I think web designers could stand to study actual grid based graphic design and see how that applies to our current capabilities on the web. As for layout frameworks, I tried to learn them, but as far as I could tell they simply made bad/half assed design faster and easier. For a laughable amount of time they assumed you were building a desktop size column-based layout that was supposed to shrink, and anything differ…
> actual grid based graphic design Got any suggestions on where to start? I could Google, but I wouldn't know if what I found was "actual" grid based graphic design. I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm sincerely interested in non-web-based graphic design resources.
Yes! The elements of Typographic Style is more Type oriented, likewise with Ellen Lupton's books. Grid Based Graphic Design by Müeller Brockmann is the one you want for grids specifically, and anything Swiss in general is probably fine.