By drawing layout grids by hand — outside InDesign’s logic — I opened space for irregularities, for structures I wouldn’t have designed through software. The looseness invited intuition. When the grid stays visible, it shifts from invisible framework to visual element: transparency as a kind of hacking. But the grid still organizes. Maybe real hacking would mean: shifting the grids purpose from an element that creates order to one that creates chaos.
What | Layout/Grid |
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Sources | Text: Experiment 00, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution; Steven Levy (via Project Guttenberg) |
Tools | Paper, Pen, Ruler, InDesign |
Steps | 1. Draw Grids by hand; 2. Scan 4. Import to InDesign, Layout |
Output | Layout |


