Musings on the Relationship Between Grids and Guides
An article that takes a look at the relationship between the grid and the use of guides.
“ The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice. ” Josef Müller-Brockmann
An article that takes a look at the relationship between the grid and the use of guides.
An article outlinng the redesign of ICMA’s quarterly publication and its grid.
Grids, along with visual hierarchy, typography, color theory, rhythm, etc., are the basic foundations of design and yet they are widely ignored by the industry.
A columns, rows and midpoints panel for Photoshop CS4 & CS5.
A web app and Photoshop extension that aids in creating modular grid systems.
A CSS grid framework that’s based on a baseline of 1.4x the paragraph text-size, 160px columns, with gutters of 20px.
Ordering Disorder is a book by Khoi Vinh that delivers a definitive take on grids and the Web and provides both the big ideas and techniques of grid-based design
Universal Principles of Design is the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia of design.
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web has written explanations of the core principles of graphic design in relation to the web
A selection of 960 pixel-wide uniform grid templates ranging from 3-columns to 16-columns, for both Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks.
A PSD template based on the CSS framework The Golden Grid by Vladimir Carrer.
A free 4 Column Photoshop grid template for a 1024×768 screen resolution by Ray Gulick.
A grid based WordPress theme that features a newspaper column layout and neat typographic hierarchy.
A beautiful grid-based theme for WordPress.
A range of beautifully crafted grid layout pads printed on acid free 100gsm uncoated paper and made in Australia.