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16 Cards in this Set
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Vernacular
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Refers to a style or source that is ordinary, as opposed to artistically exalted.
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Pop Art
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An art movement that rose to prominence in the 1960s in Britain and the United States, focusing on aspects of popular culture that had traditionally been ignored by fine artists, such as consumerism, comic books, and celebrity.
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Rebus
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The representation of a word by a picture that creates the same sound; for example, when the American designer Paul Rand used drawing of a bee in place of the letter "B" in a version of the classic IBM logo.
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Appropriation
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To borrow; this term refers to the way in which postmodern artists often borrow imagery from outside the art and design worlds and include them in their work.
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Situationist Internationale
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A Marxist influenced French avant-garde group that arose in 1957 and played a major role in the events of May 1968.
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Punk
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A young subculture that arose in the 1970s and adopted a staunchly oppositional attitude toward mainstream culture. Punk is often associated with the raw, unpolished, and anti-authoritarian music of the same name.
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New Wave
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A term that developed out of the Punk music scene. New Wave later became associated with a type of diluted mainstreaming of Punk culture. Often used in reference both to late 1970s electronic pop music as well as to the punchy, colorful graphics of that era.
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Bit-mapped
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____ are made up of an array of pixels (tiny dots); they do not have the smooth, unbroken contours of earlier type. For this reason, 1980s ___type had very low resolution, and the coarse letterforms could not be scaled outside a limited range.
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Bézier curve
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A digital smoothing algorithm used in vector graphics and animation.
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Grunge
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An unofficial category describing contemporary graphic design that appears in a holistic sense to be unpolished, grungy, and scruffy.
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Mai Soixante-Huit
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A French term alluding to the widespread civil unrest that shook the country in May 1968.
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Street art
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Any manifestation of unofficial art in public spaces. Street art can take many forms, including graffiti, sticker, and installations.
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Détournement
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Literally, "deflection or redirection," a strategy pioneered by the Situationists of subverting idea or images so as to undermine their authority.
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Wild Style
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Graffiti letterforms that are exuberantly expressive and visually complex. The individual letters are often woven together.
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Raster image
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An image made up of a bit-mapped grid of pixels.
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Open Type
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A font formant that allows for cross-platform utilization and increased flexibility versus its predecessors PostScript and TrueType; OpenType was developed by Adobe and Microsoft, and released in 2000.
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