Topic 1: THE NATURE, ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

Review Questions

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Multiple Choice

Designing is the process of envisioning and planning the creation of objects, interactive systems, buildings, vehicles, etc. 

• True

• False

Reorder

Reorder the following early era of design (pre-digital era) based on the design history.

• Cave paintings ~38,000 BCE

• Sumerian written language – 3300 – 3000 BCE

• Chinese printing 200 CE – 1040 CE

• Medieval calligraphy – 700s

• European heraldry – ~1100

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Multiple Choice

Who first used the term “graphic design”?

• Paul Rand

• Wiener Werkstätte

• William Addison Dwiggins

• Johannes Gutenberg

Multiple Select

Which THREE (3) are the correct elements of design?

• Form

• Emotion

• Color

• Calligraphy

• Line

Match

Match the following colour terminologies in the design correctly.

• The name of a color in its purest form

• The intensity of a color

• The intensity of white in a color

• The intensity of black in a color

• The lightness or darkness of a color

Hue

Saturation

Tint

Shade

Value

• Hue

• Saturation

• Tint

• Shade

• Value

Multiple Choice

Which of the following textures best represents nature?

Draw

Draw your name using a serif font.

Draw

Creatively, use the design element of LINE to add direction to the given photo.

Match

Match the following five basic types of visual rhythm correctly.

• Have no discernable pattern

• Follow the same spacing between each element with no variation

• Follow a set pattern that repeats, but there is variation between the actual elements

• Follow bends and curves, similar to the way sand dunes undulate or waves flow

• Change as they go along, with each change adding to the previous iterations

Random rhythm

Regular rhythms

Alternating rhythms

Flowing rhythms

Progressive rhythms

• Random rhythm

• Regular rhythms

• Alternating rhythms

• Flowing rhythms

• Progressive rhythms

Multiple Choice

Which principle of design the empty space in the photo represents?

• Pattern

• Movement

• Variety

• Rhythm

• White Space