Design Issues. Volume 40, Issue 2

This Design Issues cover design meditates on the use of the grid throughout the history of design. In design, the grid has always set both the meter and the rhythm for the delivery of ideas. From the Golden Ratio, to the "Rule of Thirds," to modular and hierarchical structures of the International Typographic Style, to 960px grids that map to CSS libraries, the grid is an evergreen element of the discipline.

Iterations and Sketches

Final Design

Previous designers that have created covers for Design Issues are among some of the top designers in the world: Louise Fili, Michael Beirut, Massimo Vignelli, Paula Scher, and Milton Glaser (left to right), as wells as my former mentor who passed in 2015, Robert Sedlack.