The truth is there is no secret design formula known only to professional designers. Readability is accomplished through a series of small, often subtle tweaks that anyone—designer or non-designer—can make. To illustrate my point, here’s a worst case scenario (figure 1)—a page that exemplifies some of the most common layout problems. In the next few minutes […]
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Grids: Freedom “within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself”
In The Poetics of Music, Igor Stravinsky says, “…In art as in everything else, one can build only upon a resisting foundation: whatever constantly gives way to pressure, constantly renders movement impossible. My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.” Houses and […]