Industrial Design Test 2
A colorful, mass-produced, plastic-based, emotionally engaging consumer product with a curvilinear, flowing shape.
Blobject
A way of using design as a medium to challenge narrow assumptions, preconceptions, and givens about the role products play in everyday life.
Critical Design
The by-product of adaptability plus acceleration, the ability to negotiate change and innovation without letting them interfere with one's own rhythms and goals.
Elasticity
1950's Modern Organic Design was fueled by advances in computer-aided design and advances in anthropometric data.
False
The Werkbund tried to bring together artists and industrialists. Henry van de Velde argued for standards and unification of taste, while Mermann Muthesius argued for individual artistic expression.
False
Productive tinkering.
Thinkering
Alvar Aalto, and other Modern Organic designers, rejected industrial materials such as tubular steel in favor of wood and bent plywood.
True
By subtracting history from design and replacing it with timeless universal principles, Modernism was intended to create forms that spoke to everyone.
True
In organic design, the idea of gestamtkunstwork applied not only to the interior & exterior of a building, but also how the building itself connected with its surrounding environment.
True
In the Bauhaus, classes were co-taught be two instructors: an artist (master of form) and a craftsman (master of technique).
True
Modern Art, like Modern Design, rejected past styles and emphasized the social role of art.
True
Modernist designers felt nineteenth-century architecture and design was usually either oppressively bound to past styles or annoyingly picturesque and eclectic.
True
The Bauhaus began by merging the provincial art school with the school of arts and crafts, seeking to abolish the distinction between pure and applied art.
True
Walter Gropius, Henry van de Velde, and Peter Brehens were all involved in the Deutsche Werkbund.
True
While organic is often associated with natural materials, it is often plastics that are best suited to expressing the abstract biomorphic forms of nature.
True
Which movement was named after the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris in 1925? a. Art Deco b. Art Nouveau c. Deutsche Werkbund d. Arts & Crafts
a. Art Deco
Which movement sought to depict the speed, dynamic movement, and simultaneous sensations of modern life? a. Futurism b. Purism c. Constructivism d. Cubism e. De Stijl
a. Futurism
Which of these designers taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina after leaving the Bauhaus? a. Josef Albers b. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe c. Marianne Brandt d. Buckminster Fuller
a. Josef Albers
Who designed the Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau? a. Le Corbusier b. Walter Gropius c. Gerrit Rietveld d. Vladimir Tatlin e. Henry van de Velde
a. Le Corbusier
Who founded the Bauhaus and was the first director of the school? a. Walter Gropius b. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy c. Mies van der Rohe d. Le Corbusier
a. Walter Gropius
These four designers were associated with which design group/movement: Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hannes Meyer? a. Deutscher Werkbund b. Bauhaus c. Ulm Academy d. Art Deco
b. Bauhaus
Which movement was created in response to widely held worries that Germany's rapid industrialization and modernization were coming at the cost of its national culture? a. Art Nouveau b. Deutsche Werkbund c. Arts & Crafts d. Art Deco
b. Deutsche Werkbund
Who designed this masterpiece of Organic Architecture (The TWA Terminal at JFK)? a. Charles & Ray Eames b. Eero Saarinen c. Alvar Aalto d. Ross Lovegrove
b. Eero Saarinen
Who curated the Organic Design in Home Furnishings exhibit at the MOMA in 1941? a. Charles & Ray Eames b. Eliot Noyes c. Eero Saarinen d. Tapio Wirkkala
b. Eliot Noyes
Who designed the Schroder House? a. Walter Gropius b. Gerrit Rietveld c. Henry van de Velde d. Vladimir Tatlin e. Le Corbusier
b. Gerry Rietveld
Who came up with the phrase, "Less is More"? a. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy b. Mies van der Rohe c. Le Corbusier d. Walter Gropius
b. Mies van der Rohe
Which movement developed the idea of a designer as an 'artist-engineer'? a. Cubism b. De Stijl c. Constructivism d. Purism e. Futurism
c. Constructivism
Who is considered the first Industrial Designer? a. Marcel Breuer b. Charles Eames c. Peter Brehens d. Raymond Loewy e. Dieter Rams
c. Peter Brehens
Who is considered the 'father' of American Design, whose success was due to his belief that industrial design was about advertising and selling, not 'truth to materials' and honest functions? a. Dieter Rams b. Marcel Breuer c. Raymond Loewy d. Peter Brehens e. Charles Eames
c. Raymond Loewy
Which movement sought to compose the conflicting elements of line, plane, and color into an image of equilibrium, as a symbol of the universal harmony of life? a. Constructivism b. Cubism c. Futurism d. De Stijl e. Purism
d. De Stijl
Which movement developed the concept of a house as 'a machine for living in'? a. De Stijl b. Futurism c. Cubism d. Purism
d. Purism
Post WWII, how was design practiced in Italy?
improvisational
Post WWII, how was design practiced differently in these areas?
market-led or sales-based
Post WWII, how was design practiced in Germany?
theoretical
