Universal Principles of Design is the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia of design.
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.
The Way of Typography
The book also goes into depth on how to create grid systems by hand with only pencil, straightedge and compass.
The Grid Book
Examines the history of ten grids that changed the world and charts the evolution of each.
Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids
This book outlines and demonstrate basic layout/grid guidelines and rules through 100 entries.
A Type Primer
A Type Primer provides a practical guide for beginners, presenting the basic principles and applications of typography. The book includes a section on how type is applied to a grid.
Five Simple Steps: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web
Aimed to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design.
Grid Index
Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems.
The Vignelli Canon
A 96 page PDF book by the master Massimo Vignelli on better understanding typography in graphic design with a nice section of grids.
Making and Breaking the Grid
A layout design workshop that assumes that to effectively break the rules of grid-based design one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-world projects.
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.
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.
Basics Design: Grids
The seventh book in the award-winning Basics Design series, Grids focuses on the construction and ordering of the page and screen through use of the grid.
Swiss Graphic Design
Adopted internationally, the grid and sans serif typefaces such as Helvetica became the classic emblems of Swiss graphic design.
Designer and the Grid
The Designer and the Grid reveals the key to the hidden driving force behind almost all graphic design: the grid.
Geometry of Design
The book focuses on the classic systems of proportioning, such as the golden section and root rectangles, as well as systems such as the Fibonacci Series.
The Typographic Grid
We consider this to be the academic part two to “Grid Systems.” Hans Rudolf Bosshard tackles a deeper understanding of the complex grid.
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
Grid Systems provides a rich, easy-to-understand overview and demonstrates a step-by-step approach to typographic composition.
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
The manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers. Considered by most to be the definitive book on grid systems. This book is a must for any designer.
