WorksheetsGraphic Design
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 17mins
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.
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False
Designers use their expertise to inform people about important issues and promote social causes and nonprofits.
True
False
A career competency for a junior graphic designer is to design visual communication utilizing the principles of composition (visual hierarchy, unity, balance, rhythm), typography, and aesthetics.
True
False
Breaking text into manageable chunks is a way to ensure type is readable.
True
False
Letterspacing is the counter space inside letterforms.
True
False
Selecting a typeface associated with a time period or style, such as art deco, carries historical and aesthetic meaning and should be considered in relation to the imagery.
True
False
Which of the following is not among the general categories of type alignment?
Left-aligned: Text aligned to the left margin and ragged or uneven on the right side; it is also called left-justification or flush left/ragged right
Right-aligned: Text aligned to the right margin and ragged or uneven on the left margin; it is also called right-justification or flush right/ragged left
Justified: Text aligned on both the left and right sides
Centered: Lines of type centered on an imaginary central vertical axis
Frame: Type is set around the perimeter of a page.
When selecting a typeface, a designer should evaluate each typeface for its characteristics.
True
False
What is a typeface?
A typeface is the design of a type of face, for example, round versus oval.
A typeface is the design of two sets of characters.
None of the above
A typeface is the design of a single set of characters unified by consistent visual properties.
