Los Angeles Design
Design Origins
Future Concepts
All in the Details
100
This iconic structure was designed by Los Angeles-based architect Paul R. Williams (pictured here) and completed in 1961 is at the center of the Los Angeles International Airport. This three letter airport code is used to describe THIS airport.
What is LAX?
100
"Tink" Adams founded THIS school in 1930 to teach real-world skills to artists and designers and prepare them for leadership roles in advertising, publishing and industrial design.
What is the "The Art Center School"?
Which became "Art Center College of Design" in 1965
100
THIS new technology is blamed by conspirary theorists for creating Corona virus cells in humans. While it doesn't do that, it does nearly eliminate latency in data transfer.
What is 5g?
100
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel are referred to as "analogous colors". Colors on opposite sides of the color wheel are referred to as THIS.
What are complementary colors?
200
This architectural masterpiece, The Ennis House, completed in 1924 was featured in the 1982 future-drama Blade Runner. This home represents one of eight homes designed by THIS architect in Los Angeles.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
200
The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the earliest documented examples to use THIS formula to establish its proportions made famous by Leonardo DaVinci nearly 4000 years later.
What is the Golden Ratio?
200
When an existing video is replaced with someone elses likeness using machine learning and artificial intelligence it is referred to as THIS…
What are Deepfakes?
200
When typesetting your resume, it's often hard to make all the content fit on one page. You may have to adjust the space in between the lines of text, also know as THIS.
What is leading?
300
Southern California is known for swimming pools. In 1976 and 1977 the 1st and 4th driest years on record, home owners emptied their pools to conserve water. The Zephyr boys from Dogtown took advantage of these empty pools and used them for this sport...
What is skateboarding?
300
THESE sneakers, made famous by the Cholo culture of Los Angeles, are ironically named for a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
What is Cortez?
300
When using zoom, it's a good practice to mute yourself unless you are speaking. When muted you can temporarily unmute yourself by pressing THIS on your keyboard?
What is the spacebar?
300
THIS “view” is an orthographic projection looking down on an object. It is part of every technical drawing set.
What is a plan view?
400
A steel prototype of the iconic chair pictured below won second place at the 'International Competition of Low-Cost Furniture Design' held by the Museum of Modern Art in 1948 and was designed and produced in Los Angeles by the husband in THIS wife and husband design team.
Who are Ray and Charles Eames?
400
Intended to serve as a “permanent memorial to members of the art community who have died of AIDS and as a symbol of hope and compassion,” this mural on the ArtCenter hillside campus was complete in 1989 by THIS artist...
Who is Keith Haring?
400
This design process involves a computer program that generates outputs that meet constraints defined by a designer (example below) is called THIS:
What is generative design?
400
THIS is the process of adjusting the spacing between individual letter forms so they appear visually similar.
What is kerning?
500
THIS recording artist constructed four "Star Wars"-inspired structures on his property in Calabasas, California, which were intended to house the homeless. The dwellings were supposed to be temporary prototypes, but a Los Angeles county inspector said they looked permanent and forced their demolition.
Who is Kanye West?
500
When Los Angeles was founded in 1781, the original encampment site was constructed near the Yaangna Village that THESE native inhabitants occupied for hundreds of years.
Who are the Tongva or Kizh? (Also called Gabrieleño of Fernandeño for the missions built on their land.)
500
While Marshall McLuhan may have predicted the world wide web more than thirty years before its invention with his "global village" concept, he is best known for THIS phrase that proposes that a communication medium, not the message it carries, should be the primary focus of study.
What is "The Medium is the Message"?
500
If you want to help Americans understand the measurements in your drawings, you can quickly divide by 2.54 to convert THESE to THESE.
What are centimeters to inches?