Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Grids and Page Layouts: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Applying Page Design Principles

Introduction : Vignelli Associates: approach to grid-based design --
Elements of a grid system : An overview : Oikos Associati: turning the grid into a focal point 
 Basic structures : Single-column/manuscript grids 
 Multicolumn grids 
 Modular grids 
 Hierarchical grids 
 Baseline grids 
 Compound grids --
Uppercase magazine : Multicolumn flexibility --
Behind the grid : An overview 
 Type & column widths --
How magazine: designing for designers : Type & vertical increments 
 Type & balance in columns 
 The golden section --
Lucid design: the twelve-column grid & website design 
 Hierarchy/organization of information : An overview 
 Organizing the content 
 Scale & impact 
 Typographic techniques can impact flow 
 Negative space as a map 
 Using relative position to establish importance 
 Color can bring content forward, or push it back 
 Brandon Bird Design: grids on display 
 Elements: a modular system to ease line extension 
 The Official Manufacturing Company: divisions in space form content areas --
Page structure 
 An overview 
 Size & shape of the page 
 Page margins 
 Caserta Design: layout that evokes an emotional response 
 Live area: page size 
 Symmetry & composition 
 Folds & relationship of content across pages 
 Production considerations --
UnderConsideration: grouping with grids --
Content structure : An overview 
 Development of read/progression of info 
 Grouping information 
 Rhythm & flow 
 Pacing 
 Memo Productions: content Is king 
 Alexander Isley, Inc.: illustration grouped with text 
 Here Design: illustrations add flavor to layouts --
Relationship of design components : An overview 
 How text & image can be separated 
 How text & image can be unified 
 Space 
 Scale 
 804: spatial flexibility 
 WIRED magazine: design fidelity across platforms --
Type as image : An overview 
 Hand lettering & illustrative typography 
 Caption treatment 
 Pull quotes 
 Folios & wayfinding 
 Matador: layout with a typographic focus --
Color : An overview 
 Color as a unifying element 
 Color as an organizational tool 
 AdamsMorioka: for the love of color --
Breaking the rules : An overview 
 Grid deconstruction 
 Optical composition 
 Organic design 
 Modern Dog: design organically but think rationally.