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The Columnist

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

Grid-A-Licious 2.0

A beau­ti­ful grid based theme for WordPress.

Bon Graf Pads

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

Raster Systems Tote Bag

Lovely orange and black tote bag fea­tur­ing a design that fea­tures a sim­ple grid system.

Forum is back up!

Sorry for the down­time on the forums. They’re back up now.

Sushi & Robots

Beau­ti­fully per­sonal port­fo­lio by Jina Bolton that reveals the site grid and baseline grid.

Bisgrafic

Lovely grid site design by Barcelona based Bisgrafic.

Grid Based Designs

A gallery show­cas­ing some of the world’s best web­sites designed based on a grid.

Buy Slammer = Help Haiti

The grid-generating app Slam­mer is part of the Indie+Relief ini­tia­tive. Buy it and all pro­ceeds from today (01/20) will be donated to Haiti.

Eternal Network

Lovely min­i­mal grid based site design that’s rem­i­nis­cent of old computer paper.

Limited Edition 2010 Letterpress Calendar

Grid-based lim­ited edi­tion let­ter­press cal­en­dar set in Helvetica.

Basic Maths WordPress Theme

Basic Maths is an ele­gant grid-based Word­Press theme by Khoi Vinh and Allan Cole that fea­tures color-scheme con­trol and sup­ports microformats.

Neutica+

Neu­tica+ is a Word­Press theme that fea­tures a strict, grid based design mixed with clean typography.

Evo4 CMS WordPress Theme

A Word­Press theme based on a 4-column grid system.

Build Typeface

Build is a grid based hand­set type­face designed by Steven Bon­ner to give a struc­tured, geo­met­ric look to short pas­sages of type such as head­lines and is per­fect for display usage.

DixonBaxi

UK based cre­ative agency, Dixon­Baxi, has just launched a new site designed on a beautiful grid.

Auer

A site by Dan Auer, a graphic designer from North Car­olina, that allows you to view the sites grid.

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.

Area 17

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

Hello: Limited Edition Skateboard Released

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

Andrew Stewart Photography

Beau­ti­ful, sim­ple, grid based site design for pho­tog­ra­pher Andrew Stewart.

5 Column Grid Typeface

A type­face designed on a 5 col­umn grid as a frame­work for build­ing a mod­u­lar font family.

Warm Forest Templates

Flash based tem­plates that are designed with a strong focus on typog­ra­phy, grids and usability.

Grid Based Clock Screensaver

A Grid-Based-Clock-Screensaver for OS X cre­ated by Build.

Interview on Reading Between The Leading

Aaron and Matt invited me to be a part of their online design talk show, Read­ing Between The Lead­ing, where we dis­cussed grid sys­tems and more.

Almost Modern

The Nether­lands based stu­dio Almost Mod­ern have launched a new grid based site design.

The Grid System in Creative Review

A few weeks ago Cre­ative Review Mag­a­zine con­tacted me about doing a small piece in their Feb­ru­ary issue about The Grid System.

The Grid System Forum

Sign up if you have any ques­tions on grids, need help with a grid you’re con­struct­ing, want to get some feed­back on some work or just want to learn about the his­tory of grid systems.

Barbican Identity Guidelines

Stun­ning guide­line book for Bar­bi­can by UK based firm North Design. The book fea­tures a sec­tion on how grids are applied to the identity.

LegiStyles

LegiStyles™ are a series of cus­tom styles for the RSS reader Net­NewsWire that focus on design and typography.

Redesigning Unit Interactive

Unit Inter­ac­tive dis­cusses the redesigned of their web­site which includes a sec­tion of the grid sys­tem used for the site.

Simon Hoegsberg Photography

Sim­ple and func­tional grid based site design.

Type Book/Grid Project

Project involv­ing devel­op­ing a grid sys­tem, and lay­ing out an infor­ma­tional book on the usage of type, with text from various sources.

Re-subscribe to the RSS feed

The feed url has changed so please unsub­scribe to the old feed and re-subscribe to the new one. Thanks.

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-A-Licious

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

Six Grid Desktop

A desk­top wall­pa­per by Sarah France that allows you to orga­nize your files in accor­dance to type and subject.

BBC Visual Language

A down­load­able PDF focus­ing on the redesign of the BBC web­site which includes a sec­tion of the grid used for the layout.

AisleOne Essentials

A sin­gle place for all design­ers to find the most essen­tial books on graphic design, typog­ra­phy and grid systems.

Wim Crouwel’s Vormgevers 1968

The poster has been metic­u­lously restored from the orig­i­nal, mak­ing it an exact replica of the 1968 ver­sion drawn by Wim Crouwel’s own hand.

Sarah France

Beau­ti­ful port­fo­lio site by Sarah France with a well designed six col­umn grid system.

UX Magazine

A well designed col­lab­o­ra­tive site, with a very nice grid struc­ture, that focuses on user experience.

Doane Paper Utility Notebook

A portable note­book fea­tur­ing a patent pend­ing Grid+Lines sta­tionery design that com­bines the ben­e­fits of grid and ruled lines onto a sin­gle sheet of paper.

Replica Typeface

Replica is a new type­face by Norm that was designed on a strict grid sys­tem. Avail­able in the fol­low­ing weights: Reg­u­lar, Italic, Light, Light Italic, Bold and Bold Italic.

The Grid Systems T-Shirt

Grid Sys­tems dates from antiq­uity and orig­i­nated in mul­ti­ple cul­tures; some of the ear­li­est shirts and cities were built using grids. Grid Sys­tems is a lim­ited edition T-Shirt.

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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