Making and breaking the grid [electronic resource] : a graphic design layout workshop / Timothy Samara.

By: Samara, Timothy [author].

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BookPublisher: [Beverly, MA], Rockport Publishers/ Quarto Knows : [Date of publication not identified]Edition: Second edition.Description: online resource (240 pages) : color illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781631592843 (paperback); 9781631594090 (e-book).Subject(s): Layout (Printing)

| Graphic design (Typography)

DDC classification: 686.2252 Online resources: E-book

Contents:

Thoughts on structure an introduction -- Making the grid -- Coming to order - a brief history of the grid in graphic design -- Grid basics fundamental concepts of page structure -- Building a grid making the structure that suits your needs -- Using a grid considerations and best practices -- Exhibits design projects based on grids -- Breaking the grid -- On the other hand - a historical survey of non-structural design tendencies -- Alternative architectures -- Intuitive, relational, and conceptual -- Considering the practical in the impractical -- Exhibits design projects without grids.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules.

First edition published 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CIT Module DESI 6012 - Core reading.

Electronic reproduction.: EBSCO/ GOBI/Proquest Ebook Central. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Timothy Samara is a graphic designer based in New York City, where he divides his time between teaching, writing, lecturing, and freelance consulting through STIM Visual Communication. His 18-year career in branding and information design has explored projects in print, packaging, environments, user interface design, and animation. He has been a senior art director at Ruder Finn, New York's largest public relations firm, and senior art director at Pettistudio, a small multidisciplinary design firm. Before relocating to Manhattan, he was principal of Physiologic in Syracuse, located in upstate New York. In 1990, he graduated a Trustee Scholar from the Graphic Design program at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Mr. Samara is a faculty member at New York's School of Visual Arts, New York University, Purchase College/SUNY, and The New School, and has published six books on design and typography, all through Rockport Publishers: Making and Breaking the Grid; Typography Workbook; Publication Design Workbook; Type Style Finder; Design Elements ; and Design Evolution .