GRID SYSTEMS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
Josef Muller-Brockmann

Josef Muller-Brockmann: GRID SYSTEMS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN ( Raster Systeme fur Die Visuelle Gestaltung). NYC: Hastings House, 1981. First English edition. Text in English and German. A fine hardcover book in a near-fine dust jacket that shows a few trivial scratches to the orange-inked covers. Former owners name written in small block letters along bottom page edge. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.

8.5 x 12 hardcover book with 176 pages and 357 b/w examples of the grid in action. With examples on how to work correctly at a conceptual level and exact instructions for using all of the systems (8 to 32 fields), this guidebook provides a crystal-clear framework for problem-solving. The definitive word on using grid systems in graphic design.

The ideals of clarity and precision in graphic design as achieved through order and organization were promulgated in the early 20th-century by such figures as Théo van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, and Herbert Bayer. This new emphasis on functionalism and systematically ordered typography achieved its fruition in Switzerland in the 1930s and continued to develop through the 1960s. Centered around two schools in Zurich and Basel, this design movement became known as the Swiss Graphic Arts School. A major player in the development of this style since the 1930s, Josef Mueller-Brockmann is internationally renowned for designs with clean, crisp lines based on the orderliness of the grid system.

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