Imagine that this is what you know about me: I am a college-educated male between the ages of 35 and 45. I own a MacBook Pro and an iPhone 5, on which I browse the Internet via the Google Chrome browser. I tweet and blog publicly, where you can discover that I like chocolate and corgis.
Using a grid system seems to be one of the hottest recent 'trends' in designing logos, but in reality, grid systems have been used in print publications for centuries. Newspaper and magazines have utilised various grid systems with great effect in highlighting the most important elements of a page.