hi
ive had great advice re: typeface identification from this community in the past so thought id post this here.
i have decided to base my dissertation on grid structures and am in the research stages at the moment.
any recommendations of interesting books on this subject would be greatly appreciated as im not one to trust the amazon reviews
regards
If you haven’t already been through it, Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann is probably the best historical source you’ll find—a great piece of high modernism.
Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara is a decent book about Grids in practice, and has a few bits of history in there as well. Maybe not the best book research though, it’s more of a guided tour for brainstorming ideas. Still, with full color and bleeds, it’s pretty amazing that thi
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