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Is there an edition of Grid Systems with just English for, uh, half the price? I don't think I need a copy in German as well.
by natesm 14y ago
Is there an edition of Grid Systems with just English for, uh, half the price? I don't think I need a copy in German as well.
- msutherl 14y agoThere is not. And honestly I don't think it's a must have. It's certainly a beautiful book, but you can learn most of what you need to know about grids just by Googling around. Typography is a comparatively much more complex topic, warranting the purchase of a book, and there's more to layout than grids and Swiss-German design. If you want to buy a beautiful multi-lingual design book from that era, Emil Ruder's Typographie is the better buy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3721200438/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=morgasuthe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=3721200438 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3721200438/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
- discovr 14y agoI wish. I can't read German either :( Some secondhand copies around, but they're still expensive. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/3721201450/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/3721201450/ref=dp_olp...
- timc3 14y agoAs someone who has owned it for years, it's still one of my favourite books, but you don't need to read it for UI design, there are other references now days
- jedmund 14y agoThe copy you get from Amazon is bilingual in German/English and it's totally worth it. The way they set the bilingual text in itself is a pretty fascinating study on grid systems. I read this book in design school and its probably some of the best reading I've ever done. If I had to pick one book out of all of these, it'd be this one.