History of Graphic Design Final
With the sack of Rome, the Italian Renaissance began to fade and eventually innovation in book design and printing to _______, where two brilliant graphic artists, Geoffrey Tory and Claude Garamond, created visual forms that were embraced for two hundred years.
France
In the 1980's, _____________ was one of the first graphic designers to make use of the powerful personal computer
Grieman
An unofficial category describing contemporary graphic design that appears in a holistic sense to be unpolished and scruffy
Grunge
The magnificent Latin Psalter published by ______________ and ____________ on August 14, 1457, was the first book to bear a printer's trademark and imprint, printed date of publication, and colophon
Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer
Ideograph
symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases
Around 1450, Johann Gutenberg was the first to bring together the complex systems and subsystems necessary to print a typographic book, including a thick, tacky ink that could be smoothly applied and did not run off the mental type; a strong, sturdy press; and a metal alloy that was soft enough to cast yet hard enough to hold up for thousands of impressions. But the key to his invention was the ____ ____ used for casting the individual letters
type mold
Postmodernism represents a break with that which is ___________-
"modern"
When was the "Golden Age of Logos"?
1960s
1940-1970
Art Deco
1880-1914
Art Nouveau
1919-1933
BauHaus
The connecting curves that unify a serif with the main stroke of a letter
Bracketin
Charlemagne mandated reform by royal edict in A.D. 789 and succeeded in reforming the alphabet with the use of four guidelines, ascenders, and descenders. The resulting uniform script, called ___________ ________, is the forerunner of our contemporary lowercase alphabet
Caroline miniscules
The Art Deco Style is sometimes referred to by scholars as _______________?
Commercial Modern
The enormously influential ___________________ held in Weimar Germany in 1922 represents the most important collaboration between De Stijl, Dada and Constructivist artist
Constructivist Congress
1910-1930
De Stijl
A strategy whereby designers reference styles from the past
Historicism
Who was the celebrated or notorious caricaturists that created thousands of lithographs for three newspapers during the Industrial Age?
Honore Daumier
1950-1980
Internations Typography or Style
Governments rallied support for the First World War from citizens by publishing posters. In England, the poster underwent a rapid stylistic change, and one of the following sets of characteristics were rejected:
Japonisme, abstractions, and indirect reference to subject matter
Where is this cave painting from?
Lascaux, Cave France
_________________, was one of the first dependable venues where modernist designers could find work
London Underground
__________________ spread word of the Protestant movement thought Europe quickly due to the innovations in typography and printing
Martin Luther's "Ninety-Five Theses"
1925-1950
Modern American Design
Published in German and Latin version in 1943, this six-hundred-page book was an ambitious history of the world from the biblical dawn of creation until 1493. The book contained 1,809 woodcut illustrations in its complex, carefully designed, 18-by-12 inch pages and is considered one the masterpieces of graphic design from this periods - _______________________
Nuremberg Chronicle
1900-1930
Pictorial Modernism & Sachplakat
1955-1980
Pop Art
2. 1970-200
Post Modernism
_______ ________ is the process of removing the negative spaces surrounding an image and them inking the raised surface, which is rubbed onto paper
Relief printing
Which magazine did Norman Rockwell primarily illustrate for?
Saturday Evening Post
In 1639, ________________, a British locksmith and his son, designed and printed the first book in the English American colonies, The Whole Booke of Psalms (now called The Bay Psalm Book)
Stephen and Matthew Daye
1. 1970-2000
Street Art & Graffiti
Name of civilization that is credited with the invention of writing
Sumerians
1920-1950
Swiss Style
Who was the first art director of the Fortune magazine (1880-1964)?
T. M. Cleland
What was adopted by the ancient Greeks and spread throughout their city sates around 1000 B.C.
The Phoenician Alphabet
T or F The word "Dada" is essentialy meaningless, and an iron comment on what this group of artists say as a lack of human reason in the gruesome First World War
True
________, the center of commerce and Europe's gateway to trade with the eastern Mediterranean nations, Indian, and the Orient, led the way in Italian typographic book design
Venice
Art Nouveau was a design reform movement which developed during which age?
Victorian
Who coined the term "graphic designer" in 1922 to summarize his work?
Wilham Addison Dwiggins
Which of the following characteristics is NOT typical of Futurism?
a precise and technical ordering of information
Petroglyph
a rock carving
What is Codex
an ancient manuscript text in book form.
A single leaf of paper printed on both sides is frequently called a ____________
broadsheet
The ______ of a manuscript of book is an inscription, usually at the end, containing facts about its production
colophon
The _____ was the production letterer who spent his days bent over a writing table penning page after page in a trained lettering style
copisti
At the same time (and in the same area of Europe) that Johann Gutenberg invented moveable type, an unidentifiable artist called the Master of the Playing Cards created the earliest known _________ __________
copperplate engravings
Handmade model layouts and manuscript texts, such as the Latin version created for the Nuremberg Chronicle by Michael Wolgemuth and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, were used as guides for the woodcut illustrations, typesetting, page design, and makeup of books. These __________ provide rare insights into he design and production process during the fifteenth century
exemplars
In the early scriptorium, the _______ was responsible of the execution of ornament of image in visual support of the text
illuminator
Books printed from Gutenberg's invention of typography until the end of the fifteenth century are referred as _______ texts, a Latin words that means "cradle" or "rebirth"
incunabula
The Chinese calligraphic writing system consists of _________, graphic signs that represent an entire word
logograms
China became the first society in which ordinary people were in daily contact with printed images. In addition to blocks prints or religious images and texts, paper _____ began to be designed and printed around A.D. 1000 due to an iron shortage
money
The Phoenician alphabet was adopted by the ancient Greeks and spread through their city-states around 1000 B.C. The Greeks changed five consonants to vowels and, most importantly, they modified the Phoenician characters by making them _____________
more geometrically structured
Around A.D. 1045, the Chinese alchemist Pi Sheng extended this process by developing the concept of _________ ____, and innovative printing process that was never widely used in Asia because the sheer number of characters made the process too tedious
moveable type
Sachplakat means roughly ________
object poster
The ________ was one of the most influential types of nineteenth-century publication
pictorial newspaper
Pictograph
symbol that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance
Members of the Ring as well as faculty of the Bauhaus all the faced the same problem:
reconciling left-wing political ideology with the service of clients from the capitalist countries of Europe
At the time of the Bauhaus's founding, the institution was forced to confront the dispute in Germany over the relative merits of ___________ versus Roman lettering
sans-serif
Production of illuminated manuscripts in the scriptorium, or writing room, included the head of the scriptorium, called the _____, a well-educated scholar who understood Greek and Latin functioned as both an editor and art director
scrittori
Early visual language systems were complex and required knowledge of hundred of signs and symbols, whereas an alphabet, a set of visual symbols or characters that represent the elementary _______ of a spoken language, require only twenty or thirty easily learned signs
sounds
A __________ is a word, phrase, symbol, or design- or a combination of words, phrases, symbols, or designs- that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods and services of one party from those of others
trademark
In 1925 Nagy coined the term __________ and slayed out a set of aesthetic principles that would govern integration of typography and photography in graphic work
typophoto
In paper making, a translucent emblem, or ________, can be produced by pressure from a raised design on a mold. It is visible when a sheet of paper is held up to light.
watermark