Name: Making and Breaking the Grid
Rating: 4.125 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9781592531257

Timothy Samara

A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

Making and Breaking the Grid

For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily. Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applies to real-world projects. Text reveals top designersÆ work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.

Tejas Bhatt

Although all the examples are from the field of print design, this is a very good starting point to understand the grid and how it can be used in different ways. Breaking the grid, is not much implementable in the digital web world as of now, but it still gives a required direction to the learner.

Stanley Wood

Luke Dorny

Thomas clegg

Zarul Nazli Zulkhurnain

Joshua Line

Tommy Sal

Sandi McGrogan

Irene Alegre

James Madson

Martin Kuzmanov Sandholt 

Oscar von Hauske

Stig Melón-Bratvold

Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design, but to digest information easily. Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-world projects. Basics include composing typographic space, format determination, and sequencing and systemization. Various types of grids manuscript, column, modular, hierarchical are also covered. Text reveals top designers' work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Each project is shown comprehensively so readers can see its structure revealed over several pages, at a size that allows for inspection of detail. Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.

Making and Breaking the Grid, Second Edition, Updated and Expanded

Daniel Nieuwenhuizen

Making and Breaking the Grid A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

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