Samara Timothy. Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

Rockport Publishers, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN: 9781631592843.Basics include composing typographic space, format determination, and sequencing and systemization. Various types of grids manuscript, column, modular, hierarchical are also covered.Text reveals top designers' work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Each project is shown comprehensively so readers can see its structure revealed over several pages, at a size that allows for inspection of detail.Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.