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• Research and Content Audits due today, 10.29!
• Grids and Layouts and Columns, Oh My!

• Layout Techniques
• Golden Ratio Calculator
• Nathan Smith 960 Grid System

Reading: On Grids and Design:

Two short articles about grids from Mark Boulton

• Why use a grid?
• Design and the Divine Proportion

Five simple steps to designing grid systems

Another series of articles on grids by Mark Boulton. You can download the entire series in pdf format. Please skip part 5.

• Five simple steps to designing grid systems — Part 1
• Five simple steps to designing grid systems — Part 2
• Five simple steps to designing grid systems — Part 3
• Five simple steps to designing grid systems — Part 4

Grids Are Good

Below are the slides from a workshop given at South by Southwest by designers Khoi Vinh and Mark Boulton. They work through the steps taken to create a grid and website design for the fiction website Yeeaahh!, which bears a strong resemblance to a certain other popular website.

• Grids are good (the slides)
• A blog post about the project

Design View: Quiet Structure

• Quiet Structure

Week to Week Broad Strokes

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• Class 1 — 9/10
• Class 2 — 9/17
• Class 3 — 9/24
• Class 4 — 10/1
• Class 5 — 10/15
• Class 6 — 10/22
• Class 7 — 10/29
• Class 8 — 11/5
• Class 9 — 11/19
• Class 10 — 11/26
• Class 11 — 12/3

Projects

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• midterm
• final