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Making and Breaking the Grid
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Making and Breaking the Grid

by Timothy Samara
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
6h 58m
English
Rockport Publishers
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Grid Basics

A Workshop in Structural Designing

Henry MagazinerTypography exercisesStudents of Chris Myers, University of the Arts, Philadelphia:Adam Hetherington Nikki Scoggins Jesse Taing

All design work involves problem solving on both visual and organizational levels. Pictures and symbols, fields of text, headlines, tabular data: all these pieces must come together to communicate. A grid is simply one approach to bringing those pieces together. Grids can be loose and organic, or they can be rigorous and mechanical. To some designers, the grid represents an inherent part of the craft of designing, the same way joinery in furniture making is a part of that particular craft. The history of the grid has been part of an evolution in how graphic ...

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ISBN: 9781592531257