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Typography: Working with Grids

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Why do great designers use grids? Learn the principles of using grids to give your compositions strength and structure, break space into units, and streamline your design process.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Creating Basic Typographic Grids
  • Creating a manuscript or "book" grid
  • Creating grids with columns
  • Creating modular grids
  • Using grids to create hierarchy
  • Classic grids: The golden section rectangle and the Fleckhaus 12-column grid
2. Creating Complex Typographic Grids
  • Creating unequal modules within the grid
  • Creating grids for tabular matter
  • Breaking out of the grid: Creating movement and dynamism
  • Emphasizing creative chaos over order
3. Creative Challenge
  • Creative challenge: Design a poster or webpage
  • Creative challenge: Solutions
Conclusion
  • Recap and what's next

Taught by

Ina Saltz

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