contrast to the mysterious photography, as well as a more modern sensibility.
✔ Author(s): Timothy Samara
✔ Title: Making and Breaking the Grid, Second Edition, Updated and Expanded: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
✔ Rating : 4.7 out of 5 base on (318 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 163159284X
✔ ISBN-13: 9781631592843
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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The world-building in this book was simply phenomenal. I was transported to a different realm and felt like I was part of the characters' journey. The attention to detail made it all so immersive.
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