Deck 16: The Design Profession

Question 1

The first fins to appear on an automobile were on the 1959 Cadillac Fleetwood.Its designer,Harley Earl,was inspired by

A)designs he had seen coming out of the Bauhaus school.
B)Frank Lloyd Wright.
C)the design of the P-38 "Lightning" fighter plane.
D)Art Nouveau design.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Cassandre's Dubonnet advertisement is a good example of

A)Art Nouveau design.
B)Constructivist design.
C)Bauhaus design.
D)De Stijl design.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The designer of Does It Make Sense?,April Greiman,is a pioneer in the field of

A)automobile design.
B)the use of traditional media in advertising.
C)postmodern architecture.
D)digital technology in advertising.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Name two designers who were a major influence in American "organic design."

Question 5

The Bauhaus

A)was designed by Le Corbusier.
B)was designed by Mies van der Rohe.
C)was an influential design school in Germany.
D)was the name of a Dutch architecture style in the 1930s.

Question 6

In 1919,in Weimar,Germany,who founded the influential design school Bauhaus?

A)Le Corbusier
B)Walter Gropius
C)Alexander Rodchenko
D)Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 7

The Burlington Zephyr sparked American interest in which design style?

Question 8

Charles and Ray Eames' Side chair,model DCM demonstrates which feature of design in the 1940s and 1950s?

A)streamlined design
B)curvilinear design
C)architectural design
D)Constructivist design

Question 9

Design as a profession can be traced back to the beginnings of the industrial age,where it originated largely in opposition to what?

Question 10

Le Corbusier was an architect and designer who prioritized

A)the handmade and organic.
B)the manufactured and modular.
C)custom designs for wealthy patrons.
D)inexpensive versions of modern designs.

Question 11

Gerrit Rietveld's famous Red and Blue Chair is a summation of which principle of design?

A)Art Nouveau
B)Bauhaus
C)De Stijl
D)Arts and Crafts

Question 12

Which nineteenth-century building by Joseph Paxton could be considered an early example of the relationship between new technology and architecture?

A)the Red House
B)the Palais Stoclet
C)the Houses of Parliament
D)the Crystal Palace

Question 13

American glassmaker Louis Comfort Tiffany inspired which design movement?

A)Art Nouveau
B)De Stijl
C)Art Deco
D)Constructivism

Question 14

Where was Constructivism developed?

A)Germany
B)the United States
C)Russia
D)Engand

Question 15

To Walter Gropius,the founder of the Bauhaus school,what was the ultimate creative activity?

A)painting
B)drawing
C)architecture
D)sculpture

Question 16

The Arts and Crafts Movement was started in England by

A)Louis Comfort Tiffany.
B)William Morris.
C)Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.
D)A)W.N.Pugin.

Question 17

Chris Strach's Apple logo represents stylistic pluralism.What are some other examples of stylistic pluralism? How have they been subtly changed to fit needs while maintaining their corporate identity?

Question 18

What were the visual characteristics of art and design produced by the Dutch art group known as De Stijl?

A)They eliminated all colors except primaries and black and white.
B)There were no straight lines in their work.
C)They made only political art.
D)They made conceptual works only.

Question 19

Artists working in the post-revolutionary Soviet state were referred to as what?

Question 20

The page opening of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Newly Augmented was designed by

A)Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
B)Frank Lloyd Wright.
C)Jan Toorop.
D)William Morris.

Question 21

Marcel Breuer's Armchair,model B3 is considered a masterpiece of design.Though built in 1925,it maintains a modern appearance.The 1939 Chrysler Airflow,by contrast,seems to be an antique.What makes one design appear contemporary and the other outdated?

Question 22

Art Moderne (Art Deco)had a totally separate evolution from streamlining,yet some objects share similar visual characteristics.What are the similarities and where do they end?