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Typography: Working with Grids

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Typography Courses Poster Design Courses

Course Description

Overview

Why do great designers use grids? Learn the principles of using grids to give your compositions strength and structure, break space into units, and streamline your design process.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Creating Basic Typographic Grids
  • Creating a manuscript or "book" grid
  • Creating grids with columns
  • Creating modular grids
  • Using grids to create hierarchy
  • Classic grids: The golden section rectangle and the Fleckhaus 12-column grid
2. Creating Complex Typographic Grids
  • Creating unequal modules within the grid
  • Creating grids for tabular matter
  • Breaking out of the grid: Creating movement and dynamism
  • Emphasizing creative chaos over order
3. Creative Challenge
  • Creative challenge: Design a poster or webpage
  • Creative challenge: Solutions
Conclusion
  • Recap and what's next

Taught by

Ina Saltz

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