June 2009

Process: Airside by Airside

Air­side explains it’s process of cre­at­ing their book Air­side By Air­side. The arti­cle fea­tures a sec­tion on the grid sys­tem used for the layout.

1Kb CSS Grid

A light­weight grid sys­tem tool that gen­er­ates a sim­ple, clean and small CSS framework

Making Grids in Illustrator 2

The sec­ond part to Sig­ur­dur Armanns­son excel­lent arti­cle on cre­at­ing grid sys­tems in Adobe Illus­tra­tor. This arti­cle is based around the grid sys­tem devel­oped by Marcus Gärde.

Seven Smooth Steps to Superb Grids

While grid design is a sim­ple con­cept, there are now so many tools and ways of doing it that it might get con­fus­ing for newcomers.

Area 17

Area 17 is a Brook­lyn based stu­dio with a gor­geous grid-based website.

PDFGridder

An excel­lent grid tool that gen­er­ates a PDF ver­sion of the grid.

Making Grids in Illustrator

A detailed arti­cle by Sig­ur­dur Armanns­son on how to cre­ate a grid sys­tem in Adobe Illustrator.

O rule + Golden Proportion for Calculating the Gutter in a Grid

There is prac­ti­cally no (or very lit­tle) doc­u­men­ta­tion about this prob­lem on the web or in many typog­ra­phy or grid design books.

Photoshop 4 Column Grid

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

Hello: Limited Edition Skateboard Released

The lim­ited edi­tion Buddy Carr skate­board is now avail­able for pur­chase. Designed on a simple grid.

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.

For general inquiries or submissions, please send an email to: hello@thegridsystem.org

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