What is grid ?
Grid is a structure made up of vertical and horizontal lines which is used as a guide line for lay-outing. Designers need grid system as a referencing lines for making their designs more aligned, focused and beautiful for the viewers. A good design will be always the combination of both grid system and lay-outing.
Combination of number of vertical and horizontal lines make column. One column of a grid system in a work space is called a unit.
What
is layout?
Layout
is the sizing, spacing and aligning of contents in a particular work
space. Designers composite and layout a design using grids.
Why
designer need grid system ?
We
need grid design because we do not know what a better solution to our design.
Sometime like our newspaper need formal grid to print , then will show clear
information to visitor .
Where
grid is used ?
Grid
is used on Wed base , Print base and Time base .
Wed
base and time base are belong to online section . Print base is belong to
offline section . For example : online section maybe likes tv , movie , phone ,
web , tablet are all of screen . Offline are magazine , newspaper , book ,
poster and t-shirt .
Grid
system in web design
Grid
system in print design
Layout
dependent on the grid about advantage and disadvantage
Advantage
Makes
design simple and predictable to navigate
Helps
to create good focus points
Viewers
can grab the entire content in a design more faster.
Will
be systematic
Disadvantage
Following
grid and its rules always result in a common design style .
Designer
cant explore there ideas out of box .
Reference
image
Sketches
and Development
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