Articles
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6 Tips and Tricks for Designing with the 960 Grid System
For those just getting started or interested in learning it, I give you six of my favorite tips and tricks for designing with the 960 grid system.
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Complex Grid
Karl Gerstner designed this grid for his work on the CAPITAL magazine. This is actually a six-column grid with a four-column grid superimposed. Karl suggests that this grid requires considerable study, and a designer would have to spend a great deal of time working with it before he could make free use of it in a creative sense.
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Making Modular Layout Systems
A highly flexible and human-readable system for layout manipulation from Jason Santa Maria.
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Grids & Rationality
When you take a set of intersecting vertical, and horizontal axis, and slam them together in some form, you usually end up with a grid. If you don’t, you’re doing something terribly wrong.
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Redesigning Dwell
Interview with Kyle Blue (former Walker Design Fellow) about Dwell's (somewhat) recent redesign.
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CSS Grid Framework
Layout grids have been used in print publishing long before the Web. They're an invisible foundation used to achieve visual cohesion in magazine and newspaper page design and layout.
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Grid Based News Designs from Down Under
Australian News Websites provide an excellent example of grid based design.
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Inspiration Charge of April: Grid Systems
This month, Inspiration Charge covers some great stuff about Grid systems on design.
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65 Resources for Grid-Based Design
Grid-based design is obviously a popular approach in modern web design. Ford designers that use grids, this post includes links to useful tools that can improve your efficiency and effectiveness, as well as some articles for advanced techniques. For those of you who are not as familiar with the details of grid-based design, there are plenty of articles and learning resources here.
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Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques
A grid that has creatively overlapping, escaping, or energizing columns leads to a more enjoyable user experience. Discovering or planning areas of the design that will have some freedom will lead to more interesting and appealing design solutions.