Designer?
I Don't Know Her
I Don't Know Her
Setting the Scene
Punctuation Station
Design Vocabulary
Start in the Creative Cloud
200
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
200
This 2023 blockbuster is so far the only solo-female directed movie to make $1B
What is Barbie?
200
I don't give a fig, fudge, or fish about this divisive list separator
What is an Oxford comma?
200
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?
200
The After Effects of this suspension of fine particles in gas may make it harder to breathe, eek!
What is 
-rosol?
400
This Pentagram partner shepherded 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?
400
This 2024 musical uses a special logo to allude to the 1930s Universal logo and the 1930s film it remixes
What is Wicked: Part One?
400
This 1962 invention by ad exec Martin K. Speckter combines two end marks in one
What is an interrobang‽
400
Making the "cancel" option a less-readable secondary link is an example of this unethical design practice which can be synonymized as "sinister system"
What is a dark pattern?
also acceptable: deceptive design, dark UX
400
Premiere one of these 9 (or later 10) bodyguards of the Roman Emperor
What is 
-aetorian Guard?
600
This "Design Matters" host led branding for Burger King, Star Wars, and more. Plus, she's half of a power couple with essayist wife Roxane Gay
Who is Debbie Millman?
600
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?
600
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
600
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?
600
InDesign this belief that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group
What is 
-eology?
800
Sylvia Harris's landmark "public information design" is honored with this professional organization's Citizen Design Award, named after her
What is AIGA (The American Institute of Graphic Arts)?
800
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?
800
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?
800
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
800
The venn diagram of Illustrators and this word for cat lovers is basically a circle
What is 
-lurophile?
1000
Philatelists would collect Gail Anderson's iconic design for this government agency marking the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation (and so did real Jeopardy!)
What is the USPS (United States Postal Service)?
1000
This 1998 Nora Ephron classic had titles co-designed by legend Milton Glaser and nodded to the narrative importance of the nascent internet
What is You've Got Mail?
1000
The name of this glyph, which 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?
1000
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
1000