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“ The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee.
It permits a number of possible uses and each
designer can look for a solution appropriate to his
personal style. But one must learn how to use the
grid; it is an art that requires practice. ”
Josef Müller-Brockmann

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in grid systems.

• Articles

• • The Villard Diagram

  • A step-by-step descrip­tion on how to cre­ate a Villard diagram.

  • 02.Nov.2011
• • Grid-based Web Design, Simplified

  • A holis­tic approach for the typical workflow.

  • 02.Nov.2011
• • Rethinking CSS Grids

  • Mark Boul­ton pulled together some of his thoughts and con­cerns regard­ing CSS grids and how they could be created.

  • 02.Nov.2011
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• Tools

• • Gridbooks

  • A col­lec­tion of books and pads fea­tur­ing grids for web design and online cam­paign development.

  • 02.Nov.2011
• • phiRatio Proportions Calculator

  • phi­Ra­tio is an iOS tool to cal­cu­late dif­fer­ent types of pro­por­tions. Not only cal­cu­lates golden pro­por­tions, it also cal­cu­lates 4:3, 16:9 and 3:2 ratios.

  • 02.Nov.2011
• • Fluid Baseline Grid

  • The Fluid Base­line Grid Sys­tem is an HTML5 & CSS3 devel­op­ment kit that pro­vides a solid foun­da­tion to quickly design web­sites with ease.

  • 02.Nov.2011
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• Books

• • Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design

  • Order­ing Dis­or­der is a book by Khoi Vinh that deliv­ers a defin­i­tive take on grids and the Web and pro­vides both the big ideas and tech­niques of grid-based design.

  • 11.Nov.2010
• • Universal Principles of Design

  • Uni­ver­sal Prin­ci­ples of Design is the first com­pre­hen­sive, cross-disciplinary ency­clo­pe­dia of design.

  • 04.Nov.2009
• • Designing for the Web

  • A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Design­ing for the Web has writ­ten expla­na­tions of the core prin­ci­ples of graphic design in rela­tion to the web.

  • 08.Oct.2009
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• Templates

• • 960px Grid Templates

  • A selec­tion of 960 pixel-wide uni­form grid tem­plates rang­ing from 3-columns to 16-columns, for both Adobe Pho­to­shop and Fireworks.

  • 11.Nov.2010
• • The Golden Grid Template

  • A PSD tem­plate based on the CSS frame­work The Golden Grid by Vladimir Carrer.

  • 02.Mar.2010
• • Photoshop 4 Column Grid

  • A free 4 Col­umn Pho­to­shop grid tem­plate for a 1024×768 screen res­o­lu­tion by Ray Gulick.

  • 08.Jun.2009
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• Blog

• • The Columnist

  • A grid based Word­Press theme that fea­tures a news­pa­per col­umn lay­out and neat typo­graphic hierarchy..

  • 06.Feb.2011
• • Grid-A-Licious 2.0

  • A beau­ti­ful grid based theme for WordPress.

  • 06.Feb.2011
• • Bon Graf Pads

  • A range of beau­ti­fully crafted grid lay­out pads printed on acid free 100gsm uncoated paper and made in Australia.

  • 11.Nov.2010
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