One of the lasting influences of Swiss design on contemporary graphic design is the grid. It’s only been the past year that I’ve really appreciated the use of grid for interactive design projects, and how it really brings a design together cohesively and structurally, just as it does for print.
Here’s a great book lent to me by my friend, Richard, called “Universal Principles of Design” by William Lidwell, Kritrina Holden + Jill Butler. The book covers ideas and concepts that apply to different fields of design, from graphic design, industrial design, interactive design, to architecture.
After reading through Erik Spiekermann’s book, Stop Stealing Sheep & Learn How Type Works, I found out about this really great book in its bibliography called Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type by Geoffrey Dowding. I managed to find a copy and, wow, this is one of the most useful books on [...]