Have you looked at ’the typographic grid’ by H.R.Bossard?

Will

Hello rdc...

You’ll get a much better response from Google and the information that that brings back for you... This question, or similar has been asked far lots of times in these forums, even if we all came back with our opinions, thats all they are, opinions. You’ll be better off looking into the subject and researching it yourself. You’ll learn far more too... In all honesty, there’s nothing better than good ’swiss’ books on the subject.

Best of luck.

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Rez

Does anyone know of any interesting books that debates the use of the design grid.

Assuming that your school has a library, there’s probably a whole shelf of such books. And there are probably several people sitting behind a desk just waiting to help you find it.

Rez is right. And my first port-of-call would be Josef Muller-Brockmann.

English is not my native language but if someone calls it “the design grid” I think he or she has to elaborate more on what design is (is about). So my opinion is pro.

I wrote an essay about the use of white space in typography. I can’t share the essay, but here are (most) of the books I referenced.

Bibliography

Bringhurst, Robert
The Elements of Typographic Style. 2nd edn.
Canada: Hartley & Marks, 1999.

Dowding, Geoffrey
Finer Points in the Spacing and Arranging of Type. 2nd edn.
London: Wace & Company Ltd., 1966.

Gerstner, Karl
Compendium for Literates.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1974.

Gerstner, Karl
Designing Programmes.
London: Alec Tiranti Ltd., 1964.

Hartley, James
Designing Instructional Text. 3rd edn.
London: Kogan Page, 1994.

Kunz, Willi
Typography: Macro+ and Micro- aesthetics.
Switzerland: Verlag Niggli AG, 1998.

McLean, Ruari
The Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.

Morison, Stanley
First Principles of Typography. 2nd edn.
Leiden: Academic Press Leiden, 1996.

Schriver, Karen A.
Dynamics in Document Design.
U.S.A.: Katherine Schowalter, 1997.

Spencer, Herbert
The Visible Word. 2nd edn.
London: Lund Humphries, 1969.

Spiekermann, Eric and Ginger, E.M.
Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works.
California: Adobe Press, 1993.

Sykes, J.B. ed.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary (of Current English) 7th edn.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Tschichold, Jan
Asymmetric Typography. Trans. Ruari McLean.
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1967.

Twyman, Michael
“A Schema for the Study of Graphic Language.”
Processing of Visible Language 2 vols.
New York: Plenum Press, 1979. pp. 117-150.

Twyman, Michael
“The Graphic Presentation of Language.”
Information Design Journal Vol. 3/1 (1982): pp. 2-22.

Waller, Robert H.W.
“Typographic Access Structures for Educational Texts.”
Processing of Visible Language 2 vols.
New York: Plenum Press, 1979. pp. 175-187.

I know quite a good book called ’making and breaking the grid’
by Timothy Samara.
Also, you may find general typography books useful. Try ’the fundementals of typography’ by Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris.

I know quite a good book called ’making and breaking the grid’
by Timothy Samara.
Also, you may find general typography books useful. Try ’the fundementals of typography’ by Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris.