Intro to Graphic Design exam

What is Graphic design?

• It is visual communication using type and images.

• It is making information and content clear and accessible

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

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.

Which of the following are career competencies for a junior graphic designer and what design studios and companies expect?

• • Solve a visual communication problem, fully addressing the client’s goal, researching and exploring possible solutions and generating solutions.

• • A career competency for a junior graphic designer is to Design ideas.

• Generate relevant and creative omnichannel concepts based on strategy.

• It is to design computers.

Name media channels where we distribute graphic design.

• Print, broadcast, web, mobile, out of home, social, and experiential

• On A house

• On a car

What is a T-shaped thinker?

• A T shaped thinker is a design expert with a broad knowledge base.

• • someone who has extensive knowledge and expertise only in a particular area

• • an intellectual dilettante who is interested in many things

What is the First Things First manifesto?

• A call for designers to use problem-solving skills in pursuit of projects that would improve society.

• • To emphasize aesthetic appeal

• • To encourage competition among designers

Which of the following answers are career competencies?

• Graphic designers must address the generation and execution of concepts for a single assignment as well as understand how that single design solution works in a broader, integrated program or campaign.

• Construct clear communications to a target  audience and respond to audience contexts. Understand how to address people who vary in their psychographic and demographic profiles and cultural communities. Understand where people spend their time, anticipate their behaviors, and value their time.

• • Design visual communication utilizing the principles of composition (visual hierarchy, unity, balance, rhythm), typography, and aesthetics.

• Communicating your needs to survive in the world. Also explaining what food you would like to consume.

True or false:

The figure/ground relationship is about positive and negative shape relationships.

• True

• False

• neither

True or False:

A designer uses the formal elements of two-dimensional design to generate design concepts.

• Neither

• False

• True

Which of the following are Career Competencies?

• Utilize current tools and technology to communicate visually.

• • Collaborate productively on interdisciplinary teams and on conventional creative teams.

• • A career competency for a junior graphic designer is to collaborate productively on interdisciplinary teams and on conventional creative teams.

• • A career competency for a junior graphic designer is to be proficient in software. Understand the capabilities of all digital channels/platforms.

• None of these answers are correct.