Section 3
Grid Systems
For centuries, whenever there has been a need to build an object, divide an area, or enhance a flat surface, some form of a grid system has been used. The grid has been relied upon as a guiding organizational and compositional principle by Renaissance artists as a method for scaling sketches and images to fit the proportion of murals, by cartographers in plotting map coordinates, by architects for scaling drawings and plotting perspective views, and by typographers in the design of letterforms and the printed page. Prior to the invention of movable type and printing in the fifteenth century by Johannes Gutenberg (German, ...
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