Grid systems have been used in print design, architecture and interior design for generations. Now, on the web, the same rules of grid system composition and usage no longer apply. Content is viewed in many ways; from RSS feeds to email. Content is viewed on many devices; from mobile phones to laptops. Users can manipulate the browser, they can remove content, resize the canvas, resize the typefaces. A designer is no longer in control of this presentation. So where do grid systems fit in to all that?
15. We ‘embed’ stuff *
with intelligence
all around us
* Objects, processes, software applications, cars, washing machines, toasters,
smart phones, not-so-smart phones, computers, number systems, language and
on and on and on.
27. ‘‘Though largely forgotten
today, methods and rules
upon which it is impossible
to improve have been
developed for centuries.
To produce perfect books
these rules have to be
brought to life.’
Jan Tschichold
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30. ‘Tangible proportion, which
together with the textblock
produce an antiphonal
geometry, which has the
capability to bind the
reader to the book’
Robert Bringhurst