Grid design is a fundamental skill of any designer. Understanding proportional relationships, white space and composition are all vital in constructing a grid for any delivery platform – web, print & real 3d environments.
Lots of things are designed to grids – city blocks, Interior space, building exteriors and of course books, and more recently websites. Why is this formal arrangement of lines so comfortable to us now? What makes horizontals and verticals work for a huge range of applications? Think about it, why are they everywhere?
Superimpose a building elevation, a page in a book or a website page and with very little adjustment they will fit, but most importantly they will all work and feel right.
Grids are a standard way of organizing things visually, from bricks to letter, understanding how to create harmonious arrangements based on a grid allows us, as designers, to communicate better.
The squares, or lines, a grid creates can be divided and then divided again. How it is divided is critical in function of the grid.
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