AisleOne Essentials
A single place for all designers to find the most essential books on graphic design, typography and grid systems.
View ArticleMaking and Breaking the Grid
A layout design workshop that assumes that to effectively break the rules of grid-based design one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-world projects.
View ArticleType Book/Grid Project
Project involving developing a grid system, and laying out an informational book on the usage of type, with text from various sources.
View ArticleThe Vignelli Canon
A 96 page PDF book by the master Massimo Vignelli on better understanding typography in graphic design with a nice section of grids.
View ArticleConstructing the Grid
Step by step guide on creating the grid used for the covers of the original Pelican Books.
View ArticleBarbican Identity Guidelines
Stunning guideline book for Barbican by UK based firm North Design. The book features a section on how grids are applied to the identity.
View ArticleLayout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids
This book outlines and demonstrate basic layout/grid guidelines and rules through 100 entries.
View ArticleThe Grid Book
Examines the history of ten grids that changed the world and charts the evolution of each.
View ArticleProcess: Airside by Airside
Airside explains it’s process of creating their book Airside By Airside. The article features a section on the grid system used for the layout.
View ArticleThinking with Type: Grid
An on-line companion to the book Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton that contains a section on single-column, multi-column and modular grids.
View ArticleOrdering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design
Ordering Disorder is a book by Khoi Vinh that delivers a definitive take on grids and the Web and provides both the big ideas and techniques of grid-based design.
View ArticleRegulatory Policy Newsletter
An article outlining the re-design of ICMA’s quarterly publication and its grid.
View ArticleMusings on the Relationship Between Grids and Guides
An article that that takes a look at the relationship between the grid and the use of guides.
View ArticleThe Columnist
A grid based WordPress theme that features a newspaper column layout and neat typographic hierarchy..
View ArticleRethinking CSS Grids
Mark Boulton pulled together some of his thoughts and concerns regarding CSS grids and how they could be created.
View ArticleFluid Baseline Grid
The Fluid Baseline Grid System is an HTML5 & CSS3 development kit that provides a solid foundation to quickly design websites with ease.
View ArticlephiRatio Proportions Calculator
phiRatio is an iOS tool to calculate different types of proportions. Not only calculates golden proportions, it also calculates 4:3, 16:9 and 3:2 ratios.
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