For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic, and 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.Making and Breaking the Grid is 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 and see them applies to real-world projects.Text reveals top designers' work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.
- ISBN13 9781592531257
- Publish Date 1 April 2005 (first published 1 March 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 5 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rockport Publishers Inc.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English