Study Guide to Accompany Meggs' History of Graphic Design

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4. A radical design innovation in Celtic manuscripts was using __________ to separate strings of letters into words allowing readers to recognize them more quickly. A. punctuation B. lacertine animals C. diminuendo D. word spaces 5. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, who was declared emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day, A.D. 800, fostered a revival of learning and the arts. He recruited ___________ to come to his palace at Aachen and establish a school and a scriptorium where master copies of important religious texts were prepared. A. a turba scriptorium B. the scribe Florentius C. the English scholar Alcuin of York D. the Limbourg brothers 6. Charlemagne mandated reform by royal edict in A.D. 789 and succeeded in reforming the alphabet with the use of four guidelines, ascenders, and descenders. The resulting uniform script, called __________, is the forerunner of our contemporary lowercase alphabet. A. Caroline miniscules B. Celtic unicials C. diminuendo D. Celtic semi-unicials 7. Many examples of Moorish-influenced manuscripts from Spain, such as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Beatus of Fernando and Sancha, in which arrows pierce the hearts of nonbelievers, are texts on ___________. A. prayers and calendars of saints’ days B. the Book of Revelation C. the Qu’ran D. classical literature from ancient Rome 30
8. During the Romanesque period (A.D. c. 1000 to 1150), which saw renewed religious fervor and even stronger feudalism, universal design characteristics seemed possible because ___________. A. travel increased due to the crusades and pilgrimages B. isolated villages had minor skirmishes C. barbaric tribes became nomadic D. feudal lords increased their territories 9. The textura lettering style (from the Lain texturum, meaning woven fabric or texture) seen in Gothic manuscripts—composed of vertical strokes capped with pointed serifs—was also called by other terms, which were misleading and vague. Which name was the preferred name during its time? ___________ A. littera moderna B. lettre de forme C. black letter D. old English 10. Muhammad called upon his followers to learn to read and write, and calligraphy quickly became an important tool for government business and religion. Islamic manuscript decoration is characterized by all but one of the elements below. Which does NOT belong? __________ A. Rosettes drawn to separate verses B. Intricate geometric and arabesque designs C. Ornate vowel marks D. Figurative illustrations 11. In the early 1400s, the___________, a private devotional text that contained religious texts, prayers, and calendars listing the days of the important saints, became Europe’s most popular book. A. Commentary of Beatus B. Book of Hours C. Apocalypse D. Four Gospels 12. In the early scriptorium, the ________ was responsible for the execution of ornament and image in visual support of the text. 31
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgments I would like to tha
Page 7 and 8: Introduction, 4 Prehistoric visual
Page 9 and 10: Multiple Choice Chapter 1 - Study Q
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Page 17 and 18: Introduction, 18 Cretan pictographs
Page 19 and 20: Phoenicians, page 19 Cadmus of Mile
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Page 33 and 34: Introduction, 42 The classical styl
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Page 69 and 70: Axes, page 125 Cartesian coordinate
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following advances in graphic desig
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A. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
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Matching I. Match the key people wi
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Chapter 10 - The Arts and Crafts Mo
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Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society,
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Multiple Choice Chapter 10 - Study
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C. The use of seven different color
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15. __________ established Eragny P
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II. Match each of the images shown
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Art nouveau, page 194 Historicism,
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-190
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C. Celtic ornament D. Assyrian moti
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11. A member of the Flemish Group o
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6. The coloring book style of Aubre
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Chapter 12 - The Genesis of Twentie
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epresent the first use of sans-seri
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B. Peter Behrens C. Koloman Moser 1
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Photomontage, page 259 Merz, page 2
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press: a head wrapped in newspaper
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the authority of the military, educ
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Introduction, 269 Plakatstil, 270 S
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E. surrealsim 8. ____________ of Mu
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3. Fig. 14-8 ______________________
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Dev\tsil (Nine Forces), page 307 Ke
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D. Basic Concepts of Form-Making 4.
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B. Théo van Doesburg C. Alexander
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3. Alexander Rodchenko designed thi
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Experimenta Typographica, page 333,
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6. Much of the creative innovation
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layouts and de Stijl’s insistence
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Introduction, 336 Chapter 17 - The
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C. Joseph Binder D. Jean Carlu 6. I
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11. An important milestone in the v
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Introduction, 356 Chapter 18 - The
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A. Adrian Frutiger B. Max Miedinger
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ased on the elemental graphic-form
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Introduction, 374 Pioneers of the N
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A. Paul Rand B. Saul Bass C. Alvin
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format and grid became the norm. Am
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2. Visual/verbal syntax ____ 3. Fig
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Adriano Olivetti (1901-1970), page
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A. Herbert Matter B. Norman Ives C.
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spread a generic conformity across
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Matching A. Georg Olden B. Massimo
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Key People and Their Major Contribu
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developed for a Mademoiselle poster
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12. The vibrant contrasting colors
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Chapter 22 - National Visions withi
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Biennial Exhibition of Prints in To
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designers, such as ______________,
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A. Masuda Tadashi B. Takenobu Igara
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Key People and Their Major Contribu
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widespread influence on typographic
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C. Herbert Matter D. Walter Herdeg
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II. Identify the postmodern movemen
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Desktop publishing, page 490 Émigr
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Hideki Nakajima (b. 1961), page 508
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designers vigorously committed to c
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B. Matthew Carter C. Robert Slimbac
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from the image on the cover, he put
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4. Susan Kare ____ 5. Carol Twombly
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of interactive media who believed d
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Matching I. II. III. 1. determinati
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Multiple Choice 1. B - sounds 2. C
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Multiple Choice 1. A - oil paint 2.
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Multiple Choice 1. C - copisti 2. A
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Multiple Choice 1. A - Devotional p
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Multiple Choice Chapter 6 - Answer
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Multiple Choice 1. D - Venice 2. A
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II. 4. Fig. 7-27: Geoffroy Tory, pa
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4. True 5. False 6. False 7. False
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23. B - Century 24. A - market rese
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Multiple Choice 1. B - screen paint
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II. 1. Fig. 11-3: E - Kitagawa Utam
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II. 6. Fig. 12-30: Josef Hoffmann,
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III. 1. collage: D 2. manifesto: A
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II. 3. Fig. 14-8: Hans Rudi Erdt, P
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III. 1. C - Novyi lef (Left Front o
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Multiple Choice 1. B - Armory Show
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2. B - Figurative typography 3. C -
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2. B - corporate identity 3. A - an
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Multiple Choice 1. B - Pentagram’
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Multiple Choice 1. B - mannerism 2.
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Multiple Choice 1. C - phototype 2.
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VI. 1. linear series - C 2. spatial
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