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Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Grids and Page Layouts
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Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Grids and Page Layouts

by Amy Graver, Ben Jura
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
5h 8m
English
Rockport Publishers
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Breaking the Rules: Grid Deconstruction 181
Grid deconstruction, as the name implies, is a method
of breaking the grid by actually starting with a grid and
modifying or distorting it to suit the needs of the project.
Columns may be skewed or distorted. Text areas may
overlap one another. Individual modules may be moved
about and layered until there is no distinguishable trace
of the previous structure whatsoever. One benefit of
deconstructing a grid is that it ensures the choice to do
so was made for the right reasons. There is no chance
that a grid was not used because it would take
additional time to set up. Another benefit is that—
depending ...
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ISBN: 9781592537853