Named for Piet Mondrian, the mondrian grid layout is based on his approach to paintings. If you are not an artist yourself you may have seen his works, and just not known whose they were. They are grid based painting of white, with usually black lines. see below for an example. Piet’s work not only inspired layouts for graphic designers, but many other things as you can see below. A lot of today’s more simplistic yet beautiful artists work off of his theories and ideas. It is the simplistic view of the overall grid design that makes his work so versatile.
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