WorksheetsGraphic Design General Knowledge
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
What is the appropriate resolution an image should have in order to be printed clearly?
75dpi
225dpi
300dpi
150dpi
What does the acronym D&AD stand for?
Design & Advertising
Design & Art Direction
Who wrote the book The Art of Looking Sideways?
Adrian Shaughnessy
Alan Kitching
Alan Fletcher
Mary Calvert
What is the size of a piece of A2 paper in millimetres?
420x594
210x297
348x453
Which designer has a sabbatical (a break) every 7 years to work solely on personal projects?
Kate Morross
Stefan Sagmeister
Michael Beirut
What did Johannes Gutenberg invent in 1450?
The typewriter
Lino printing
Moveable type
An early version of Photoshop
In colour theory what does 'analogous' mean?
Colours that clash
3 colours next to each other on the wheel
Different shades of one colour
Who designed the iconic 'I heart NY' logo?
Paula Scher
Milton Glaser
Quentin Blake
David Carson
What is the adobe shortcut to check spelling on a Mac?
command + m
command + i
command + shift + s
ctrl + alt + delete
What is a collapse transformation?
A medical condition
A switch in AfterEffects
A tool in Photoshop
A menu in InDesign
Which Graphic Designer is known for his work seen in Alfred Hitchcock's films?
Saul Goodman
Saul Berrenson
Saul Bass
Saul Bellow
Who designed the Avant Garde typeface?
Adrian Frutiger
Herb Lubalin
Erik Spiekermann
Mary Calvert
Which Russian is best known for his art direction of the magazine Harper's Bazaar?
Sergei Skripal
Grigori Rasputin
Alexey Brodovitch
Vladimir Lenin
Which British designer did a number of record sleeves for the label Factory Records?
Brian Cox
Brian May
Peter Gabriel
Peter Saville
What is the image on the album cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures?
An illustration of a mountain range in New Zealand
Superimposed traces of the band members' heartbeats
Radio emissions given out by a rotating neutron star
Soundwaves of someone screaming on a rollercoaster
The iconic magazine Face was first printed in 1980; in what year did Neville Brody join as a young art director?
1982
1981
1980
1983
To which anti-art movement did the collagist Hannah Höch belong?
Surrealism
Cubism
Dadaism
Who published their first book in 2014 entitled Make Your Own Luck?
Paula Scher
Kate Morross
Kate Moss
"A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an example of an English-language pangram—what is a pangram?
A sentence that reads the same both ways
A sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet
A sentence where the letters can be rearranged to make a new meaning
Who designed the London Underground map?
Harry Beck
Harry Styles
Harry Charles Albert David
In what year was the typeface Futura designed?
1967
1987
1927
1947
Which British illustrator desgined the latest Harry Potter covers?
Olly Moss
George Butler
Judith Kerr
What is the name of the animation technique where motion footage is traced over frame-by-frame?
Stop motion
Claymation
Rotoscoping
In what year was the first version of InDesign released?
1999
1989
1984
1998
How many bouncy balls were used in the iconic Sony Bravia advert created by Fallon?
1,000,000
500,000
250,000
Which typographer the the many road signs used throughout the UK?
Louise Filli
Jessica Hische
Mary Calvert
What percentage of the L5 graphics reader - The Essentials of Visual Communication by Bo Bergstrom have you read?
None
Cover to cover
Half
A little
In what year was The Woodman pub built?
1802
1897
1932
