ADS 401: Quizzes
The First Earth Day was celebrated on April 22 of what year?
1970
Design for the Real World was first published in the U.S. in _____.
1971
In Our Kleenex Culture, Papanek says that it takes about _____ acres of Canadian timber to print one Sunday's The New York Times.
850
Who said 'Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.'
Aristotle
What historic event happened on the KU campus on April 20, 1970?
KU Union was set on fire
In the book 'The Prince' which author stated that 'the end justifies the means'?
Machiavelli
According to Marshall McLuhan, 'The Medium is the _____.'
Message
Two films which reflected America's view of the Cold War were _____.
Red Dawn (1984) & Rocky IV (1985)
Who is considered the father of Western Philosophy?
Socrates
An example of plagiarism, presented in class, was Harper's Bazaar magazine's copying of the graphic design from what book?
Tim Walker's book 'Storyteller'
Who was Marshall McLuhan?
a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual whose work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory
According to Alice Twemlow, Papanek's Design for the Real World has become _____.
a bible of sorts for those seeking social change through design.
Ethics or moral philosophy is _____.
a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
What was Drop City?
a counterculture artists' community setup by former KU students in southern Colorado
A code of ethics is _____.
a guide of principles designed to help professionals conduct business honestly and with integrity.
Fast Fashion is a term used to describe _____.
a highly profitable and exploitative business model based on replicating catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, and mass-producing them at low cost.
What is a thought experiment?
a hypothetical situation in which a principle is laid out for the purpose of thinking through its consequences
Victor Papanek said "Design is the conscious effort to impose _____."
a meaningful order.
'VJ Day a Times Square, New York, NY, 1945' by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt shows _____.
a sailor kissing a nurse (who he doesn't know) in celebration of the end of World War II.
What is a dilemma?
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives.
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) is story about _____.
a smart but sensible new graduate who lands a job as an assistant to the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.
Who was R. Buckminster Fuller?
an American architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. He coined or popularized such terms as 'Spaceship Earth' & 'Dymaxion'.
Who was Victor Papanek?
an Austrian-born American designer and educator, who became a strong advocate of socially and ecologically responsible design
Experimental Jetset's t-shirt with the names 'John & Paul & Ringo & George' was originally designed as _____.
an abstracted band concert shirt
Hippocratic Oath, historically taken by physicians, states that doctors should _____.
do no harm.
According to Papanek, The American automobile is the most _____ since the invention of the machine gun.
efficient killing device
The Finnish word kymmenykset refers to _____.
giving back 10% of your time or money to help others.
According to Papanek, There are profession more harmful than _____ but only a very few.
industrial design
Victor Papanek also said "There are professions more harmful than _____, but only a few."
industrial design
According to Dieter Rams, 'good design' is _____.
innovative unobtrusive honest environmentally friendly
According to Papanek, The designer's social and moral judgment must be brought into play _____.
long before they begin to design.
What historic event happened at Kent State University (Ohio) on May 4, 1970?
members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of ant-war demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine students
Papanek writes about designing ways to aid in local manufacturing. What manufactured products does he mention?
mud bricks, water pipes, and televisions
The Vessel building in New York City has been closed because of _____.
suicides
'Ticking Time Bomb Scenario' and 'The Trolley Problem' are examples of _____.
Thought Experiments
In the film Lord of War (2005) Nicolas Cage describes the design beauty of what object?
AK-47
Mikhail Kalashnikov is famous for designing what object?
AK-47 assault rifle
Which book is Victor Papanek best known for?
Design for the Real World
Which famous American architect/designer had an early influence on Victor Papanek's view on how design impacts Nature?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Rene Descartes is famous for which phrase?
I think therefore I am.
The poor (bad) design of the 2000 Florida Butterfly Ballot may have influenced the outcome of what event?
The 2000 United States presidential election
The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a major event of _____.
The Cold War
Major events of The Cold War include:
The Space Race (1955-1975) The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky - World Chess Championship (1972) U.S. Olympic Hockey Victory over the Soviet Union (1980)
A common question that you should be asking yourself in this class is _____.
What would I do?
What is Coca-colonization?
the globalization of American culture pushed through popular American products (such as Coca-Cola and Hollywood films)
Plagiarism is _____.
the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
'Form follows function' is a principle of design which states that _____.
the shape of a building or object should primarily relate to its intended function or purpose.
Cultural Appropriation is _____.
the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity.
Actor and comedian Jason Sudeikis wore a shirt to the premier of the second season of 'Ted Lasso' in support of whom?
three Black British Soccer Players
