Making and breaking the grid
by Timothy Samara · first published 2002
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…you come across. Have fun with it. – Layout: I haven't found a great resource for this. You can have a look at Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockman, which set the tone for layout in the 20th century. Making and Breaking the Grid is a modern spin on grid-based layout. Read about book design since that's the oldest and most developed layout system. You can start with Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_design. Generally…
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on “Ask HN: Typography—How?” ↗…the SSR approach (using Illustrator - though as an engineer I still have so far to go there - great skillshare courses by Daniel Scott). Gotten into Sarah Drasner's great design for developer courses. (Making and Breaking the Grid mentioned there is a great book.) Recently via https://medium.com/@PepsRyuu/why-i-no-longer-use-d3-js-b8288... and a desire to use the minimum tools necessary to get the job done, I'm totally aligned…
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