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by natesm 4902 days ago
Is there an edition of Grid Systems with just English for, uh, half the price? I don't think I need a copy in German as well.
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There is not. And honestly I don't think it's a must have. It's certainly a beautiful book, but you can learn most of what you need to know about grids just by Googling around. Typography is a comparatively much more complex topic, warranting the purchase of a book, and there's more to layout than grids and Swiss-German design.

If you want to buy a beautiful multi-lingual design book from that era, Emil Ruder's Typographie is the better buy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3721200438/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

The copy you get from Amazon is bilingual in German/English and it's totally worth it. The way they set the bilingual text in itself is a pretty fascinating study on grid systems.

I read this book in design school and its probably some of the best reading I've ever done. If I had to pick one book out of all of these, it'd be this one.

I wish. I can't read German either :( Some secondhand copies around, but they're still expensive. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/3721201450/ref=dp_olp...
As someone who has owned it for years, it's still one of my favourite books, but you don't need to read it for UI design, there are other references now days