Designing with or without grid: Opinions
Kr0n (38 pencils) | Wed, 2005-01-26 08:41Hi all, i'm recently reading the book 'Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop' by Timothy Samara. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564968936/002-7407385-3585602
It's a good book, and i'm learning a lot ;) But i'm really interested in see how many of you, proffesional designers, use the grid (or, in the other hand, don't use the grid) for your day-by-day designs...i mean, not for books or similar (which is more usual, i suppose), but for posters, collage, and so on.
Do you take into account the grid normally? Do you establish it in a first step before start with the design (sketch, etc.)? Or, au contraire, do you ignore it usually? Which is better for what, fixed grid, dynamic grid...? I want to know your opinions guys and learn from your knowledge! :)
My opinion about, is that i use to mentally establish a grid (not often a regular grid, but organic usually), but without any knowledge, just my mind 'knows' what is better for each element...suppose, the next step is to do it with knowledge ;)
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i only use the rule of golden means and distract from it to create tension and so on. grid is only for web and corporate literature.
Most all of our designs start with pencil and paper (with no grid).
With all the digital tools and options out there for design, I find that planning designs on paper allow me to take the art to the computer with a better composition scheme.
That said, I don't think I've ever used a grid.
Terrell Thornhill
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I rarely use a grid, though I have become a huge fan of the align palette. I use that for pretty much everything now. I find most time I turn off snaps and never use a grid for the most part because I seem to be hindered more then helped my them. That being said, I was working on something in Illustrator yesterday where I used the grid.
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