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The application of artistic principles to the design of useful objects combines the aesthetic with the practical.
14 quizzes and 144 trivia questions.
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Fabric Fascination
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Photo Match
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Match the Fabric Patterns
The clothing world has long held onto classic patterns that continuously catch the eye from generation to generation. See if you can recognize these 12 patterns. (Click the images to get a closer look!)
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A Font of Knowledge
  A "Font" of Knowledge   best quiz  
Photo Match
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Various Fonts & Typefaces
We use them every day as we are bombarded with various words. You are even engaging with one right now at this very moment. Match these 12 fonts, which are all used in Microsoft Word, with their correct names. (Click the images to get a closer look!)
Average, 12 Qns, trident, Feb 17 24
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Living in the Material World
  Living in the Material World   popular trivia quiz  
Photo Quiz
 10 Qns
The advent of cloth moved the world's population into a new world in which there was something else to use for garments other than leather and fur. A variety of looms, filaments, dyes, and weaving techniques led to the creation of many types of fabrics.
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Is It Under the Couch
  Is It Under the Couch?    
Photo Quiz
 10 Qns
So, you lost your breadbox. Of course, you have a breadbox, how else do you know something's size? Could it be hiding under the couch? Here is a quiz to help you identify your couch's style, and see if that pesky breadbox is hiding underneath.
Average, 10 Qns, adam36, May 30 14
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A Pattern is a Pattern
  A Pattern is a Pattern    
Photo Quiz
 10 Qns
There are many textiles used in the world, each with a different pattern. Use the photo hints to figure out which patterns are described in this quiz. Good luck!
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Eminence Font
  Eminence Font   great trivia quiz  
Photo Quiz
 10 Qns
Once upon a time, long, long ago, only a handful of fonts were installed on computers. This quiz will see if you can identify these typefaces, using the images and clues provided. Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, PootyPootwell, Feb 16 18
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  Textiles, Fabric, Print Methods of Fabric    
Multiple Choice
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As part of Amazing Race 2 we will go around the world looking at different fabrics, textiles and traditional printing methods.
Average, 10 Qns, ClaudiaCat, Oct 04 13
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  Marie Antoinette's Watch   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The story of Marie Antoinette's watch is as full of romance and tragedy as the life of the queen herself.
Average, 10 Qns, janetgool, Aug 10 21
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  Go Off and Dye Somewhere   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
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If clothes make the man, then dye makes the clothes. This quiz, the result of a challenge from the always inventive and clever kyleisalive, is about dyeing with dignity.
Average, 10 Qns, Correspondguy, Feb 13 15
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  The Möbius strip and Other Impossible Figures    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The Möbius strip is a famous example of a figure that doesn't comply with everyday geometry. What do you know about it and other, similar objects and how they're featured in art?
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trivia question Quick Question
The days of natural indigo disappeared when synthetic indigo dye was developed. When did a commercially practical synthetic indigo appear?

From Quiz "Indigo: A Natural Dye Helped by Something Gross"




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  Indigo: A Natural Dye Helped by Something Gross    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Don't look down! You might be wearing something dyed with indigo right now! But your blue jeans use the synthetic dye. This quiz is about the unique history and interesting process of the natural dye.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup, Nov 27 16
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  The Times New Roman Empire    
Multiple Choice
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Times New Roman is one of many well known typefaces. Test how much you know about some typefaces with this quiz!
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  Dieter Rams and the Good Design    
Multiple Choice
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Dieter Rams is one of the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century. He introduced the idea of "good design" by forming his ten famous principles.
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  I Shot Sans Serif    
Multiple Choice
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Questions about fonts/typefaces, their designers and uses.
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Design Applied Art Trivia Questions

1. When you pull wool, cotton or silk out of the indigo dyebath, what color does it appear at first? This is the part of indigo dying that seems magical, until you're used to it.

From Quiz
Indigo: A Natural Dye Helped by Something Gross

Answer: yellowish, green then blue

Indigo dye must combine with oxygen before it shows blue, so when the fiber to be dyed is first brought into the air, it's whitish or pale yellow. As it picks up oxygen from the air, it turns into the blue indigo we're expecting to see. The magical transformation is unusual in natural dyes, which usually appear a little darker than their final shade. The color of a brown or red may need to be darker when it comes out of the vat, to compensate for the fabric being washed out and dried, but the color change is nothing like indigo's.

