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Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
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Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition

by Timothy Samara
May 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
12h 32m
English
Rockport Publishers
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Thoughts on Structure

An Introduction

For some designers, it has become an unquestioned part of the working process that yields precision, order, and clarity. For others, it is symbolic of Old Guard aesthetic oppression, a stifling cage that hinders the search for expression.

The typographic grid is an organizing principle in graphic design whose influence is simultaneously ingrained in current practice and fought over in design education, revered and reviled for the absolutes inherent in its conception. It is a principle with roots in the most ancient practices of humanity. Eking out an existence with some kind of meaning—and creating an understandable order for that meaning—is one of the activities that distinguishes our species from all others. ...

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ISBN: 9780760381946