Description
📘 Book Information
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Title: Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
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Author: Timothy Samara
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Publisher: Rockport Publishers
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Publication Date: May 1, 2005
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Format: Paperback
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Pages: 208
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ISBN-13: 978-1592531257
📖 About this Book
Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive and practical guide to understanding and applying grid-based layout systems in graphic design. Rather than treating grids as rigid constraints, the book explores how designers can first master structured systems and then intentionally break them to create dynamic, expressive compositions.
Through real-world projects and detailed analysis, Timothy Samara reveals how professional designers use grids as both organizational tools and creative frameworks. The book presents a wide range of layout strategies, showing how structure and flexibility can coexist in effective visual communication.
By linking projects with similar structural characteristics and providing historical context, this book enables designers to compare, analyze, and experiment with layout systems. It ultimately encourages designers to move beyond rules—developing a deeper, more intuitive understanding of composition.
📑 Table of Contents
- Introduction to Layout and Grid Systems
- Understanding Structure in Visual Communication
- Fundamentals of Grid-Based Design
- Breaking the Grid: Experimental Approaches
- Comparative Layout Studies
- Project-Based Case Studies
- Historical Context of Layout Development
- Non-Grid and Hybrid Systems
📝 Editorial Reviews
“A comprehensive workshop that demonstrates how understanding grid systems leads to more effective and expressive layout design.”
“Encourages designers to move beyond rigid rules and develop a flexible, concept-driven approach to composition.”
“A valuable resource for exploring both structured and experimental layout strategies in modern design practice.”
🎓 Course Relevance
This book is highly relevant for:
- Typography II
- Layout & Composition
- Editorial Design
- Visual Communication Systems
At Hesed University, it serves as an advanced application text, helping students transition from understanding grid systems to creatively manipulating and breaking them. It pairs especially well with Grid Systems in Graphic Design as a progression from foundational structure to expressive design practice.
✨ Hesed Note
✨ Your purchase provides one week of course materials for a Hesed student.
📖 Handpicked by Hesed University faculty as essential reading for our programs.
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