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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.
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 comp...
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8 reviews
Shane Killion
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November 8, 2017
Do not buy this epub. The book itself is great, but the digital download is offset by a page, destroying the original design of a book specifically about design. This absolutely needs to be fixed, but my reports have gone unanswered.
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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 Fashion Institute of Technology. HeÆs also the author of The Typography Workbook (Rockport 2004). He lives in New YorkÆs Chelsea district.
Timothy Samara is a graphic designer and educator based in New York City where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology. HeÆs also the author of The Typography Workbook (Rockport 2004). He lives in New YorkÆs Chelsea district.
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