Eventually, Grid is all about Unity and Variety (Kroeger, 2008). If we just break then lay out, then break then lay out, and so forth, nothing is going to change this process will go on incessantly to no end. The reason for many wanting to break the Grid is because they know not what the hell to do in adherence to it”. “The purpose is to adhere to Grid, and to perform it correctly. According to Paul Rand, in “Paul Rand: Conversations with Students”: The reason is because this term is far too confusing, which is detrimental to inexperienced designers. This is a good visual book which demonstrates to us the Grid System behind every design in my view, however, this book is but for show, for its conveyance is unclear, and I am not in favor of coining the term “Break the Grid”. Apparently, the birth of the book “Making and Breaking the Grid” gave rise to the term “Break the Grid”, which became eminent unlike nothing before. It is the reason why Muller-Brockmann wrote books on Grid System, and that was why Swiss Design became the International Style.Īnother mistake regarding Grid is “break the grid”. And to encourage designers to use Grid, despite which being not a godly tool, is to encourage order, logic, and creativity of the Graphic Designers. Particularly within today’s context, as designers can design in haste, with too many elements, the Grid’s “Design Regulation” role comes into force better than ever. Grid System was created with the mindset: approach design only if you practice it. “The idea of the grid is that it gives you a system of order and still gives you plenty of variety.” Paul Rand’s citation from his “Paul Rand: Conversations with Students”: Grid System regulates Design, at the same time opening up a horizon of solutions for layouts. Why? Because even if designers do not require Grid System to be designers, Grid System will render everything more feasible. However, if one asks me (Huy), whether we should know Grid System, the answer is yes. “Even in the simplest solutions, the designer needs a good sense of composition & a feeling for the rhythm sequence of picture & text.” Bear in mind, however, that what constitutes a graphic designer is intuition, or the sense for design (detail in note: Design Anthropology: an Introduction. In design, similar relationships such as those (visuals and text) are obscure, hence the emergence of Grid System which acts as a glue sticking all visual elements as a whole, forming relationships between them. What a designer needs instead, is to organised, and to weave visual elements together in a logical manner, like when we arrange a towel, a pen, a bottle of water, a book on a table, without knowing that we should not place the bottle of water near the book (in case of spillage), and the towel is not to be put atop the bottle (unaesthetic), and put not the book on the pen (low detect-ability). Therefore, Grid System is not as magical as the majority of us have imagined, and Grid System is not something that makes creating a fine layout a certainty.
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