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GRIDS
What Is A Grid
• A grid breaks space or /me into units. • A grid can be simple or complex, specific or generic, /ghtly defined or loosely interpreted.
• Typographic grids are all about control. • They establish a system for arranging content within space of a page, screen or the built environment.
• A grid is not a rigid formula but a flexible and resilient structure, acts like a skeleton.
• Every digital Image or mark is constructed from a grid
Grid As Frame
Un/l the twen/eth century grids served as frames for fields of text. The margins of a classical book create a barrier around a flush block of text. This s/ll remains the most common book format of today.
Biblia PolygoEa Book spread 1558
Dividing Space
By ques/oning the protec/ve func/on of the frame ar/sts and designers unleashed the grid as a flexible, cri/cal and systema/c tool in the nineteenth century.
Das Bauhaus in Dessau leEerhead 1924 designed by Herbert Bayer
Grid As Programmed
The program grid is described as a set of rules for construc/ng a range of visual solu/ons. Karl Gerstner a Swiss designer, connected his methodology with the new field of computer programming to come up with a range of paEerns that were made by mathema/cally describing visual elements and combining them according to simple rules.
Die Neue Architetktur 1940 designed by Max Bill
Multicolumn Grid
Mul/column grids provide flexible formats for publica/ons that have complex hierarchy or that integrate text and illustra/ons. The more columns you create the more flexible your grid becomes
verlag stocker-‐schmid, die/kon-‐zurich, 1962
Grid AS TABLE
Tables are a central aspect to web design. The table feature was incorporated into HTML in 1995 so web authors could present tabular data. Graphic designers, eager to give shape to the webs wide and flaccid text bodies, quickly devised unauthorized used for the HTML table, transforming this tool for presen/ng data into nothing more, nor less than a typographic grid.
Joshuadavis.com
Grid As Website
Grids in websites are the founda/on to build upon. There are quite a few websites that display their informa/on and images in a set layout to make it easier for the reader to go from one item to another.
MçQUADE
Grid As Magazine Tom White designed this magazine spread and has been based on a two column grid. He has used a picture to cover the le] page with a enclosed cap/on, and on the right page he has used two columns to divide the text and has aligned two pictures within the second column to help reduce dead space and to hold the structure.