Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Résumé du livre

The present volume on the function and use of the grid system is intended to provide the designer operating in two and three dimensions with a practical working instrument which will enable him to handle visual problems and solve them in terms of conception, organization, and design with greater speed and confidence. At the same time it places in the hands of the educator an aid which he can use to good effect in tuition based on the solution of practical problems. It will afford the student an opportunity to familiarize himself with the essentials of the grid and ways of producing it and also to learn how to use it through his own exercises. The author has sought to identify and explain in detail step by step the essential points to be observed in the design of a grid. To make rational and functional use of the grid, the designer must subject all the criteria to a careful study. The fact that the great majority of designers are ignorant of such a system for establishing order or that they fail to understand and therefore to use it properly may be taken as a sign that the use of the grid is something that calls for serious study. Anyone willing to take the necessary trouble will find that, with the aid of the grid system, he if better fitted to find a solution to his design problems which is functional, logical and also more aesthetically pleasing (text for this volume is in parallel English and German).