Design Ate It

Questions for MQ Sunday

11th January, 2009

Identify this military person.

Connect him to a well known poster (and/or marketing campaign)

Lord Kitchener was featured in a 1911 poster by Alfred Leete, in the London Opinion. This poster later inspired the American recruitment poster, which is, sadly, better known now.

A is the ‘hello world’ program in an esoteric programming language. What is the language called?

The second diagram, B, is a name, printed in this language. What name?

A B

A: Piet, the name of the language

B: Piet, again.

A B

Identify

Paul Rand, the designer.

Who is the designer of these disctinctive jazz record covers?

Jim Flora

The Bezier curve, Bezier surface and Bezier triangle, were all named and patented by Pierre Bezier, an influential computer scientist and engineer.

Who, and what did he make ‘cool’?

Alfred Shaheen took the then-tacky Hawaiian shirt to new found fashionista-dom during the middle of the last century, by making the Aloha shirt cool.

X was a standard developed by Apple in response to the standard used in Y, which was developed earlier by Adobe. X offered developers a higher degree of control.

X: Truetype

Y: PostScript

This was Storm Thorgeson’s first design for a now iconic Pink Floyd album cover.

Which one?

A bit of a floyd, this one…

This design of a pig flying over industrial England worked better, and then proceeded to become iconic.

Willie Nelson’s reggae album Countryman was ‘changed’ by Walmart (in 2005?).

What was the original picture?

The grass is always greener…

These photographs are from the Belgian Centre for Comic Art, in Brussels.

Who designed the museum?

Victor Horta, one of the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement.

This iconic poster was for a ‘nightclub’ in Paris. What are the words blanked out?

Who is the poster by?

Tournee du CHAT NOIR by Theophile Steinlein.

Walter Gropius’ house in Lincoln, MA.

Give a common word for all these ladies

‘Cherets’ after Jules Cheret, one of the fathers of the modern poster

Connect

The dancer Louise Weber, known as the outrageous La Goulue ("The Glutton"), who created the "French Can-Can"

Works by Milton Glasser

Logos of Metro Railway systems across the World