Grid layout book recommendations

November 29, 2005 5:16 PM

Any recommendations for books on grid layout systems for print?
posted by spyke23 to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Best answer: Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type and tangentially, Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition, both by Kimberly Elan. The page proportion diagrams and tables in Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style are useful also.
posted by Dean King at 5:40 PM on November 29, 2005

Dean King pretty much nails it. All great books.

You might also consider The Design of Books by Adrian Wilson and (if you have a few hundred bucks to drop), Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Muller-Brockman.
posted by Jeff Howard at 6:53 PM on November 29, 2005

I second the Elam book. I also like Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara.
posted by O9scar at 6:59 PM on November 29, 2005

Ah yes, Hurlburt. Grid: A Modular System for the Design and Production of Newpapers, Magazines, and Books is a good overview and history, although a little dated now (1978).
posted by Dean King at 9:54 AM on November 30, 2005