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Graphic Design General Knowledge

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the appropriate resolution an image should have in order to be printed clearly?

a)

75dpi

b)

225dpi

c)

300dpi

d)

150dpi

2.

What does the acronym D&AD stand for?

a)

Design & Advertising

b)

Design & Art Direction

3.

Who wrote the book The Art of Looking Sideways?

a)

Adrian Shaughnessy

b)

Alan Kitching

c)

Alan Fletcher

d)

Mary Calvert

4.

What is the size of a piece of A2 paper in millimetres?

a)

420x594

b)

210x297

c)

348x453

5.

Which designer has a sabbatical (a break) every 7 years to work solely on personal projects?

a)

Kate Morross

b)

Stefan Sagmeister

c)

Michael Beirut

6.

What did Johannes Gutenberg invent in 1450?

a)

The typewriter

b)

Lino printing

c)

Moveable type

d)

An early version of Photoshop

7.

In colour theory what does 'analogous' mean?

a)

Colours that clash

b)

3 colours next to each other on the wheel

c)

Different shades of one colour

8.

Who designed the iconic 'I heart NY' logo?

a)

Paula Scher

b)

Milton Glaser

c)

Quentin Blake

d)

David Carson

9.

What is the adobe shortcut to check spelling on a Mac?

a)

command + m

b)

command + i

c)

command + shift + s

d)

ctrl + alt + delete

10.

What is a collapse transformation?

a)

A medical condition

b)

A switch in AfterEffects

c)

A tool in Photoshop

d)

A menu in InDesign

11.

Which Graphic Designer is known for his work seen in Alfred Hitchcock's films?

a)

Saul Goodman

b)

Saul Berrenson

c)

Saul Bass

d)

Saul Bellow

12.

Who designed the Avant Garde typeface?

a)

Adrian Frutiger

b)

Herb Lubalin

c)

Erik Spiekermann

d)

Mary Calvert

13.

Which Russian is best known for his art direction of the magazine Harper's Bazaar?

a)

Sergei Skripal

b)

Grigori Rasputin

c)

Alexey Brodovitch

d)

Vladimir Lenin

14.

Which British designer did a number of record sleeves for the label Factory Records?

a)

Brian Cox

b)

Brian May

c)

Peter Gabriel

d)

Peter Saville

15.

What is the image on the album cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures?

a)

An illustration of a mountain range in New Zealand

b)

Superimposed traces of the band members' heartbeats

c)

Radio emissions given out by a rotating neutron star

d)

Soundwaves of someone screaming on a rollercoaster

16.

The iconic magazine Face was first printed in 1980; in what year did Neville Brody join as a young art director?

a)

1982

b)

1981

c)

1980

d)

1983

17.

To which anti-art movement did the collagist Hannah Höch belong?

a)

Surrealism

b)

Cubism

c)

Dadaism

18.

Who published their first book in 2014 entitled Make Your Own Luck?

a)

Paula Scher

b)

Kate Morross

c)

Kate Moss

19.

"A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an example of an English-language pangram—what is a pangram?

a)

A sentence that reads the same both ways

b)

A sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet

c)

A sentence where the letters can be rearranged to make a new meaning

20.

Who designed the London Underground map?

a)

Harry Beck

b)

Harry Styles

c)

Harry Charles Albert David

21.

In what year was the typeface Futura designed?

a)

1967

b)

1987

c)

1927

d)

1947

22.

Which British illustrator desgined the latest Harry Potter covers?

a)

Olly Moss

b)

George Butler

c)

Judith Kerr

23.

What is the name of the animation technique where motion footage is traced over frame-by-frame?

a)

Stop motion

b)

Claymation

c)

Rotoscoping

24.

In what year was the first version of InDesign released?

a)

1999

b)

1989

c)

1984

d)

1998

25.

How many bouncy balls were used in the iconic Sony Bravia advert created by Fallon?

a)

1,000,000

b)

500,000

c)

250,000

26.

Which typographer the the many road signs used throughout the UK?

a)

Louise Filli

b)

Jessica Hische

c)

Mary Calvert

27.

What percentage of the L5 graphics reader - The Essentials of Visual Communication by Bo Bergstrom have you read?

a)

None

b)

Cover to cover

c)

Half

d)

A little

28.

In what year was The Woodman pub built?

a)

1802

b)

1897

c)

1932