Making and Breaking the Grid: A Layout Design Workshop (Graphic Design) - Hardcover

Publishers, Rockport

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1564968936 ISBN 13: 9781564968937

Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc., 2003

Synopsis

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 to effectively break the rules of grid-based design one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-world projects. 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. Also included are historical overviews that summarise the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.

About this title

About the Author:

Timothy Samara is a graphic designer and educator based in New York City, where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology. He's also the author of Typography Workbook (Rockport 2004). He lives in New York's Chelsea district.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1564968936
• ISBN 13: 9781564968937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208