num_pages: 160
description: Typographic organization has always been a complex system in that there are so many elements at play such as hierarchy order of reading legibility and contrast. In Typographic Systems  Kim Elam author of our bestselling books Geometry of Design and Grid Systems  explores eight major structural frameworks beyond the gridincluding random radial modular and bilateralsystems. By taking the reader through exercises student work and professional examples Elam offers a broad range of design solutions. Once essential visual organization systems are understood the designer can fluidly organize words or images within a structure combination of structures or a variation of a structure. With clarity and substance each systemfrom the structured axis to the nonhierarchical radial arrayis explained and explored so that the reader comes away with a better understanding of these intricate complex arrangements. Typographic Systems is the seventh title in our bestselling Design Briefs series which has sold more than 100000 copies worldwide.
language: English
title: Typographic Systems of Design: Frameworks for Type Beyond the Grid
publisher: Princeton Architectural Press