balance
24.Feb.2007 10.32am
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hi

ive had great advice re: typeface identification from this community in the past so thought id post this here.

i have decided to base my dissertation on grid structures and am in the research stages at the moment.
any recommendations of interesting books on this subject would be greatly appreciated as im not one to trust the amazon reviews

regards

‹ ICK Doormat typography ›


v-six
24.Feb.2007 10.58am
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If you haven’t already been through it, Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann is probably the best historical source you’ll find—a great piece of high modernism.

Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara is a decent book about Grids in practice, and has a few bits of history in there as well. Maybe not the best book research though, it’s more of a guided tour for brainstorming ideas. Still, with full color and bleeds, it’s pretty amazing that this can be had at under $20. There’s plenty more also, I’m sure you’ll get plenty of good input.

Good luck!


bojev
24.Feb.2007 12.04pm
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The Grid by Allen Hurlburt - 1978 - Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, NY


balance
24.Feb.2007 1.23pm
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thanks for your help -much appreciated

been through grid systems but i shall be checking out the other 2 ASAP

regards


alexhb
24.Feb.2007 2.50pm
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Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Breaking-Grid-Graphic-Workshop/dp/156496893...


jupiterboy
24.Feb.2007 2.53pm
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I think many designers work out systematic approaches but don’t share so much beyond the fundamentals. It has all changed a bit with digital type as well—not being bound to the point system so tightly.

You’ve got to keep a little for yourself, and this is so clearly a part of design where you can differentiate yourself.


wolfgang_homola
7.Mar.2007 11.47am
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Hans Rudolf Bosshard: The typographic grid

Hans Rudolf Bosshard: ’Der Typograf als Entfesselungskunstler’, in
Typografische Monatsblatter, no 4, 1992

Hans Rudolf Bosshard: ’Gestalung mit Ratsersystemen’, in
Typografische Monatsblatter, no 6, 1992

Josef Muller-Brockmann: The typographic designer and his design problems

Josef Muller-Brockmann: The typographic grid

Jan Tschichold: ’Willkurfreie Massverhaltnisse der Buchseite’, in
Jan Tschichold: Schriften 1925–1974, vol 2, pp 288–313

Jan Tschichold: ’Die Proportionen des Buches’, in
Jan Tschichold: Schriften 1925–1974, vol 2, pp 141–176

Lucienne Robert: The designer and the grid

Wolfgang Homola: ’Lissitzky, the Swiss? Notes on the proto-grid system used
for the design of the book Moi Parizh’, in: Baseline, no 44, pp 13–20

Check also these:

Willi Kunz: Typography. Macro- and microaesthetics

Karl Gerstner: Programme entwerfen / designing programmes

Derek Birdsall: Notes on book design