History of Graphic Design

Lascaux is famous for its Palaeolithic cave paintings. These beautiful works are found in a complex of caves in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. 

Estimated to be up to _______ years old, the paintings consist primarily of large animals, once native to the region. They were painted with mineral pigments by our cave dwelling ancestors.

• 15,000,000

• 5,000,000

• 20,000

• 200,000

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the writing system used in Ancient Egypt.

The language was lost for a time and wasn’t full deciphered until the 1820’s by Jean-François Champollion, with the help of the ______

• Rosetta Stone

• Lascaux

• Helvetica

• Photoengraved printing

The book of (a)   is an illuminated manuscript.

_______was one of the first independent punchcutters, starting his own foundry  His career therefore helped to define the future of commercial printing with typefounding as a distinct industry to printing books.

• Gutenberg

• Rosetta

• Garamond

• Helvetica

Whose Bible is this?

• Rosetta

• Gutenberg

• Garamond

• Helvetica

What government document has become one of the most circulated, reprinted, and influential documents in world history.

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. In 1826 or 1827, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real world scene. Which one is it?

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Which is an example of Art Nouveau?

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Which is an example of the Bauhaus style?

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What book coined the term “Graphic Design”

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