- Title
- GridAid: an online Modular Layout Grid Calculator for printed matters
- Creators
- Antonino BenincasaA Bonini
- Identifiers
- (UNIBZ)28105807
991005772180701241 - Academic Unit
- Faculty of Design and Art
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Website
- Author Names String
- Benincasa A, Bonini A
- Additional Description
- description: GridAid an online Modular Layout Grid Calculator for Editorial Designers and students in the field of Communication Design The web application GridAid closes the gap between the mathematical construction of creating a modular layout grid for printed matters and using these calculations in a layout software like Adobe InDesign® or Affinity Publisher®. In Editorial Design grids provide the structure that underpins good design. They take the guesswork out of where to place content on our page and establish rhythm and hierarchy. There are several very time-consuming aspects to working and establish with grids. To set up a layout grid designers have to establish margins and columns, defining a modular layout grid, setting up and working with a baseline grid. Sometimes, grids can be frustrating and very difficult to calculate manually. Due to the technical complexity, many communication design and students have great difficulty creating a layout grid by hand. The research project «GridAid» is aiming to take away to the designer the painstaking mathematical calculations which are on the base to create a modular layout grid. The target group of «GridAid» are Editorial and Book Designers as well as students in the broader field of Communication Design. The research project is fostering the ground on how Designers can take control of our grid and not the other way around, that the complex calculations will constraint the designer's minds. Grids impose a constraint, but they also give us flexibility if designers can control them with ease.
unibz-area: Visual Culture and its Impact on Society
ERC: Visual and performing arts, film, design
ERCCODE: SH5_4
MIURSSD: Disegno industriale
MIURSSDCODE: ICAR/13
Website
GridAid: an online Modular Layout Grid Calculator for printed matters
01/03/2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/10863/8560
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