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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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116 Stefan http://www.domainhandelnews.com
February 26th, 2010 at 4:54 am
Very nice collection. This is very inspiring for new projects.
115 Aditya Dipankar http://www.pixelguy.in
January 7th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Utterly useful stuff. Specially for those beginning to getting introduced to grids in web/graphic design.
114 vincentdresses http://www.hibridal.com
January 5th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
The designs showed here show what simple and tasteful design is all about. Another one to consider
113 Mike http://www.comastore.com
October 31st, 2009 at 4:48 am
Great, Great, Great collection of Grid and Column designs. Definitely i shall follow your resources.
112 rx-1 http://www.rx1zayiflama.gen.tr
October 17th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Definitely i shall follow your resources.
111 Dieter http://www.krawikett.de
October 16th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Thx for the showcases of grid systems, it really helps me in future.
110 bagsin http://handbagsurf.com
September 10th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Can you tell me how to control grid
109 Fashoo http://fashionow.net
September 4th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
This has made me think about re designing our site!
108 Nisha http://www.sblinfo.com
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 am
Good sites
107 good
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Nisha
(www.sblinfo.com)