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WorksheetsGraphic Design History - Early Modernism
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 6mins
At the end of the nineteenth century, architects, along with fashion, graphic, and product designers, moved away from the floral, curvilinear elements of Art Nouveau and toward a more __________ style of composition.
Victorian
international
geometric
Celtic
The German artist, architect, and designer ____________ sought typographic reform and was an early advocate of sans-serif typography. He was the first to use sans-serif type as running book text.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Peter Behrens
Talwin Morris
Josef Hoffmann
In 1916, the eminent calligrapher Edward Johnston was chosen to design an exclusive, patented typeface for the world’s first __________. The strokes of this sans-serif typeface have consistent weight; however, the letters have the basic proportions of classical Roman inscriptions.
design magazine
world’s fair
underground electric railway system
corporate identity
The _____________ was an outgrowth of Sezessionstil and sought a close union of the fine and applied arts in the design of lamps, fabrics, books, greeting cards, and other printed matter as an alternative to poorly designed, mass-produced articles and trite historicism.
Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops)
Deutsche Werkbund (German Association of Craftsmen)
The Glasgow School
The Bauhaus School
The AEG graphic identity program made consistent use of three linchpin elements. Which element below does NOT belong?
a typeface
a consistent layout of elements
a clear concept
a logo
1. The design of the typeface Akzidenz Grotesk marked a major step in the evolution of the unified and systematized type family.
True
False
At the close of the 19th century, manufacturers and retailers were interested in achieving superior design and printing for their advertising.
True
False
Newspaper ads promoting cabarets, theater, circuses, music halls, and other cultural events were immensely important decoration to the urban environment.
True
False
Poster design began to flower in the Early Modernism era and revitalize the art of the business-advertising.
True
False
British artists William Nicholson and James Pryde were otherwise known as...
The Blues Brothers
The Bash Brothers
J. & W. Beggarstaff Brothers
Captain America and Wolverine
The Beggarstaffs were inspired by design from...
Spain
England
Italy
Japan
The Beggarstaffs used _________ to compose their designs
silk screen
lithography
cut colored paper
oil paint
In an effort to interest manufacturers in their approach, they made _________ posters which they offered for sale at trade expositions.
prototype
dummy
detailed
fill-in-the-blank
The Beggarstaffs had considerable influence on what would become known as the __________ poster in Europe and America.
dummy
modernist
object
advertising
The Wiener Werkstätte (“Vienna Workshop”), built its ethic upon the idea of
Sachplakat
expressionism
Plakatstil
gesamtkunstwerk
Gesamtkunstwerk can be translated to mean...
the complete work of art
the poster
the object
the cafeteria
The Deutscher Werkbund's purpose was “to overcome the alienation that had arisen between those who invent and those who carry out.”
True
False
Peter Behrens was considered to be...
the father of the poster
the first graphic designer
the first corporate design director
the only designer to create logos
This logo, designed by Peter Behrens, was designed for...
Apple Education Group
Allgemeine Elektricitaets Gesellschaft
American Economic Gallery
Alpine Edible Gesamtkunstwerk
In the first years of contact between design and industry, the _________ was the testing ground that demonstrated that collaboration was both possible and profitable.
design lab
internet
newspaper ad
poster
In 1896, _________ became the home of the exciting movement known as Plakatstil.
Berlin
Munich
London
Paris
The famous poster shown here is the design of...
Lucian Bernhard
Ludwig Hohlwein
Hans Rudi Erdt
Jon Micah Tyson
The famous ad shown here is the design of...
Lucian Bernhard
Ludwig Hohlwein
Hans Rudi Erdt
Peter Behrens
Plakatstil is German for...
"object style"
"poster style"
"national style"
"propaganda"
Sachplakat is German for...
"object style"
"poster style"
"national style"
"propaganda"
This design by __________ is an example of innovative use of typography in posters.
Hans Rudi Erdt
Lucian Bernhard
Ludwig Hohlwein
Peter Behrens
The designer is an allegorical torchbearer in keeping with the Werkbund view that design is.....
saving the earth right after rock and roll does.
a necessary evil.
an enlightening and humanizing social force.
a profitable collaboration with industry.
The poster shown here is the work of...
Ludwig Hohlwein
Lucian Bernhard
Peter Behrens
Hans Rudi Erdt
The art shown here demonstrates...
American designers are better at stamp design than Europeans.
the title must be the largest thing in the design.
colors can be a crutch.
if the design works at a small size, it will work at a large one.
Expressionism is a mindset whereby the artist seeks...
not to show what the world feels like but rather how it looks.
not to show what the world looks like but rather how it feels.
not to show what the world wants but rather what it wants.
not to show what the world is but rather what it should be.
Expressionism was an amalgam of many isms at the turn of the century all attempting to free society from its past and cure its ills through rational effort.
True
False
The techniques and subject matter influenced graphic illustration and poster art in that the emphasis on social and political activism provided a vital model for graphic designers addressing problems of the human condition and environment at the turn of the century but is no longer relevant.
True
False
The typeface shown here designed by Edward Johnston is one of the first __________ typefaces of the century.
sans-serif
serif
decorative
script
The typeface shown here designed by Edward Johnston is the exclusive patented typeface used in the...
Austrian Alps Railroad
Swiss International Roadways
German Autobohn
Underground Electric Railways of London
The typeface shown here was designed by the Berthold Foundry and was called Standard in the United States. What was it called in Germany?
Akzidenz Grotesk
Helvetica
Behrensschrift
Gesamkultur
