I don't know about the rest of you but I tend to break the grid too often to count in my designs, sometimes for the best and sometimes for the worst. I found this image and thought it was a really effective way of breaking the grid! Of course everything is array and you can't read most but all the vital points of the design you can read easily and I think that's what makes this effective. The design displays how breaking the grid can create some pretty disheveled and messy looking designs (which I'm assuming is intentional to relay the message of the design).. What do you guys think? Do you think keeping completely to a grid is more effective than straying away from it to make an original, unique piece?
The texture here is amazing, and makes me think of organic elements... like soil, air (pollution), and earthy smells! But, and as you pointed out, it seems to cross the line in terms of readability. Pulling some of the elements onto a more evident grid, in my opinion, would make this a more realistic approach for something like your final project in this class. A compromise, or combination, of strict adherence to a grid and the expressive "leaving" of a grid might be a good goal!
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