Typography & Graphic Design
Data Visualization & Photography
Television & Motion Pictures
The Web
Misc. & Extra Credit
100
The creator of this round AT&T logo.
Who is Saul Bass?
100
Fill in the blank: "Correlation ________ causation."
(Hint: equals or does not equal)
DOES NOT EQUAL
100
The decade known as the "golden age" of TV.
What is the 1950s?
100
A phenomenon in which a person is exposed to ideas, people, facts, or news that adhere to or are consistent with a particular political or social ideology most commonly associated with social media algorithms.
What is a filter bubble?
100
Johannes Gutenberg was sued a lot during his life because ____.
he didn't pay back loans
200
The term used to describe the space between individual letters.
What is kerning?
200
A type of data visualization that employs animation techniques to express complex data that is difficult to visualize.
What is an infofilm?
200
The first ever televised presidential debate was between _____ and _____.
Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy
200
Started as a static, page-driven family or corporate tool with little user input or influence on the information.
(Hint: Web 1.0, Web 2.0, or Web 3.0)
What is Web 1.0?
200
What is a duck in visual communication?
When design aesthetics overpower actual utility, specifically in data visualization.
300
The original typeface used by Gutenberg for his Bibles.
What is blackletter?
300
Took the iconic photo “Migrant Mother.”
Who is Dorothea Lange?
300
The inventor of the television.
Philo Farnsworth
300
In regards to the web, HTTP stands for ________.
What is HyperText Transfer Protocol?
300
The character in Star Wars known for defeating enemies by analyzing their art and identifying weaknesses.
Who is Grand Admiral Thrawn?
400
The space between two columns.
What is an alley?
400
This lens-type gives a viewer an expansive, scene-setting view with greater depth of field (more is in focus).
What is wide-angle?
400
The mass communication theory that states that the more television people watch, the more likely they are to hold a view of reality that is closer to television's depiction of reality.
What is cultivation theory?
400
The first popular internet browser, created at the University of Illinois.
What is Mosaic?
400
"The more you know, the more you ___."
see
500
The positioning of individual elements so that a viewer naturally views one and then another element in the order desired by the designer.
What is sequencing?
500
A type of light that can refer to the light from the sun, candlelight, neon light bulbs and incandescent bulbs.
What is natural light?
500
A continuous picture in which the camera doesn’t stop.
What is a shot?
500
Social media websites were created in this web era.
What is Web 2.0?
500
How was the thief of Harvard's copy of the bible caught?
He didn't realize how heavy books were going to be and fell from a couple stories up, seriously injuring himself.