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I think web designers could stand to study actual grid based graphic design and see how that applies to our current capabilities on the web. As for layout fram
by brailsafe 5y ago
I think web designers could stand to study actual grid based graphic design and see how that applies to our current capabilities on the web.
As for layout frameworks, I tried to learn them, but as far as I could tell they simply made bad/half assed design faster and easier. For a laughable amount of time they assumed you were building a desktop size column-based layout that was supposed to shrink, and anything different didn't work. So I never used them. It's fine if you're not hoping to produce a good design and just ship something generic, but idk if anything really good has come from them.
- Buttons840 5y ago> actual grid based graphic design Got any suggestions on where to start? I could Google, but I wouldn't know if what I found was "actual" grid based graphic design. I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm sincerely interested in non-web-based graphic design resources.
- vitovito 5y agoThe Grid Book, by publication designer Jan V. White: https://archive.org/details/gridbookguidetop00whit https://archive.org/details/gridbookguidetop00whit
- brailsafe 5y agoYes! The elements of Typographic Style is more Type oriented, likewise with Ellen Lupton's books. Grid Based Graphic Design by Müeller Brockmann is the one you want for grids specifically, and anything Swiss in general is probably fine.