GD 1 Quiz Questions
Introduction
Q: According to the Matthew Carter presentation, who said “accuracy was not the truth?
A: Henri Matisse
Q: What is readability defined as:
A: the adequacy of an object to attract readers
Q: According to Aaron Burns, what is the 4th form of communication?
A: Print
Q: Why is the author, Oberto Eco, quoted for William Randolph Heart’s castle in San Simeon?
A: Less is often more
Q: How do you make a design a reader magnet?
A: Insert readability and simplicity
Q: According to the Intro, the meaning of the message can be conveyed through:
A: Substituting form, physical form, emptiness (all of the above)
Q: When processing the contents of the visual message the human mind?
A: The human mind attempts to group and simplify the overall message
Q: Image captions should be formatted so they serve to do what?
A: Attract attention to the image to further explain the story
Q: According to Xerox Publishing Standards, their principle goals of page layout are:
A: Visual recognition and legibility
Q: What is the disorder associated with designing?
A: Horror vacui
Q: What 3 questions should a designer ask himself?
A:
- What are the elements I have to work with?
- Where do these elements go?
- What structure is necessary so they go together?
Which methodology suites us when we design?
A: Less is often more.
Q: True/False: We search for the unique relative unusualness
A: True
Checklist
Q: According to the designer’s checklist has all clutter an affect been eliminated?
A: Yes
Q: According to the checklist, should the reader be aware of the fact of reading?
A: No
Q: Which would be your strongest choice
A: logo: distinctive and not set type
Q: What is not an identity signal that should be used consistently for a magazine’s structure?
A: Headlines
Q: When looking at effective design the reader should be unaware of what?
A: Reading
Q: What 2 attributes directly affect elegance?
A: Function and duplicity
Q: What four elements make up the designers checklist?
A: Space, type, unity and page architecture.
Q: Why are most of the answers to the questions no?
A: …
Q: Does this color red help the word blood?
A: Yes.
Q: Is the type in this piece as large & legitable as possible?
A: No.
Q: Can negative space be positive space?
A: Yes.
Q: Design unity can be enhanced by limiting type and …
A: Color palettes
Gallery Questions
Who said: “Art upsets, science reassures?”
A: George Braque
What were George Grosz’s major successes in the 1920’s?
A: Ecce homo and Spiesser-Spiegel
Q: what 2 well known magazines did Grosz work as an illustrator?
A: Vanity Fair and Esquire
Q: Which was not a tent community at the Dome Colony X installation?
A: Apiary
Q: Why did critics say that Grosz’s work lost his audacity when he went to the US?
A: he stopped creating work with a political background.
Q: Grosz found joy in which city?
A: New York City
Q: What was the name of the group of works (Installation Exhibition) depicting post-nuclear creatures without bodies?
A: The Stickmen
Q: Which state are the Saint Gabriel Mountains?
A: California
Q: Where did Grosz teach?
A: Art Student League
Q: George Grosz’s artwork of dune landscapes in Cape Cod are characterized by what?
A: obvious eroticism
Q: What does Cacophonous mean?
A: Harsh and unpleasantly sound.
Q: Which interpretation for this painting fits the visual scene?
A: George Grosz’s parents own a bar
Chapter 1 Questions
Q: What are the three types of figure ground relationships?
A:
- Stable
- Reversible
- Ambiguous
Q: Space adds quality
A: True.
Q: Asymmetry suggests…
A: Motion and activity
Q: What is considered an ambiguous space?
A: When background and foreground interact
Q: Space is what?
A: context
Q: Seeing potential emptiness
A: requires a shift of thinking
Q: Bleed is defined as imagery or letterforms that run off the rimes edge of a page, whereas full bleed is:
A: Imagery or letterforms that run off all four edges of a page.
Q: What does the term visual noise imply?
A: result of too many design elements
Q: Which of the following words refers to emptiness that “still has unrealized potential?
A: Leftover Space
Glossary questions
Q: Information placed at the end of the book that describes its production is the definition of a _______
A: Colophon
Q: The four methods of binding are edition binding, mechanical binding, saddle-stitched binding and __________
A: Perfect binding
Q: What famous magazine utilized the centerfold?
A: Playboy
Q: Give 2 examples of lower case letters with ascenders
A: d, k, h, k, f
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