Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop, 2nd Edition

<div><p>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. <em>Making and Breaking the Grid</em> 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. </p><p>Basics include composing typographic space, format determination, and sequencing and systemization. Various types of grids manuscript, column, modular, hierarchical are also covered. </p><p>d104 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. </p><p>Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.</p></div>