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The graphic design Christmas quiz

On December 12 Design Assembly presented the graphic design Christmas pub quiz.

Due to popular demand here are the questions asked on the night. Feel free to tell me anything I got wrong. A simple Google will find any answers you're stuck on.

We plan to do another quiz in 2012, thanks to those who came.


Round Two: General Graphic Knowledge

One: Who designed the Deutsche Bank Logo?

Bonus: In what year?


Two. What size is a B2 sheet?


Three. Who designed the 2010 home England football shirt?


Four. What year did Macromedia launch Flash?


Five. What’s the name of The Michellin Man?


Six. Which famous artist patented his colour “international blue”?

Bonus point for the RGB value within 20 either side 


Seven. How many horizontal bars are there in the IBM logo?


Eight. Who designed the typeface Gotham?


Nine. Who created HTML and is known as the Father of the Web?


Ten. Who wrote the book “It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be”


Eleven. How many millimeters in a pica?


I’ll take one decimal point

Bonus for anyone who can get two decimal points.


Twelve. Who was the original software publisher who released Freehand 1?

Bonus for which year.


Thirteen. What nationality was Hebert Bayer? 

Bonus point for the year he was born


Fourteen. Which fashion designer used the distinctive airmail edging on their paper dress from 1999? 


Fifteen. Which American designer said “Design is everything. Everything!”



Round Three: Music Design Round

One: Who designed the Rolling Stones album cover Let It Bleed, for which the original artwork has just sold at auction.

Bonus point for object the cover features.


Two. Which graphic designer releases music under the alias Playgroup?


Three. What album cover features a silver plane tale with the bands name on?


Four. What does the cover for Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here feature?

Bonus: Who designed it?


Five. Which 1995 album features a shark jaw bone round a speaker?

Bonus point for the label it was released on.


Six. Name the artist  or title of the floral painting which Peter Saville used on the New Order sleeve for Power, Corruption & Lies?


Seven. Which agency is repsonsiable for the cover of the Oasis debut “Defintily Maybe”?


Eight. What does the Massive Attack Mezzannine cover feature?

Bonus: Which photographer took the shots


Nine. What animals appear on the cover of Beach Boys pet sounds?


Ten. How many colours does the Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks cover feature?

Bonus: name them.



Round Four: 21st Century Design

One: Which city was the Apple designer Jonathan Ive born in? Bonus: The exact part of said city


Two. What piece of digital work won a 2011 D&AD black pencil?


Three. Which city are the agency 2x4 based in?


Four. In which year did the refreshed design of the BP Logo known as the Helios flower launch?

Bonus: Which agency designed it?


Five. Name one of the founders of the influential design blog Design Observer?


Six. What operating system does the Nokie Lumia run?


Seven. What is a digital skeuomorph?


Eight. Who designed the 2012 Olympics aquatic centre?

Bonus: The architects place of birth


Nine. Name a typeface by the foundry Klim?

Bonus: Who owns, designs and runs Klim?


Ten. Name two of the three items the Apple Mail icon features?

Bonus: What wording does it also feature?