Features
- The Grid Basics section covers composing typographic space, format determination, and sequencing and systemization, in addition to the various types of grids: manuscript, column, modular, and hierarchical.
- Demonstrates the basics of grid–based design–and grid deconstruction–through schematic diagrams and exhibits of supporting graphic design work by top designers.
- Each project is shown compresensively so readers can see its structure revealed over several pages, at a size that allows for inspection of detail.
- Text reveals the designers' working process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structural ideas.
- Historical overviews summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid-based, in modern design practice.