Designers and GRIDS

A Grid establish a system for arranging content within the space of a page, screen, or built environment. They also break space or time into regular units. Typographic grids are an effective and flexible formula that help maintain control. They are the basis for a designer's guide in generating a method of construction and layout. They help organize characters into their own block. The margins, gutters, and empty spaces create a frame. The work depends on the frame for its status and visibility because it makes it unique and different. Grids allow a designer to use their own framework in a simple way but at the same time it also allows them to have their own style and twist, because there are so many different ways to approach. Especially when it comes to all the different rulers, guides, and coordinate systems, which allows the structure to be so flexible, simple, or complex. The example above shows a very complex formulation of columns and rows, which are formed by the gutters and margins. Those empty spaces become the framework for the design layout and make it very unique and intriguing. The lower example is very simple and has less text, which means not all the boxes are filled with text. It shows the text in columned format and also in row format. Just by choosing to do such little things can make a big impact in layout and overall design.