2. Helvetica is one of the most widely used fonts but do you know what Helvetica means in Latin?

From Quiz The Times New Roman Empire

Answer: Swiss

Helvitca was created in 1957 by the Swiss designers Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. It was originally called Neue Haas Grotesk but the name was changed to Helvetica, after the home country of its designers, in 1960 in order to market the font internationally.

3. What design discipline is Dieter Rams famous for?

From Quiz Dieter Rams and the Good Design

Answer: industrial design

Dieter Rams gained fame for designing a large number of consumer products, such as record players, coffee makers, calculators or audio/visual equipment. Many of his designs are displayed in museums around the world.

4. Sans Serif fonts are ones that do not have "feet" or "tails" on each character. During what time period were they first introduced in printed media?

From Quiz I Shot Sans Serif

Answer: 1800-1820

Although some ancient civilizations used sans serif styled characters, they did not appear in modern print media until sometime in the early 19th century.

5. Who ordered the watch known as the "Marie Antoinette"?

From Quiz Marie Antoinette's Watch

Answer: A member of the queen's guard

Count Hans Axel Von Fersen was born in 1755 in Stockholm, and died in 1820 in that same city. A handsome and well-educated man, he took part in some of the most exciting events of his day. In 1779 he joined the French military. When General Rochambeau traveled to America to assist General George Washington, Von Fersen accompanied him as a translator. After returning to France von Fersen joined the Queen's Guard, and became Marie Antoinette's lover. It was during this period that he ordered the famous time-piece. Von Fersen proved to be a real friend to the royal family. He ordered the carriage used in their unsuccessful attempt to escape from Paris, and even served as their coachman. (The Wikipedia was the source for this information.)

6. The term Möbius strip comes from the person who discovered it. What was his name?

From Quiz The Möbius strip and Other Impossible Figures

Answer: Ferdinand Mobius

Johann Benedict Listing was the partner of Ferdinand Möbius, but they named it after Ferdinand. It was discovered in 1858. A Möbius strip is an infinite loop, and is impossible to make naturally in reality (although, you can make one by making a paper loop, cutting through a segment, twisting it, and stapling the result).

7. What young, female botanist introduced indigo as a cash crop to colonial South Carolina, making it second only to rice? Based on her name, she should have promoted a light red dye rather than blue.

From Quiz Indigo: A Natural Dye Helped by Something Gross

Answer: Eliza Lucas Pinckney

Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) experimented in the early 1740s with seed her father sent her while he was away in Antigua, and with the help of some of her slaves who had grown indigo in the West Indies and west Africa, who never get any credit by name, she produced a seed crop in 1844 to distrubute. By 1748, South Carolina was exporting 130,000 pounds of indigo, and the amount continued to increase, adding significantly to the wealth of the state.

8. Gothic typefaces are also known by which other name?

From Quiz The Times New Roman Empire

Answer: Blackletter

Gothic or blackletter typefaces are based on the writing style used in Western Europe between the 12th and 17th centuries. These typefaces are sometimes incorrectly referred to as Fraktur typefaces after a popular gothic typeface called Fraktur; however, this name refers just to the specific typeface and not the blackletter typefaces in general.

9. This hand printed fabric technique is very popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Azerbaijan, Thailand and China. It is printed with the use of melted wax. What technique is this?

From Quiz Textiles, Fabric, Print Methods of Fabric

Answer: Batik

Batik has special significance and is involved in lots of aspects of the culture and the people's lives including dress, decoration, religious and ceremonial, funeral and birth. The way batik prints are made is with the use of melted wax. Two waxes are used: beeswax so that the fabric won't be dyed where it is applied, and paraffin wax which allows the dye to penetrate through the cracking of the wax. The process will depend on the number of colours in the Batik, having to apply the wax for each colour.

10. When still a child, Dieter Rams was deeply impressed by the work of a relative who had a big impact on Rams' later career aspirations. Who was this relative and what was his/her profession?

