Thinking With Type
These two words are used interchangeably, but one refers to the design of letterforms while the other refers to the deliver mechanism.
What are typeface and font?
This designer is most widely known for his simple geometric illustrations and type that were featured in the intro and credits sequences in films such as "The Man with the Golden Arm" and Hitchcock's "North by Northwest"
Who is Saul Bass?
This program is a designer's go-to for clean vector shapes and scalable artwork.
What is Adobe Illustrator?
The most influential art and design school in history, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 with the mission to embody a rational, optimistic spirit for the future.
What is Bauhaus?
This typeface was created by Dan Costello in 1982 with the intention to look like what a written font would have looked like in biblical times in the Middle East. It also gave Ryan Gosling an emotional breakdown on SNL.
What is Papyrus?
This is the term for adjusting the spacing of a set of letters.
What is tracking?
This PSU GD alum designed the infamous Nike swoosh while still an undergrad in 1971 to try to get some extra cash for oil painting supplies.
Who is Carolyn Davidson?
This technique is commonly used for putting images on t-shirts and posters, by transfering ink through a mesh with the image's negative blocked out.
What is screenprinting?
This kitschy trend had its hayday in the 80s and is characterized by abstract squiggles, bright colors, simple geometric shapes, and plastic textures.
What is Memphis design?
The last word in a paragraph that exists on a line all by itself.
What is an orphan?
This is the empty space that is enclosed entirely or partially by a letterform such as in an 'e' or 'a' or 'c'
This designer was the Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers from 1967-1980s and art directed their newspaper, which provided nearly all of the organization's iconography.
Who is Emory Douglas?
A type of relief printing where a designer composes and locks movable type into the "bed" or "chase" of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink from the type which creates an impression on the paper.
What is letterpress printing?
This highly decorative and illustrative style was most popular from 1890-1910 and features lots of organic shapes including whiplash lines. It's also a precursor to psychedelic design of the 60s.
What is Art Nouveau?
Paramount pushed back the release date of this movie to give the animators a chance to redesign the main character after an overwhelming amount of backlash and criticism from Twitter.
What is "Sonic The Hedgehog?"
This kind of typeface is built out of pixels and contains a fixed number of rectilinear units. It is often used on cash registers and small-scale screens.
What is bitmap?
A Russian Constructivist graphic designer whose designs are almost scientifically calculated with a restricted color palette and rigid geometry, and combined typography and photographic elements for the first time in such political work.
Who is Aleksander Rodchenko?
A document prepared for copying or printing by combining and pasting various sections on a backing. This manual method was used before digital layout programs like InDesign.
What is a paste-up?
Characterised by extreme simplicity of form and a very literal, objective approach, this style originated in New York in the late 1960s, and has enjoyed a a significant resurgence in fields such as branding, UI design and packaging – due to influential brands such as Apple and Google prioritising a clean, pared-back aesthetic.
What is minimalism?
The first computer virus called "Creeper System" was designed and released in this year
What is 1971
This large sans-serif typeface family was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1957 who made the comparison "Helvetica is the jeans, __________ is the dinner jacket".
What is Univers?
This Italian designer was dubbed "The New Leonardo" by Picasso for being a successful graphic designer, industrial designer, toy maker, children's book author, xerographer, writer, and sculptor. He is most well known today for his book "Design as Art"
Who is Bruno Munari?
A foundational tool for creative coding that was created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas in the early 2000s and has since been surpassed by programs such as openFrameworks and p5.js
What is Processing?
Wolfgang Weingart is credited with developing this style of typography in the early 1970s known for its inconsistent letterspacing, varying typeweights within single words and type set at non-right angles to defy grid-based arrangement and the Swiss style.
What is New Wave or Swiss Punk Typography?
What is the Mercator Map?