Education, Typography

Background 04.04: Grids

Jason W. Howell
January 1, 2019

Goal

This goal of this doc­u­ment is to estab­lish the con­text for cur­rent course content.

Objective

Com­plete the Back­ground Read­ing and define the Vocab­u­lary spec­i­fied below. Writ­ten, ver­bal and visual iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and uti­liza­tion is required.

Background Reading

  • Bringhurst: Chap­ter 8, p 143–178
  • Kane: Text, p 2–13; Sim­ple Orga­ni­za­tion, p 137–176

Vocabulary

  • Active Cor­ner
  • Base­line Grid
  • Cells
  • Columns
  • Fac­ing Page
  • Field
  • Folio
  • Footer
  • Fore-edge
  • Golden Sec­tion
  • Grid
  • Guides
  • Gut­ter
  • Header
  • Inter­nal Gutter
  • ISO Paper System
  • Mar­gin
  • Pas­sive Corner
  • Rows (Grid and Table)
  • Run­ning Foot
  • Sin­gle Page
  • Sink­age
  • Spine
  • Tables
  • Textblock

Bibliography

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Kane, John; A Type Primer; Pren­tice Hall; 2003. ISBN-10: 013099071X ISBN-13: 9780130990716

Kane, John; A Type Primer; Pren­tice Hall. Sec­ond Ed, 2011. ISBN # 0205066445. Dig­i­tal Ver­sion: ISBN # 9780205892709.

Koenig, Becky; Color Work­book; Pren­tice Hall, Third Edi­tion; 2009. ISBN-10: 0205656390 ISBN-13: 978–0205656394

Landa, Robin; Graphic Design Solu­tions; Del­mar Cen­gage Learn­ing; 3 edi­tion, 2005; ISBN-10: 1401881548 ISBN-13: 978–1401881542

Rob­bins, Jen­nifer Niederst, Learn­ing Web Design; O’Reilly Media, Fifth Edi­tion: 2018. ISBN # 9781491960202 DIGITAL ISBN-13: 9781491960172

San­toro, Scott W; Guide to Graphic Design; Pear­son, 1st edi­tion, 2013; ISBN-10: 0132300702 ISBN-13: 978–0132300704

Wilde, Judith and Richard; Visual Lit­er­acy; Wat­son-Gup­til pub­li­ca­tions; Paper­back edi­tion, 1991. ISBN-10: 0823056201