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graphic design hist1
Exam 1 Study Guide Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A British corollary to the French Symbolist movement in literature and the arts. Artists such as __ reveled in sensuality, mysticism, and beauty; it was sometimes disparagingly referred to as the __. | Aesthetic Movement |
| One of the first high-end quality sans serif typefaces, it was released by the German foundry Berthold in 1896. | Akzidenz Grotesk |
| The term denotes the geometric patterns that were popular part of the Art Nouveau style. | Arabesques |
| A composition structured in such a way that its forms are suggestive of the elements of __. | Architectonic |
| __ a late nineteenth-century decorative arts movement in Europe and the United States taht favored a unified design style based on organic forms, and featured a significant Asian, particularly Japanese, formal influence. | Art Nouveau |
| A late nineteenth-century decorative arts movement in Europe and the United States that rejected industrial production in favor of handcrafted goods with simple, often geometric, designs. | Arts and Crafts |
| An Art Nouveau typeface designed in 1901 by __ that displayed an Asian influence. | Auriol |
| 18th century traditional type design in England by __ | Baskerville |
| a roman typeface designed by __ in 1908 for AEG | Behrens-Antiqua |
| a decorative typeface by __ in the 1900s as a compromise between blackletter and art nouveau | Behrens-Fraktur |
| a typeface designed by __ in 1901 that combined elements of blackletter script and roman structure | Behrens-Schrift |
| a 15th century oldstyle type designed in venice by aldus manutius | Bembo |
| a subset of __ woodblock prints that showcase images of beautiful young woman, mainly courtesans | Bijin-ga |
| the general term for typefaces that resemble the form of medieval script; the positive space formed by black ink overwhelms the negative white space of the paper | Blackletter |
| a German art nouvaeu typeface designed by otto weisert in 1904 | Bocklin |
| 18th century modern type designed in italy by __ | Bodoni |
| 18th century transitional type designed in england by __ | Caslon |
| __ ; the process by which a colour image is reproduced using flat stones that have been drawn on with greasy ink or crayons. a separate stone is used for each colour. | Chromolithography |
| a design characterized by fluid __ lines. | Curvilinear |
| a german organization founded in munich in 1907 with the intent of raising the quality, both aesthetic and functional, of the nation's industrial production | Deutscher Werkbund |
| 18th century modern type designed in france by __ | Didot |
| a german typeface devised by __ in 1900 to reconcile art nouveau and blackletter elements | Eckmann |
| a unit of measure in typography that corresponds to the size of the frame around the letter. | Em Box |
| generally speaking any artistic style that focuses more on how something feels as opposed to how it looks. | Expressionism |
| the result of a drawing technique that allows for the accurate representation of elements perpendicular the the picture plane, such as a picture pointing at the viewer | Foreshortened |
| blackletter type characterized by __ forms that originated in germany in the 16th century, also used as a synonym for blackletter type | Fraktur |
| a high quality sans-serif typeface designed in 1902 by the american morris fuller benton | Franklin Gothic |
| 15th century old style type designed in france by __ | Garamond |
| a "total work of art" meaning a piece, originating with the music dramas of richard wagner that collapses every possible aesthetic experience into a unified whole | Gesamtkunstwerk |
| an alternative name for blackletter type that imitates medieval script; in the us, sans-serif. | Gothic |
| a synonym for sans-serif type commonly used in great britain and europe | Grotesque |
| a work that references styles from the past | Historicist |
| akin to a billboard, an exterior space such as a wall, for presentation of posters | Hoardings |
| a book printed before 1501 | Incunabula |
| type that slants elegantly upwards and to the right. | Italics |
| the euro especially fr adoption of __ during the late 19th century | Japonisme |
| 15th century old style type designed in venice by typographer __ | Jenson-Eusebius |
| a general term for a __ house and its employees that work "__ to __ " without apparent specialization or design training. | Job Printer |
| a german synonym for art nouveau meaning "young art," derived from the magazine __ . | Jugendstil |
| the spacing of the text so that the ends of lines are even | Justified |
| a viennese school dedicated to the theory and practice of the decorative arts. | Kunstgewerbeschule |
| printing technique whereby the ink is supported on a raised surface, such as the __ of metal type. | Letterpress |
| an industrial machine, developed in 1886 that facilitated mechanical typesetting by setting an entire line of type | Linotype |
| a visual symbol that identifies a given company or institution, such as a trademark | Logotypes |
| 18th century roman type that is characterized by extreme contrast in stroke thickness, staunchly vertical stress, and hairline serifs. | Modern type |
| an industrial machine, developed in 1889, that facilitated machanical typesetting by producing type character by character, thereby revolutionizing the field. | Monotype |
| roman type of the 15th and 16th centuries that is characterized by understated contrast, bracketed serifs, and oblique stress. | Old Style |
| a form in art that is derived from the actual world through its shape, which is often curving, irregular, and __ . | Organic Form |
| a design that is structured mostly with right angles, such as a grid | Orthogonal |
| a design dominated by flat __ | Planar |
| a design characterized by straight lines | Rectilinear |
| an 18th century unified design style that featured exuberant color, sinous forms, and an overall emphasis on a sensual atmosphere | Rococo |
| a typeface style dating from the renaissance, originally derived from carolingian minuscule, __ letters feature serifs. | Roman |
| the process of highlighting words through utilization of colored inks | Rubrication |
| a roman letter typeface that does __ feature __ | Sans Serif |
| blackletter type germany 15th c | Schwabacher |
| __ , art nouveau in vienna | Secessionstil |
| a type with heavy rectangular __ | Slab Serif |
| uppercase, equal size to x height | Small Capitals |
| angle of the major axis in which the strokes of the letter are structured, not the angle of the strokes themselves | Stress |
| appear to be structured around a set __ or group of compositional rules | Stylized |
| late 19th c movement based in france, focused on spirituality, sensuality, and the artistic subjective experience of the world | Symbolist |
| a kind of early blackletter used in the guttenberg | Textura |
| 17th c roman type characterized by vertical stress significant contrast wide proportions and thin elegant serifs. | Transitional |
| pictures of the floating world, __ woodblock prints, actors courtisans and landscapes | Ukiyo-e |
| blackletter introduced in 1793 by __ who attempted to adopt the geometric structures of modern style roman type | Unger-Fraktur |
| __ rejected conservatives | Vienna Secession |
| a stylist element of art nouveau, a __ , pent up energy of a __ in mid air | Whiplash Curve |
| the __ a group of artists spun off of the __ secession that wanted raise the quality of austrian decorative arts | Wiener Werkstatte |
| relief printing in which the image is carved into a block of __ to facilitate reproduction | Woodcut |
| a standardized type measurement based on the size a lowercase letter | X Height |
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