![]() ![]() Three Grids with Instinctive Placement of 6-7 shapesĪlthough more than a few participants had said they had no visual talent, and only one admitted to some formal design training, when we put all the grids up on the wall, almost every grid layout was appealing and interesting in some way. We were going to think about how a “page” looks, irrespective of any word content and to see if it was obvious -those principles of design that according to Bringhurst cut across cultures and generations. The only direction was to place these colored shapes in some arrangement on the grid in a way that worked for the arranger. Memory in Disguiseīefore showing examples of page layouts based on grid systems, I gave each person six or seven shapes (one circle and some oddly rectangular shapes) of colored paper and one sheet of paper with a grid of nine squares. Robert Bringhurst 1 The Elements of Typographic Style, version 3.2, 2008:10. The principles that unite these different schools of design are based on the structure and scale of the human body-the eye, the hand, and the forearm in particular-and on the invisible but no less real, no less demanding and no less sensuous anatomy of the human mind. ![]() ![]() Writing systems vary, but a good page is not hard to recognize, whether it comes from Tang Dynasty China, the Egyptian New Kingdom or Renaissance Italy. ![]()
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