Designing with Grids in InDesign (2013)

- [Voiceover] I'm Nigel French. Welcome to Designing with Grids in InDesign. Whether you're designing a business card, a poster, a single-sided flyer, a printed magazine, a digital magazine, or a book, you'll design will be better if you use a grid. Grids provide the structure that underpins good design. They take the guesswork out of where to place content on our page or canvas, and establish rhythm and hierarchy. There are several aspects to working with grids in InDesign, establishing margins and columns, defining a layout grid, setting up and working with a baseline grid.

Sometimes, grids can be frustrating, and we'll be looking at how we can take control of our grid and not the other way around. Grids impose constraint but they also give us flexibility. Part of using grids well is knowing when to break them, and we'll be talking about when you need to break your grid, either because it's too restrictive or for graphic effect. Let's get started.