Graphic Design

What is graphic design?

• Graphic design is visual communication using type and images.

• Graphic design is making information and content clear and accessible.

• Graphic design is service and actions: realized concepts and experiences that benefit people and that people can participate in.

• All of the above

What does a graphic designer do?

• A graphic designer is a professional practitioner who conceives and gives form to ideas and content (images and text).

• Graphic designers create experiences and solve a wide range of visual communication problems working with a variety of clients.

• Graphic designers contribute to visual popular culture.

• All of the above

A career competency for a junior graphic designer is to solve a visual communication problem, fully addressing the client's goals, researching and exploring possible solutions, and generating solutions.

• True

• False

The figure/ground relationship is about drawing the human figure on a surface.

• True

• False

What is the significance of understanding the figure/ground relationship?

• The background is not part of the composition.

• A designer considers the ground as an integral part of the composition.

• All positive and negative shapes are not active contributors to the impact of the composition.

• None of the above

Which four design principles does HAUS represent?

• Hierarchy, alignment, unity, and solids

• Housing, alignment, unity, and space

• Hierarchy, alignment, unity, and space

• Housing, articulation, unity, and structure

Alignment is .​

• the basic architecture of your composition

• the structural visual connections among graphic elements in a composition

• how edges line up or elements orient and how a designer arranges graphic elements into configurations

• All of the above

When selecting a typeface, a designer should evaluate each typeface for its trendiness.

• True

• False

A designer uses the formal elements of two-dimensional design to build images, patterns, letterforms, diagrams, animations, and design relationships to visually communicate a design concept.

• True

• False

Designers use their expertise to inform people about important issues and promote social causes and nonprofits.

• True

• False