1. What did Alois Senenfelder invent? Basically how does it work? How did it revolutionize design and printing?
2. What city was the center of the chromolithography in America?
3. What was the Arts and Crafts movement? What designer is generally credited with creating and propagating it? What did it develop in reaction and opposition to?
4. What is the name of the press established by William Morris?
5. What is Ukiyo-e? Who were some of its principal artists? How did it influence Western design?
6. What was the name given to the influence that Japanese art exerted over Western art and design?
7. What was Art Nouveau? What were its stylistic tendencies?
8. Which designer’s name and style was said to be synonymous with Art Nouveau?
9. What is meant by the phrase “form follows function”? Who are some of the designers most closely associated with the idea?
10. What is the name given to the student (and, to a lesser extent, faculty) revolt that shut down the Kunstlerhaus in the capital of Austria?
11. Who was Peter Behrens and why is he so important in the history of design?
12. What is the name given to the German poster design movement that influenced European design in the early 1900’s?
13. What is meant by the term avant-garde in relation to Art? Which avant-garde art movements most influenced twentieth century design?
14. Who are the two painters credited with creating Cubism?
15. What was Suprematism and what design movement grew out of it? What were some of the hallmarks of this design movement?
16. What was the name of the geometry obsessed, largely Netherlandish design movement that developed at the same time as (and often in conjunction with) Constructivism?
17. What German design school and movement proved to be the most influential of the twentieth century? What were some of its major ideas? Who were some of its most important teachers/designers?
18. Who was the founder of the Bauhaus?
19. What was the “new typography”? Who was its primary founder? While it was inspired by Bauhaus type theory, what are its major differences?
20. What design movement grew out of a desire to create “a world language without words” that could speak to all people?
