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Layout and Composition: Grids

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Overview

Learn why grids are so important and how to use them to create strong and consistent designs.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Basics
  • Why grids and proportions?
  • Proportion: The golden section
  • Proportion: The square
  • Symmetry and asymmetry
2. The Pieces
  • The elements of a grid
  • Types of grids
  • Which grid is right?
  • Design process
3. Books
  • Designing the master grid
  • Working with the content
  • Symmetrical grids
  • Asymmetrical grids
4. Publications and Magazines
  • Column and modular grids
  • Working with complex content
  • Multiple grids
  • Unexpected grid systems
5. Posters
  • Designing the poster grid
  • Working with the content
  • Typographic posters
  • Alternative concepts
6. Other Formats
  • Website grids
  • Environmental grids
  • The grid in exhibition design
  • Inspiration
Conclusion
  • Recap

Taught by

Sean Adams

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