All About Grids

Grids - "a series of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines that are used to structure content for the placement of any design element"

In a way, kind of like how a puzzle looks like. Without the little hands and legs sticking out of each piece of puzzle. Or how a bingo layout looks like. Oh, oops those i suppose are examples of grids :P

During PoD class, Miss Lisa explained to us about the Grid Anatomy, Hierarchy used in them, Grid Variations and how to use grids through a slideshow.
There are a few grid variations such as rules of thirds, golden ratio, columns and baseline grid.
→ Rules of thirds is a 3x3 layout of vertical and horizontal lines. Used as a general composition rule in most/all designs

Rules of third

→ Golden ratio has a vertical line with something like a 1:3 ratio. Used for website designs

Golden ratio

→ Columns are vertical lines with space in between. Used in magazine and newspapers

Columns

→ Baseline grid is horizontal lines, like in a notebook. Used also in magazine and newspapers

Baseline grid

^ the photos are images i found off google :D
In the Hierarchy, the sizes would go in descending order as: header > sub-heading > body copy

After that, we were told to do an in-class activity using newspaper articles that we were told to bring as examples of grids.

Later, to better understand grids, we did another in-class activity: designing our own gridwork on an a4 paper- one for a magazine article and one for a poster.

♦ my 1st magazine article attempt: a disaster. :( the image and sub-header shouldn't intersect

♦ my poster gridwork. the darker lined sub-header is a correction

♦ my magazine article gridwork. much better than the 1st >_<

Then, we were given an assignment to create 2 variations of each of the grid layouts based on the golden ratio grid, columns and baseline grid. And mount it on black mounting board.