Making and breaking the grid

212 Pages·2005·51.907 MB·English

by  Samara, Timothy

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For designers working in every medium,layoutis arguably the
mostbasic,and the mostimportant,element.Effective layoutis
essential to communication and enables the end user to notonly
be drawn in with an innovative design butto digestinformation
easily.Justas arguable is the importance of pushing boundaries
and breaking rules,and the urge among designers to violate
rational structures has sparked a continuing debate for more
than fifty years.Often this inclination is atthe expense of clarity,
butintuitive compositional approaches have generated some of
the mostinteresting and exciting graphic design ever created.
Making and Breaking the Gridis a comprehensive layoutdesign
workshop thatassumes thatin order to effectively break the
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8 Thoughts on Structure
An Introduction
11 Using This Book
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Making the Grid Breaking the Grid Appendices
14 Coming to Order 112 Historical Interlude 204 Index of Contributors
A Brief History of the Grid The Seeds of Deconstruction
in Modern Graphic Design 207 Bibliography
120 Exploring Other Options
22 Grid Basics A Guide to Grid Deconstruction 208 Acknowledgments
A Workshop in Structural Designing and Nonstructural Design Approaches
208 Aboutthe Author
32 Exhibits 128 Exhibits
Grid-Based Design Projects Grid Deconstructions and
Non-Grid-Based Projects
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Thoughts on Structure:
An Introduction