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Grid and Column Designs
If you are looking for inspiration for grid and column design, here is a nice collection of 32 column-based websites. These sites show how grid layout can be applied on various type of sites — whether a massive content editorial site or just a personal blog. Check out how the layout can be divided into 3 columns, 4 columns, a mixture of narrow and wide columns.
Editorial Sites
First let’s check out some of the famous editorial sites. Can you imagine how these sites would be organized without a grid system due to their massive content?
- The New York Times
- National Post
- Guardian
- Times Online
- Frieze Magazine
- Wired News
- The Morning News
- Porfolio
- We Are Survival Machines
- UX Magazine
Grid in blog design
Here are some of the blogs that adapted the grid style. I have to specially mention Khoi Vinh, who played the big part in grid web design.
- AI Alex
- 5 Thirty One
- Subtraction
- Astheria
- Jeff Croft
- Hell Yeah Dude
- Jon Tangerine
- Mark Boulton Design
- The Technology Herald
- Gapers Block
Break out of the box
Column design doesn’t mean you have to be within the box. See how you can break out of the box by using images to form unsymmetrical shapes.
- UC Berkeley
- J R Velasco
- Chrizdee
- AIGA Los Angeles
Columns on eye-catchy background
Getting bored of the white background? Here are some good samples of column layout on graphical background.
- 31Three
- A Tennessee Winter
- Sundance Film Festival
- Ungarbage
Boxes and Columns
Content can also be organized into evenly distributed columns and rows.
- Kineda
- Rainfall Daffinson
- Erskine Corp
- Stuff and Non Sense
Useful Links
- Subtraction: Grid Computing… and Design
- TutorialBlog - Web Design Grid System Links
- Design Grid Systems by Mark Boulton
- Smashing Magazine - Designing with Grid-Based Approach
- Mezzoblue - Columns and Grids
- Design by Grid (gallery site)
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85 RODRIGO
July 24th, 2008 at 7:57 am
COOL MAN!
84 Fatih http://www.turkdownload.gen.tr
July 19th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Wow,great.I really liked Alex’s page.Soft,clean and useful.
Thanks for the collection.
83 Stephanie http://www.acadsa.ca
July 19th, 2008 at 1:02 am
This is great, exactly what I was looking for! The perfect amount of inspiration for putting a magazine online.
82 Min Thu http://www.flashmo.com
July 13th, 2008 at 12:33 am
This is another such a great collection of inspiring designs.
81 James Wragg http://jameswragg.com/
July 10th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Stuff & Nonsense has the sIFR headings missing. Looks a bit wierd. Nice article btw
80 vee http://www.hostmosis.net
July 4th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Wow, some of these sites are really beautiful. I really like Kineda & Ungarbage.
79 Joey http://www.leetwebmasters.com
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
Very inspiring, I love this site!
Joe - http://www.leetwebmasters.com
78 Webflo Studios http://www.webflostudios.com
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
We are always looking for new ways to tackle column and grid design, thank you for sharing with us some of your findings.
77 Kayseri Dostlar Emlak http://www.kayseridostlaremlak.com
June 28th, 2008 at 11:01 am
good
76 Jim Plaste http://www.interfacebuero.com
June 15th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Interesting and INSPIRING!