Graphic Design Test
Graphic Design Test
Graphic Design Test
1. What Gestalt property do websites like Amazon.com use to tell computers and humans
apart using CAPTTTCHA technology?
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3. We don’t talk about thickness with regard to lines or type... instead we use the term
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4. This element of design has more to do with our sense of touch but it can add interest to
dull areas and isomorphism says we respond to imagery based on our past experience
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9. Shape comes in two basic types, organic and? ________________________.
10. In describing “Space” we use two opposite terms for when it is filled with an object
and when it is not. What are they?
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Bonus: There is a third term more commonly used as well. Does the paper have to be
white? Explain...
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11. While everyones process is different, the first 2 steps of the “creative process” as
described in class are
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...the second step involves getting your ideas on paper in the form of
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12. What result do you get from mixing red and green in your RGB computer image?
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14. The primary colors used in the CMYK color system are
15. In RGB, 100% of all primary colors [R255 G255 B255] is what color?
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16. __________________________ is a word that relates to “Visible Spectrum” but instead
of describing all the colors we can see, it describes a smaller range that a color system
can produce. This is significant because CMYK’s is significantly smaller than RGB’s.
Bonus* What part of CMYK’s is the weakest______________________________
17. So what gives colors their color? You have different mediums like crayon, paint, or
markers, what is in those things that reflects light and gives them color?
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18. People say “Pantone” color when they mean “Spot Color.” Explain the difference.
Bonus* Can you name another “product” like this?
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20.Given that the people on the ground can see and understand this artwork.
Which property of Gestalt does that demonstrate
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Bonus:
Can you name the third “Law” I said was important to type setting __________________
Analyze this
This is a powerful and... gruesome? hopeful? image...
the question as always is what choices did the artist make... to make you
feel... to tell a story... to make this piece powerful. Please give me a
paragraph of about 150-200 words (not hard this paragraph is over 100
words) analyzing this work of art in terms of Elements and Principles of de-
sign and Gestalt principles, just as you have done in discussons. This image
is rich in concept and should be ideal for analysis.
Prompts to think about. How is your eye led around this composition.
How is “Continuation” used? (a number of ways). How are color and texture
being used? Can we tell anything about the subjects story from clothing,
posture etc?.. What do you make of the imagery on the right?