- I'm Ina Saltz, and I'd like to welcome you to
Foundations of Typography: Working with Grids.
- There are a number of lynda.com courses which
show you how to create grids.
This course is about why you should use grids
and how they can work for you to make your print
and screen-based projects work well.
In this course, I'll show you plenty of examples
and point out how and why typographic grids are
the designer's best friend.
Grids are great!
A good flexible grid will organize your visual thinking
and streamline your design process.
Grids give you a starting point, a structure to build upon.
Grids are like a skeleton whose
bones give your project strength
and which keep everything in its place.
Most important, grids free you up from
getting disctracted by nitty gritty design decisions
and let you focus on the big picture.
I'll explain how and why they work the way they do
so that you can take that knowledge
and apply it to your own projects.
And I'll also show you some great examples of
breaking out of the grid.
I'll explain how violating the grid can
work to make your projects more exciting and dynamic.
You're in good hands.
I'm passionate about the deep
and wonderful world of typography.
I'm excited to share with you
Foundations of Typography: Working with Grids.
So lets get started.