For designers working in every medium, layout is arguably the most basic, and the most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily. Just as arguable is the importance of pushing boundaries and breaking rules, and the urge among designers to violate rational structures has sparked a continuing debate for more than fifty years. Often this inclination is at the expense of clarity, but intuitive compositional approaches have generated some of the most interesting and exciting design ever created.

Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order t effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-world projects.

Features

-The Grid Basics section covers composing typographic space, format determination, and sequencing and systemization, in addition to the various types of grids: manuscript, column, modular, and hierarchal.

-Demonstrates the basics of grid-based design—and grid deconstruction—through schematic diagrams and exhibits of supporting graphic design work by top designers.

-Each project is shown comprehensively so readers can see its structure revealed over several pages, at a size that allows for inspection of detail.