Industrial Design Test 2

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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


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