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History of Graphic Design

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
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1.

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.


a)

15,000,000

b)

5,000,000

c)

20,000

d)

200,000

2.

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 ______


a)

Rosetta Stone

b)

Lascaux

c)

Helvetica

d)

Photoengraved printing

3.

The book of (a)   is an illuminated manuscript.

4.

_______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.


a)

Gutenberg

b)

Rosetta

c)

Garamond

d)

Helvetica

5.

Whose Bible is this?

a)

Rosetta

b)

Gutenberg

c)

Garamond

d)

Helvetica

6.

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


a)

Gutenberg Bible

b)

Declaration of Independence

c)

Moon Walk Newspaper

d)

The 13th amendment

7.

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?


a)

b)

c)

d)

8.

Which is an example of Art Nouveau?

a)

b)

c)

d)

9.

Which is an example of the Bauhaus style?

a)

b)

c)

d)

10.

What book coined the term “Graphic Design”

a)

Don Quixote

b)

The war of the worlds

c)

The Time Machine

d)

The Gutenberg Bible

11.

Max Miedinger was a Swiss typeface designer, best known for creating the Neue Haas Grotesk typeface in 1957. Later it's name changed to what?

a)

Helvetica

b)

Garmond

c)

Ariel

d)

Times New Roman

12.

Milton Glasser created a rock poster. It is considered an iconic design of the “psychedelic” design style. Which is it?


a)

b)

c)

d)

13.

What company had a single comercial costing US$1.5 million (equivalent to $4,400,000 in 2023). Directed by Ridley Scott and aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984

a)

Sony

b)

Coca-Cola

c)

IBM

d)

Apple

14.

The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN. The historic World Wide Web logo, designed by _________.

a)

Thomas and John Knoll

b)

George W. Bush

c)

Robert Cailliau

d)

Max Miedinger

15.

What presidential campaign is this logo from?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Donald Trump

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Ronald Reagan