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Swiss style grids, part 1

Swiss style grids, part 1

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Swiss style grids, part 1

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- Raise your hand if you've heard of grids. It seems like grids and graphic design just go together. Some of you work with grids, some don't. Some of you like grids, some don't. Some material is more suited to a grid than others. Whatever the case though, it seems like every designer is touched in some way by the grid. There are two kinds of grid. One is the responsive grid, which we looked at a while back. That's a grid that flexes according to what's on the page. The other is a geometric grid, sometimes called Swiss style or international style. It's fixed and that's what we'll look at today. A good book on this subject is Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Muller-Brockmann. If you don't have it I encourage you to get it. It's a design school classic. It's dry and not the only treatment of the topic but very well known. It's the basics really well. The Swiss style is fixed or immobile. You set up a page of horizontal and vertical lines like you see here on the cover. And make…

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