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Author Samara, Timothy, author.

Title Making and breaking the grid : a graphic design layout workshop / Timothy Samara
Edition Second edition, updated and expanded
Published Beverly, Massachusetts : Rockport Publishers, an imprint of the Quarto Group, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents Thoughts on structure--an introduction -- Making the grid. Coming to order--a brief history of the grid in graphic design ; Grid basics fundamental concepts of page structure ; Building a grid making the structure that suits your needs ; Using a grid considerations and best practices ; Exhibits design projects based on grids -- Breaking the Grid. On the other hand--a historical survey of non-structural design tendencies ; Alternative architectures ; Intuitive, relational, and conceptual ; Considering the practical in the impractical -- Exhibits design projects without grids
Summary 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
"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"--Provided by the publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 239) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Grids (Typographic design)
Layout (Printing)
Dummies (Bookselling)
grids (layout features)
dummies (printed matter)
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Book Printing & Binding.
DESIGN -- Book.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
Dummies (Bookselling)
Grids (Typographic design)
Layout (Printing)
Gebrauchsgrafik
Gabarit (Arts graphiques)
Mise en page.
Arts graphiques.
Genre/Form Anleitung.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781631594090
1631594095