Feb 20
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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16 Dejan Cancarevic http://www.stylizedweb.com
February 20th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
here is another good example http://www.3kolone.org/
15 giackop http://www.giackop.com
February 20th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
very good thanks for sharing..
14 SE7EN http://www.se7enize.com
February 20th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Del.icio.us list! I always want to read something like this.
13 bweb http://www.nyczaj.eu
February 20th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Guess that you spent a lot of time prepairing this stuff soo big thanks! Nice collection.
12 Dylan B. http://www.dylanbathurst.com
February 20th, 2008 at 10:49 am
A lot of sites use the grid for layout, but I dislike when they don’t hold the grid structure up into the header. The content body is nice and structured but the header falls apart and everything is just put where ever it will fit. Khoi over at subtraction.com does a really great job of keeping the grid structure through the header, and I believe it makes the site design. oh and BTW Jeff Croft redesigned his site a couple days ago.
Great Post.
11 claireinvisable http://afew
February 20th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Thank you for this, I am always trying to compare grid and box structures for websites, gives a great overview.
Thanks!
10 maize http://www.maize.de
February 20th, 2008 at 10:36 am
thanks for this grid collection.
the structure of the editorial site would be very helpfull for my next work
9 Davey http://taids.com/
February 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Damn, Nick. How do you manage to do that? I’ve been looking for some inspirational multi-columnar layouts recently, and BAM, you’ve just posted a load. Nice one.
8 Ramon http://www.ramonstoppelenburg.com
February 20th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Good collection of great examples. Thanks!
7 naran_ho http://www.naran-ho.com
February 20th, 2008 at 8:41 am
mmmmm, interesting, the old layout in a modern media,,,,mmmmm