Designer?
I Don't Know Her
I Don't Know Her
Setting the Scene
Punctuation Station
Design Vocabulary
Start in the Creative Cloud
100
Carolyn Davidson was famously still a student when she charged this brand only $35 for her iconic swoosh logo
What is Nike?
Fun fact: known as Blue Ribbon Sports at the time
100
This 2023 blockbuster is so far the only solo-female directed movie to make $1B
What is Barbie?
100
I don't give a fig, fudge, or fish about this divisive list separator
What is an Oxford comma?
100
This online navigation system that places you along the trail of links that led you to your destination is probably favored by Hansel & Gretel, too
What are breadcrumbs?
100
The After Effects of this suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in gas may make it harder to breathe, eek!
What is 
-rosol?
200
This Pentagram partner is responsible for iconic brand designs like Tiffany & Co. and The Public Theater and was featured in Netflix's “Abstract: The Art of Design"
Who is Paula Scher?
200
This 2024 musical shows this special logo as an homage to the 1930s Universal logo and the 1930s film it remixes
What is Wicked: Part One?
200
This 1962 invention by ad exec Martin K. Speckter combines two end marks in one
What is an interrobang‽
200
Making the "cancel" option a less-readable secondary link is an example of this unethical design feature which can be synonymized as "sinister system"
What is a dark pattern?
also acceptable: deceptive design, dark UX
200
The venn diagram of Illustrators and this word for cat lovers is basically a circle
What is 
-lurophile?
300
This "Design Matters" podcast host led branding initiatives for Burger King, Tropicana, Star Wars, and more. Plus, she's half of a power couple with her essayist wife Roxane Gay
Who is Debbie Millman?
300
This 2022 sci-fi film from A24 had its googly eyes on the prize, winning 7 of its 11 Oscar nominations
What is Everything Everywhere All at Once?
300
This vertically centered dot used to separate words in Classical Latin or to multiply in math
What is an interpunct?
also acceptable: interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, dot operator
300
This design style that has digital interfaces mimicking their real-world counterparts was big on the first iPhone and original Instagram logo but has virtually disappeared since
What is skeumorphism?
300
InDesign this manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture
What is 
-eologue?
400
Sylvia Harris is honored for her landmark "public information design" with this professional design organization's Citizen Design Award, named in her honor
What is AIGA (The American Institute of Graphic Arts)?
400
This 2018 film glitches the Columbia logo into a few animation styles, nodding at the story and visuals to come
What is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?
400
These French quotation marks come in pairs of chevrons and are named after the French printer and punchcutter Guillaume Le Bé, even though he didn't even come up with them!
What are guillemets?
400
These German psychology concepts have made their way into design, most notably Similarity, Simplicity, Proximity, and Closure
What are Gestalt Principles?
also acceptable: Gestalt laws of perceptual organization
400
Premiere one of these 9 (or later 10) bodyguards of the Roman Emperor
What is 
-aetorian Guard?
500
Philatelists would recognize Gail Anderson's iconic work for this service commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation (and so did real Jeopardy!)
What is the USPS (United States Postal Service)?
500
This 1998 Nora Ephron classic featured a title co-designed by legend Milton Glaser and nodded to the narrative importance of the burgeoning internet
What is You've Got Mail?
500
This glyph marks the start of a paragraph comes from the Ancient Greek parágraphos, but our modern name is closer to the Middle English pylcrafte
What is a pilcrow?
500
This design characteristic which aids usability helps cue the user on what they can do, like a handle on a door or a greyed-out button that can't be clicked yet
What is an Affordance?
also acceptable: Signifier
500
-ontosaurus?