From Quiz Dieter Rams and the Good Design

Answer: his grandfather was a carpenter

Dieter Rams was born May 20, 1932 in Wiesbaden, Germany. As a boy he loved to watch his grandfather at work as a carpenter. In 1947 he began studies in architecture and interior decoration at Wiesbaden School of Art and later interrupted his studies to become an apprentice carpenter.

11. What designer or foundry used the term "Sans Serif" in 1830?

From Quiz I Shot Sans Serif

Answer: Figgins Foundry

Early forms of Sans Serif fonts were called Egyptian or Antique.

12. Which famous clockmaker made the Marie Antoinette watch?

From Quiz Marie Antoinette's Watch

Answer: Abraham-Louis Breguet

Abraham-Louis Breguet was born in 1747 in Switzerland. At the age of fifteen he came to France, where he was apprenticed to a clockmaker. Breguet is considered one of the leading clockmakers of all time. He is responsible for many technological inventions, such as the perpetual clock, and anti-shock devices. He is also considered an artist, and one of the first to make a clock a thing of beauty. (The Wikipedia was the source for this answer.)

13. Eric Gill designed which well used typeface?

From Quiz The Times New Roman Empire

Answer: Gill Sans

The British designer Eric Gill created Gill Sans in 1926. It became a well used font in the UK and was used by the rail company LNER for their posters and timetables as well as on the covers of books published by Penguin.

14. This dyeing method has been around for centuries, but it reached new heights of popularity in the 1960s with the hippy movement. What dyeing method is it

From Quiz Textiles, Fabric, Print Methods of Fabric

Answer: Tie dyeing

Tie dyeing has been found in the Americas, Asia and Africa with samples dating back over 2,000 years. Tie dyeing was especially popular with the hippy generation, and was applied to garments such as T-shirts, wrap around skirts, jackets and pants, as well as other decorative articles such as scarves, wraps, bedding and the like. Tie dyeing is an easy technique where you scrunch and twine different areas of the fabric before you dye it. When the garment is unwrapped and untied, the dye will be in some places and not others, leaving interesting patterns.

15. As a designer - which German company is Dieter Rams most closely associated with?

From Quiz Dieter Rams and the Good Design

Answer: Braun

Dieter Rams was Chief of Design for Braun from 1961 to 1995. Among many other products, he was responsible for the famous SK-4 record player and the renowned D-series of 35 mm film slide projectors.

16. Many typefaces are identified with the name of a typographer or designer. Which one is not?

From Quiz I Shot Sans Serif

Answer: Courier

Courier was designed by Howard Kettler for use in IBM typewriters.

17. A famous artist was fascinated with the Möbius strip as well as other impossibilities. He put them in many pieces of his art. Who was he?

From Quiz The Möbius strip and Other Impossible Figures

Answer: M. C. Escher

M.C. Escher made a multitude of lithographs and woodcuts, including pieces on the Möbius strip. His most well-known pieces include "Waterfall" and "Relativity".

18. In which decade was Times New Roman created for the British newspaper 'The Times'?

From Quiz The Times New Roman Empire

Answer: 1930s

Times New Roman was first used in 'The Times' on 3rd October 1932. The typeface was designed by Stanley Morrison and Victor Lardent. Although Times New Roman is still a widely used font it has not been used by 'The Times' newspaper since 1972.

19. The Irish are known for having healthy cottage industries and handcrafts. There is Waterford Crystal, Spode porcelain and this healthy natural fabric industry. What is it?

From Quiz Textiles, Fabric, Print Methods of Fabric

Answer: Irish linen

Irish linen is regarded as one of the best linen in the world. Linen is made from the flax plant, whose fibre is spun into thread before being woven into cloth. To be considered Irish linen it must be approved by the Irish Linen Guild.

20. Dieter Rams is also known for designing a universal shelving system for a furniture company which has won several design awards and is part of the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. What's the name of this company?

From Quiz Dieter Rams and the Good Design

Answer: Vitsoe

While working for Braun, he was allowed to work on side projects. One of those projects was designing the 606 Universal Shelving System for Vitsoe in 1960. This system found its way to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The corresponding chair system 620 Chair Programme (designed by Rams in 1962) is now part of the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

21. What differentiates OpenType fonts from Postscript or Truetype?

From Quiz I Shot Sans Serif

Answer: They may contain over 65,000 glyphs and be used on both Mac and PC computers

OpenType font format was developed by Adobe and Microsoft, built from the TrueType model with changes and additions that allow for extensive character additions and choices by the user.

