Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
by Timothy Samara
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Author: Timothy SamaraEdition: Paperback
Published: 2005-05-01
ISBN: 1592531253
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
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Book Review: Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
Summary: 5 Stars
This book excellent for graphic designers and anyone who needs to create professional appealing graphic layouts. As an interior designer, I purchased this book to help me design my portfolio and will continue to resource it for project presentation layouts. The visual breakdowns are inspirational; and the text, informative.
Summary of Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
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.
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