December 2008

Knoll Twenty-first Century Classics

Orig­i­nally printed in 1999, this poster is a re-print by K2 Screen and fea­tures a col­lec­tion of clas­sic Knoll fur­ni­ture, orga­nized in a sound grid.

Grid Calculator

Soft­ware for pro­fes­sional design­ers want­ing to cre­ate a per­fect grid, in just a cou­ple of min­utes. It’s ideal for projects such as book and mag­a­zine design, logo, retail, web­de­sign and more.

Grid Computing and Design

Khoi Vinh writes about estab­lish­ing a ratio­nal and sus­tain­able lay­out grid for his Sub­trac­tion site. He explains how he shoe­horns pre­vi­ous arti­cles into the new framework.

Typographic Systems of Design

Typo­graphic Sys­tems explores eight major struc­tural sys­tems beyond the tra­di­tional order­ing sys­tems of the grid  –  includ­ing ran­dom, radial, mod­u­lar, and bilateral systems.

Gridmaker

An online tool where you can spec­ify the width, columns, gut­ter and base­line of your grid and then save it locally in JPG format.

Grids In The Real World

It’s one thing to write about how use­ful and impor­tant grids are for a design, it’s another thing to uti­lize them in a real world project.

Grid-A-Licious

A Word­Press theme that places Divs in chrono­log­i­cal order on a spe­cial grid using a jQuery framework.

The Grid: A Modular System for the Design and Production of Newpapers, Magazines, and Books

A book on using grids in dif­fer­ent forms of print.

Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS

The foun­da­tional YUI Grids CSS offers four pre­set page widths, six pre­set tem­plates, and the abil­ity to stack and nest sub­di­vided regions of two, three, or four columns.

Five Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems

Five steps that cover the ele­ments which make a suc­cess­ful grid sys­tem and how they can be applied to a num­ber of media outputs.

About

Made popular by the International Typographic Style movement and pioneered by legends like Josef Müller-Brockmann and Wim Crouwel, the grid is the foundation of any solid design. The Grid System is an ever-growing resource where graphic designers can learn about grid systems, the golden ratio and baseline grids.

Created by Antonio Carusone, graphic designer and author of the design and typography blog AisleOne. Special thanks to Duane King for his help and wisdom.

If you want to say hi or for general inquiries, send an email to: hello@thegridsystem.org

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