Making and Breaking the Grid

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781564968937
• ISBN10: 1564968936
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Rockport Pub

Summary

The first section, Making the Grid, begins with an exposition of basic grid types, illustrating and defining the most common ones used in traditional design work. A selection of relevant projects shows how these grids organize information appropriate to each application and can provide a framework for composition.
The second part of the book, Breaking the Grid, focuses on designs that challenge grid-based notions of organization. A brief discussion addressing the breaking down of structure is followed by a second set of relevant projects - this time, showing the grid reworked or discarded in favor of alternative compositional approaches.
Working designers and students alike will find this book a valuable reference, as well as a source of inspiration for new approaches to laying out their projects.

Table of Contents

Coming to Order: A Brief History of the Grid in Modern Graphic Design	p. 14
Grid Basics: A Workshop in Structural Designing	p. 22
Exhibits: Grid-Based Design Projects	p. 32
Historical Interlude: The Seeds of Deconstruction	p. 112
Exploring Other Options: A Guide to Grid Deconstruction and
Nonstructural Design Approaches	p. 120
Exhibits: Grid Deconstructions and Non-Grid-Based Projects	p. 128
App.: Index of Contributors	p. 204
App.: Bibliography	p. 207
App.: Acknowledgements	p. 208
App.: About the Author	p. 208
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