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Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Preface

June 26, 2005

Following my article in Design in Flight I've received countless emails to elaborate, in some way, on how to correctly design grid systems. It's quite a complicated field and so distilling it into 'Five Simple Steps' has proven to be quite tricky, so much so that I thought I needed to write some sort of preface before we get on to the first part.

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Supernice
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Freelance Design Interview
Interview with yours truly over at Sitepoint on going freelance and setting up your own little studio.
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iA document some of their process on one of Switzerland's most ambitious news projects to date. Very interesting read.
dConstruct 2008
dConstruct 2008 tickets are on sale now. if Designing for the Social Web is your thing, what are you waiting for?
this is a working library
Wonderfully restrained typography. Via SVN.
Skateboarding in the Seventies
Some beautiful portrait photography of Californian skateboarders in the 1970s
The Free iPhone 3G on O2
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A picture of Mark BoultonI'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.

I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.

If you're after simple, clean and effective web design; let me know.