gridless.design A Website by Donnie D'Amato gridless.design get rid of the grid Blasphemy, I need structure and order!" The web is good at these things, just not in the ways that designers have been accustomed to working. We'll take a look at how we got here and how we might change our perspective. Let's think outside of the grid and allow other guidelines to provide a comprehensive layout. We are the ones who paved the pathSentences and words do not exist by themselvesChanging Our Development Mindset wwwinterfaces
What the material wants to be Part of how Lou Kahn made things be good was to ask the material what it wanted to do and be. He asked brick what it liked, and would get a different answer depending on the context for the building. In Dacca, the capital of Bangladesh, brick said it liked an arch. For the Korman House in Philadelphia, brick said it liked two giant fireplaces with a lintel between them for a doorway beneath and a balcony above. Dan Klyn, What Good Means The material finds the right objectWe are working against the grain of the woodThe joy of the humble brick material