Graphic design grids

When writing fiction, there is lots of advice out there in books and on the internet. One of the most important pieces of advice you can take on board is understanding that story is made up of four…

This versatile grid system is designed specifically for A0 printed poster projects. This grid / template system, along with layout examples and comprehensive style sheets, has been designed to reflect the Swiss / International Typographic Style of the mid…

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A3 portrait poster grid system and style sheets designed for Adobe InDesign. Use these modernist / swiss style layouts as a basis for your international typographic style or modernism inspired poster design.

Grid is one of the most basic elements that graphic designers should understand. Here are some major tips on how to use it effectively for your projects.

John Kane, A Type Primer, writes: To determine your grid you need to understand the amount of text and images, the kinds of images and text, the levels of meaning and importance, the relationships between test and image the relationship between text/images and reader. Columnar Layout There are columnar arrangements of books (from Ellen Lupton’s Thinking With Type site): Working from a hang line. From Ellen Lupton’s Thinking With Type site. Working from a hang line. From Ellen Lupton’s…

Aligning text and elements in your composition can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of a design project. The result has to be clean, easy to

In graphic design as in architecture the guts of a finished product are held u...

Recently I came across the short video below in which noted designer Massimo Vignelli suggests (PDF) we use too many typefaces and designers would be better off sticking with a dozen or so well done fonts our entire careers. I disagree, as have others, but it did get me thinking about how a limited palette […]