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200

A countercultural design that questioned consumerism and emphasized living in the moment because it was made from this material.

What is paper?

200

1967, the United States, the name of this event of the countercultual movement that was centered on the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco.

What is the Human Be-In?

200

Vivienne Westwood designed dystopian fashion in this design style of the 1970s and 80s that ritique consumerism and the empty promises of Modernism?

What is Postmodernism?

200

A style that came from aerodynamic engineering but became just a way of changing the appearance of products. Characterized by:

  • rounded forms
  • parallel lines.

What is streamlining?

200

Material, time period, and style

What is Fiberglass, 1940-1959, Organic Modernism?

400

A bent plywood chair with plastic laminate (formica) in the shape of an elite carved antique is an example of          in design, a funny pardoy of elite design characteristic of Postmodernism. 

What is kitsch?

400

The name of this set of body measurements developed in the United States during World War II that lead to greater consideration of the diversity of bodies and abilities in design?

What is Human Factors?

400

Two Modern design characteristics that Marianne Brandt applied to the design of this teapot include                and                        .

What are pure geometries of spheres and circles, reduced color, and functional design?

400

The concentric circles of Fiesta dinnerware of the 190s expressed streamlining and motion by resembling this.

What is a spinning wheel or a machine part?
400

time period, nation/culture, style

What is 1970-1989, United States, Postmodern?

600

Designers from this country, where the Joe Sofa was designed, participated in the Pop movement in the 1960s by creating bizarre furniture like inflatable chairs and giant foam blocks that freed users to experiment and sit in unsanctioned postures. 

What is Italy?

600

Designers softened their designs in the 1940s and 50s away from the strict geometries of Modernism to create this similarly named but different design style sometimes called mid-Century Modernism. 

What is organic modernism?

600

Ruth Reeves "Manhattan" textile celebrates urban life in the                        style characteristic of the United States in the 1920s and 30s. 

What is Art Deco? (or skyscraper style)

600

Who needs a refrigerator that looks like its in motion? Apparently a bunch of Americans did as this streamlined style successfully enticed Americans to do this.

What is purchase a new refrigerator?

600

Time period, nation/culture, style

What is 1925-1939, United States, Art Deco?
800

A brightly colored cabinet in the shape of a 1950s robot from a Sci-Fi B-movie that looks like it should move but is fixed is a Postmodern design originating in this country?

What is Japan?

800

Invented to create lightweight airplane parts during World War II, designers Charles & Ray Eames adapted the material used to make this splint to create their iconic seating furniture. 

What is bent or molded plywood?

800

Sometimes called "Schmoos" after 1950s comic book characters, Eva Zeisels salt and pepper shakers express                   design, a formal quality derived from the forms of living, growing, and changing things?

What is biomorphic design?

800

A whoosh of air made these plastic storage containters "burp," an audible technique used to sell the product in what location in the United States in the post War years?

What is in the home?

800

Time period, nation/culture, style.

What is 1920-1930, Germany, Modernism?

1000

This barely functional bookcase designed to create media buzz through its bright colors and anthroporphic shape was made by this famous Postmodern design group.

What is the Memphis Design Group?

1000

The designer of the womb chair used this new material that emerged World War II in the United States to create a form that cradled the human body like a baby in its mother's womb. 


What is fiberglass?

1000

Two Modern design characteristics of this textile designed by Anni Albers are                         and                     .

What are abstraction, ahistoricism, geometries, and reduced color?
1000

The dynmaxion car, an automobile designed during these decades in the United States was Streamlining taken too far - beyond the Maya stage and into what industrial designer  Raymond Loewy called the                  . 

What is the shock zone?

1000

Time period, nation/culture, style.

What is 1970-1989, United States, Postmodernism