Working in the Grid

Ok here is the idea of the 9 box grid. With this concept you can create all kinds of layouts. here I run through ten in just a minute. Click on the picture to the right to see what I mean.

In the animation you see 10 different designs that quickly came to mind using this grid. I was just having coffee with the Artistic Director of Big Fig Design (http://web.mac.com/bigfigdesign/) and we were talking about how all design is based on this grid.

Look around you right now. Is there a news paper, a magazine, an advertisement, a product package, anything. now look close, squint your eyes. can't you make out the grid? Look close almost every good design is based on a grid...

Now let me be perfectly clear "Almost" does not mean "Every". Not Every good design is based on a grid. Just most of them. Look in your favorite scrapbook magazine and see if all of your favorite designs in that issue use a grid of some kind to layout all the elements.

Next... What do you do with the grid?