Elements of Design
Principles of Design
Gestalt Principles
Misc Design Terms
Adobe Illustrator
100

Name the term that describes an element that uses length and dimensions

What is a line?

100

Name the POD that describes something repeating within a system

What is pattern?

100

Name the Gestalt Principle that deals with filling in the blanks or missing information

What is closure?

100

Describe the term that means without color

What is achromatic?
100

Define the stroke

What is the thickness or thinness of a line

200

A closed 2D object is know as a what?

What is a shape?

200

Define movement

What is the path the viewers eye takes throughout a work or composition

200

What is the Gestalt principle that deals with spacial relationships

What is figure/ ground?

200

Deconstructing something down to its basic, fundamental elements using simplified visual vocabulary

What is reductionism?

200

Name the primary difference between Adobe Illustrator and other image editing softwares

What is Adobe Illustrator is a vector program
300

Lightness or darkness

What is value?

300

Name the four compositional balances that deal with mirroring

What is symmetry, asymmetry, approximate symmetry and radial symmetry

300

Describe Continuity

What is the degree of connection or flow among compositional parts regardless if the path is interrupted.

300

The actual flat surface of the flat artwork as opposed to the illusion of space depicted in the image

What is picture plane?

300
Referring to the surface that you work on in Illustrator

What is an artboard?

400

Closed irregular 2D object

What is organic?

400

What is the difference between proportion and scale?

What is proportion defines as parts to the whole and scale defines as two separate objects size relationship
400

Name the two Gestalt Principles that deal with grouping

What is proximity and similarity?

400

What is the shape in front and what is the space behind called?

What is the figure (or positive shape) and negative space?

400

The process of combining, subtracting and manipulating multiple shapes together

What is pathfinder
500

Name all Elements of Design

What is line, color, texture, shape, space, form, value

500

Name all Principles of Design

What is composition, balance, unity, variety, juxtaposition, movement, emphasis, contrast, scale, proportion, pattern, rhythm?

500

Define Gestalt psychology

What is visual perception that states “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”

500

What is a metaphor?

What is to suggest a likeness or analogy between dissimilar items?

500

Name the TWO steps in the process of converting a pixel image into a vector system

What is image trace and expand?

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