Final Review - History of Graphic Design

Gunter Rambow’s designs consist of stylized illustrations of heavy outlining and flat color.

Saul Bass’s redesign of the Bell Telephone System trademark increased public recognition

When the Bauhaus opened in 1919, ________ was the first director.

Dada writers and artists were concerned with shock, protest, and nonsense.

________ was considered the founder and guiding spirit of the de Stijl

The following were influences on Art Deco. Which one does NOT belong?

__ cultivated “infantilism” by borrowing the spontaneous/naïve techniques of children’s art.

George Giusti had an ability to reduce forms to a minimal essence making them iconic/symbolic

The book covers designed by Rudolph de Harak for McGraw-Hill Publishers had this in common

The Vienna Secession formed in 1897 when a group of young Viennese artists________.

Die Brücke and Der Blue Reiter were two subgroups of the surrealist movement

The periodical Ver Sacrum (1898–1903) was innovative primarily because ________.

___ developed his mechano-faktura theory, which abolished any illusion of being 3-dimensional.

The Glasgow School refers to ________ in Scotland.

Designers who initiated the International Typographic Style held all but one of the ideas below

The Grapus Studio was formed in 1970 to create designs for ________.

Match the name of the designer with the name of the typeface .... Futura

Roots of the International Typographic Style include futurism and Dada.

European pictorial modernism focused on the total integration of ________.

The Bauhaus closed in 1933 because ________.

____ was the goal, and ____ was the preferred typeface in designs from the Unimark design firm

Painter Gustav Klimt was a leader in the Vienna Secession’s formation.

created work after WWII w/ simple shapes that communicated invisible processes/physical forces.

combines unexpected wit with regional iconography in pieces like his Knoll “Hot Seat” poster.

Herb Lubalin experimented with form and meaning of alphabetic characters in (Mother and Child)

had been the cultural and artistic center of the Western world until the mid-20th century.

is among the earliest Western-trained modern designers to be practicing in Hong Kong

Cipe Pineles, art director for Glamour, Seventeen, and Mademoiselle, became the first woman

Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made sculptures were humorous, but their underlying purpose was to

wrote and designed the book "Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design"

Poster mania (peaked in the early 1970s) continued on university campuses in the U.S. because

On the April 1968 issue cover of Esquire, George Lois showed Muhammed Ali

Peter Behrens’s architectural and graphic designs, in 1904, evolved toward forms based on

Match the name of the designer with the name of the typeface .... Times New Roman

Supergraphics are designs incorporating all but one of the elements below

The Duffy Design Group demonstrated the effectiveness of graphic design in its label for

_____________, is universally considered the father of Iranian graphic design.

Wild Plakken began its career using interpretable open texts

The three characteristic elements of Plakatstil are below. Which does NOT belong?

In his book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf, _____________ frequently uses vintage images

The International Typographic Style was a precursor to corporate design.

In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote that visual propaganda should appeal to __members of society

Postwar Dutch design reflected two strong currents: pragmatic constructivism and

Typophotography (photo negatives to set type) was exploited by Herb Lubalin in his typograms

Bezier splines are arcs of uniform curves, used to generate outlines of type characters

El Lissitzsky’s PROUNS were pictorial expressions of ________.

The Beggerstaffs used cut-up photographs to create their graphic work

The three main principles of constructivism were tectonics, texture, and construction

Plakatstil incorporated decorative streamlining, zigzag, and geometry into its designs

Detractors from the International Typographic Style believe that the style is too formulaic

The design system for the Nineteenth Olympiad in Mexico City resulted from research on ___

Eric Gill advanced the concept of unequal line lengths (ragged right) in text type

In the early 1990s, ________ (self-published magazines) began appearing in magazine racks.

John Berg created outstanding designs for

Match the name of the designer with the name of the typeface .... Leitchte Kabel

Television in the late 1960s competed with magazines for their advertising revenue.

Programmed visual identification systems of the 60s resulted from the visual identity movement

The Düsseldorf School of Arts and Crafts banished the grid from use by its students.

After WWII, the US converted industry from wartime needs to consumer markets

The finest contemporary Japanese graphic design subordinates concept to aesthetics

______’s work is often assembled of intentionally provocative images in unfinished montages.

Match the name of the designer with the name of the typeface...Universal Alphabet

In their manifesto, futurists proclaimed their enthusiasm for all but one of the following

Edward McKnight Kauffer’s 1940 poster, “We Fight For the Liberty of All,” was commissioned for

Isotype concept by Otto Neurath involves the use of __to convey complex statistical information

Herbert Matter pioneered extreme shifts in scale using photographic images in poster designs

art director at Harper’s Bazaar who used white space and sought “a musical feeling”

refers to artistic and technical expression characteristic of a locale or historical period.

Paul Brainerd coined the term desktop publishing for the new method of creating page layouts

Louise Fili is best known for her vernacular-inspired designs for record albums in the late 70s

logo changed the face, idea, speed of graphic design and anticipated motion graphics