22. When was Marie Antoinette actually presented with the famous watch?

From Quiz Marie Antoinette's Watch

Answer: She was executed before the watch was finished

Count Von Fersen ordered the watch from Breguet in 1783. Ten years later Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. It wasn't until 1827, a full forty-four years after the order was placed, that Breguet completed his masterpiece. Needless to say, the French queen never saw the gift ordered by her lover.

23. What kind of work was indigo processing in colonial South Carolina -- hard, easy?

From Quiz Indigo: A Natural Dye Helped by Something Gross

Answer: horribly stinky, potentially unheathful

Processing indigo required fermenting it, which produced an awful odor, which processors -- generally slaves -- had to be around constantly, even standing in vats to mash them down. John Woolman, an abolitionist Quaker, refused to weear dyed cloth, believing that slaves suffered health damage while dying it. James Roberts, a Revolutionary War soldier, wrote, "Such is the effect of the indigo upon the lungs of the laborers, that they never live over seven years." However, historians failed to find a statistical correlation with a shorter lifespan or more diseases, though all agree the smell is awful, and further work may point out health problems. (Credit to "The Devil's Blue Dye: Indigo and Slavery" by Jean M. West)

24. Which two comic books inspired the designer of Comic Sans?

From Quiz The Times New Roman Empire

Answer: 'The Dark Knight Returns' and 'Watchmen'

Vincent Connare, a font designer for Microsoft, designed Comic Sans as a more appropriate font for use in speech bubbles in 'Microsoft Bob'; however, Comic Sans was not used in this program as the font was not completed in time. To get inspiration for the font, Connare used the two comic books he happened to have on desk at the time which were 'The Dark Knight Returns' and 'Watchmen'.

25. Kerning is a common term used in typesetting. What does it refer to?

From Quiz I Shot Sans Serif

Answer: Specific spacing between pairs of letters

Kerning adjusts the spacing between certain pairs of letters to make the text more visually consistent.

26. In one-dimensional geometry, what quantity of sides would be impossible?

From Quiz The Möbius strip and Other Impossible Figures

Answer: 1 & One & Zero & 0 & Two & 2

A one-sided shape would just be a line, and therefore isn't a shape at all. I don't think I need to explain why there can't be a shape with zero sides!

27. Indigo growing spread all over the world, but until natural indigo was replaced with synthetic, one country's dye was considered the best and sold for higher prices than others. What was it?

From Quiz Indigo: A Natural Dye Helped by Something Gross

Answer: India

India was the original place where true indigo, Indigofera tinctoria, was found, but seeds for the same genus and species were spread worldwide and much effort was put into perfecting cultivation and breeding the best plants by countries around the world. Still, India held its reputation as the producer of the best dye. Among the New World colonies, Guatemalan and French West Indies indigo was considered superior, but it still couldn't surpass India's.

28. Serif typefaces are also known by which other name?

From Quiz The Times New Roman Empire

Answer: Roman typefaces

A serif is a little line present at the edges of letters in some typefaces. They often look like little flicks or tails. Times New Roman as an example of a serif or Roman typeface. They are sometimes called Roman typefaces because they are based on capitals used in writing in ancient Rome and minuscules (non-capitals) used in the Holy Roman Empire.

29. In 1981, Dieter Rams became professor for industrial design. Where?

From Quiz Dieter Rams and the Good Design

Answer: University of Fine Arts of Hamburg

Dieter Rams worked from 1981 to 1997 as a professor for industrial design at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. From 1987 to 1997 he presided over the German Design Council (Rat für Formgebung).

30. Ligatures, outside of typesetting, are used to tie things up, or, usually in a crime setting, to strangle a person. What does a ligature do as it relates to fonts and type?

From Quiz I Shot Sans Serif

Answer: Certain combinations of letters are changed to a single character

A ligature pair such as "ff" or "fi" will connect the strokes of the characters. If involving an "i" the dot is removed as part of the connection.

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