Project 3 Grids Reading

Just a few thoughts on the reading about grid systems from Andrew Haslam's book...
This reminded me a great deal of a book that we got for Type 1 last year, which I think is simply called "Grid Systems." The reading was informative and instructional without being dull, and it provided a range of suggested grids for different types of application. I was drawn to Honnecourt's traditional 9x9 grid because of the historical nature of Garamond, and also because I like the way it looks and feels on a page. I enjoyed seeing the different methods shown for constructing grids on a page, and I actually fully carried out Honnecourt's method before I knew that Adobe InDesign could do a 9x9 grid for me automatically! It was kind of fun to go through each step and watch the page dimensions form a proportional grid. I was confused by the section on modernist grids--or, in particular, the "table of modular scales" and the "single interval sequence"... I didn't think the explanation for what I was looking at was at all clear and I wouldn't have known how to use them if I needed to. I know the Fibonacci sequence, but I couldn't see the connection. All in all though, I got what I needed to out of the reading and I think it was beneficial to starting out Project 3.