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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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A Classic. Every Designer's Library Should Have This Book,
By "visorfan" (Sudbury, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Grid: A Modular System for the Design and Production of Newpapers, Magazines, and Books (Paperback)
Don't let the publication date throw you off. I've got the 1978 version, and it's still absolutely relevant. I've never found another book like it. Any designer creating magazine pages or multi-page publications will find core insights here. The book itself represents elegantly timeless information design. A great resource, great tool, great inspiration. Add this one to your collection.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A must have for anyone involved in producing books/magazines,
By Alfta "Golden Boar Creations www.goldenboar.com" (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Grid: A Modular System for the Design and Production of Newpapers, Magazines, and Books (Paperback)
With The Grid, Allen Hurlburt gives us a balanced introduction to the use of Grids in the layout of magazines, newspapers and books. Hurlburts presentation is a good, balanced and basic introduction to how grids are used in graphic design.
After a brief history of the use of grids, the book is divided into three sections. Each section deals with a specific form of print; newspapers, magazines and books. Hurlburt gives plenty of examples in each section of some of the best uses of the grid and details of the people who designed them and how they used them. We not only get plenty of examples from print but we get to see the underlying grid that was used to produce that print. A wide variety of grids are outlined and the reader will be sure to find one grid system that works best for him/her. Despite the fact that the book was published in 1978 it retains its relevance especially given the increased popularity of desktop publishing software such as Adobe InDesign™. I found that the grids from this book worked perfectly in my design work with InDesign. There is a seven page technology appendix which is completely useless due to the age of the book, but this in no ways detracts from its value. Bottom line? If you are involved in producing magazines, books and/or newspapers, this book should be in your library.
7 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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excellent resource,
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an excellent reference book for magazine or newspaper layout artists.
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The design of the format of the Times has been gradually evolving in the years since 1931. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
makeup sheets, flat plan, area composition, golden rectangle, dynamic symmetry, golden section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Massimo Vignelli, Minneapolis Tribune, Frank Ariss, Peter Palazzo, Times Roman, Will Hopkins, Alan Fletcher, Jan Tschichold, Stanley Morison, Walter Bernard New!
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The design of the format of the Times has been gradually evolving in the years since 1931. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
makeup sheets, flat plan, area composition, golden rectangle, dynamic symmetry, golden section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Massimo Vignelli, Minneapolis Tribune, Frank Ariss, Peter Palazzo, Times Roman, Will Hopkins, Alan Fletcher, Jan Tschichold, Stanley Morison, Walter Bernard New!
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- News headlines (Editing and design) by Harold Evans on page 7, and Back Matter
- The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry (Dover Art Instruction) by Jay Hambidge in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Black Cat and Other Stories (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by Edgar Allen Poe on page 52
- Design of Books by Adrian Wilson in Back Matter
- Production for the Graphic Designer by James Craig in Back Matter
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- Illustrating With Macromedia Flash™ MX 2004 (Internet Series) by Robert Firebaugh in Back Matter
- Renaissance eLearning: Creating Dramatic and Unconventional Learning Experiences by Samantha Chapnick in Back Matter
- Layout Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Building Pages in Graphic Design by Kristin Cullen in Back Matter
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