Autorentext
Timothy Samara is a graphic designer based in New York City, where he divides his time between teaching, writing, lecturing, and consulting through STIM Visual Communication. His 18-year career in branding and information design has explored projects in print, packaging, environments, user interface design, and animation. He has been a senior art director at Ruder Finn, New York's largest public relations firm, and senior art director at Pettistudio, a small multidisciplinary design firm. Before relocating to Manhattan, he was principal of Physiologic in Syracuse, located in upstate New York. In 1990, he graduated a Trustee Scholar from the Graphic Design program at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Mr. Samara is a faculty member at New York's School of Visual Arts, New York University, Purchase College/SUNY, and The New School, and has published six books on design and typography, all through Rockport Publishers: Making and Breaking the Grid; Typography Workbook; Publication Design Workbook; Type Style Finder; Design Elements, Design Evolution, and Letterforms. Mr. Samara and his partner live in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Klappentext

Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Third Edition) is the ultimate resource for designers who want to understand the rules of the grid, so they can get better at breaking them.

Zusammenfassung
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Third Edition) is the ultimate resource for designers who want to understand the rules of the grid, so they can get better at breaking them.

Inhalt
Thoughts on Structure
An Introduction
MAKING THE GRID
BREAKING THE GRID
Coming to Order
A Brief History of the Grid
in Visual Communication
Understanding Grids

The Basics of Structured
Organization
Building a Grid

Making the Structure
That Suits Your Needs
Using a Grid

Considerations and
Best Practices
EXHIBITS
Design Projects
Based on Grids
On the Other Hand
A Historical Survey of
Non-Structural
Design Tendencies
Alternative
Architectures

Structure Beyond
Grid Structure
Intuitive, Relational,
and Conceptual

Liberating Layout
Strategies
Considering the Practical
in the Impractical

Reconciling Usability
and Weirdness
EXHIBITS
Design Projects
Without Grids
Directory of Contributors
Index by Subject
Recommended Reading
About the Author/
Acknowledgments