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Mexico 1968 Olympic design quiz: graphics and identity

Quick, free 1968 Olympics poster quiz. Instant results.

Editorial: Review CompletedCreated By: Igothika EvangelUpdated Aug 24, 2025
Difficulty: Moderate
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This quiz helps you check what you know about Mexico 1968 Olympic design, from the logo and type to posters and wayfinding. Answer quick questions, get instant feedback, and firm up key movements and names. If you want more practice, try our design principles quiz, the elements of design quiz, or an infographic design quiz.

Which printing method, invented in 1796, became widely used for mass poster production in the late 19th century?
Gravure
Letterpress
Screen printing
Lithography
Lithography, invented by Alois Senefelder in 1796, relies on the immiscibility of oil and water to transfer ink from a stone or metal plate onto paper. Its ability to produce detailed images made it dominant in poster printing during the 19th century. This method laid the groundwork for color lithography and chromolithography techniques. .
Who is considered the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement which influenced 19th-century graphic design?
William Morris
Gustave Doré
John Ruskin
Walter Crane
William Morris established the Arts and Crafts movement in the late 19th century as a response to industrial mass production, emphasizing handcrafted beauty and functional design. His Kelmscott Press showcased high-quality typography and ornamentation that remains influential in graphic design history. .
What technique involves using multiple stones or plates to add color to prints?
Chromolithography
Aquatint
Monoprint
Serigraphy
Chromolithography is a color printing technique that uses a series of lithographic stones or plates, each inked with a different color, to build up a multi-colored image. It became widespread in the mid-19th century for posters, advertisements, and fine art prints. .
The Belle Époque poster art of Paris in the late 19th century was heavily associated with which subjects in its imagery?
Landscapes
Cabaret performers
Ballet dancers
Historical battle scenes
Paris's Belle Époque era saw posters celebrating the vibrant nightlife of cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge, featuring colorful portrayals of dancers and singers. Artists like Jules Chéret popularized these images to entice city-goers. .
What is the name of the French painter and poster artist known as the father of the modern poster?
Jules Chéret
Alphonse Mucha
Édouard Manet
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Jules Chéret revolutionized poster art in the late 19th century with vibrant color lithographs and dynamic compositions, earning him the title 'father of the modern poster.' His work set stylistic benchmarks for later artists. .
Which typeface style, characterized by decorative serifs, emerged in the 19th century?
Script
Slab serif
Fraktur
Blackletter
Slab serif typefaces, sometimes called 'Egyptian' or 'fat face' styles, feature thick, block-like serifs and high contrast strokes. They became popular for headlines and posters in the 19th century due to their visual impact. .
What does the term 'chromolithography' literally mean?
Multi-color stone printing
Color cutting
Color engraving
Stone printing
Derived from Greek, 'chroma' means color and 'lithography' means stone printing. Chromolithography thus refers to multi-color printing using lithographic stones. .
Which design movement emphasized craftsmanship and simple forms as a reaction against industrial over-decoration?
Baroque
Bauhaus
Art Nouveau
Arts and Crafts
The Arts and Crafts movement, led by figures like William Morris, championed handcraftsmanship and functional design, opposing the ornate excesses of industrial mass production. Its principles influenced graphic and decorative arts. .
Who wrote 'The Stones of Venice', influencing 19th-century design aesthetics?
John Ruskin
James McNeill Whistler
William Morris
Walter Pater
'The Stones of Venice' by John Ruskin (1851 - 53) analyzed Venetian Gothic architecture and inspired revivalist design in the mid-19th century, affecting decoration, typography, and layout. .
In 19th-century graphic design, what was the primary use of wood engraving?
Poster printing
Textile patterns
Newspaper illustrations
Banknotes
Wood engraving allowed newspapers and periodicals to include detailed images inline with text, improving mass communication in the 19th century. It remained dominant until photoengraving techniques emerged. .
Which medium saw a significant advancement with the invention of the halftone process in the late 19th century?
Newspaper reproduction
Screen printing
Woodcut
Photography
The halftone process, introduced in the 1870s and refined by the 1880s, enabled continuous-tone photographic images to be reproduced in newspapers and magazines using dots of varying size. .
Which element did the Arts and Crafts movement often include in its graphic works?
Futuristic motifs
Photorealistic imagery
Geometric abstraction
Ornamental floral patterns
Arts and Crafts graphic designs frequently featured stylized floral and foliate patterns inspired by medieval and nature forms, reflecting the movement's emphasis on natural beauty and craftsmanship. .
Which 19th-century artist was famous for detailed wood-engraved book illustrations including 'The Divine Comedy'?
Gustave Doré
Albrecht Dürer
John Tenniel
William Blake
Gustave Doré's dramatic wood engravings for 'The Divine Comedy' (1861) showcased his mastery of light, shadow, and narrative detail, influencing subsequent book illustration. .
What color printing advance did chromolithography bring to graphic design?
Vivid multi-color images
Four-color process
Black and white only
Textured backgrounds
Chromolithography enabled bright, multi-layered color images that were richer than earlier hand-colored prints, making it the method of choice for vibrant 19th-century posters and illustrations. .
Which German art movement in the late 19th century featured bold, decorative metalwork and influenced graphic design?
Expressionism
Jugendstil
Dada
Constructivism
Jugendstil, Germany's version of Art Nouveau, appeared in graphic and decorative arts, with floral motifs and flowing lines that influenced typography and poster design around 1900. .
Which material innovation allowed for faster reproduction of images via photoengraving?
Plastic sheets
Wooden blocks
Glass plates
Aluminum plates
Photoengraving processes used photographic glass plate negatives to etch printing plates rapidly, replacing slower wood engraving methods and enabling high-detail image reproduction. .
Which design movement's graphic style is characterized by whiplash lines, organic shapes, and female figures often with flowing hair?
Bauhaus
Art Nouveau
Neoclassicism
Arts and Crafts
Art Nouveau, popular in the 1890s - 1910s, features sinuous lines, stylized natural forms, and elegant women with cascading hair, influencing posters, ads, and book illustrations. .
Which literary work was famously published by William Morris's Kelmscott Press?
Leaves of Grass
Utopia
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Kelmscott Press's crowning achievement was Morris's 1896 edition of 'The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer', celebrated for its ornate woodcut borders and custom 'Golden' type. .
Which German designer published typographic posters in Berlin around 1900 that influenced modern graphic identity?
Peter Behrens
Otto Eckmann
Josef Hoffmann
Koloman Moser
Peter Behrens's posters for AEG and other clients employed stark geometry and bold type, prefiguring corporate identity design in the 20th century. .
What was the main innovation of Jules Chéret's 'La Loïe Fuller' poster in 1893?
Use of dynamic color
Introduction of lithographic stones
First use of halftone
Emphasis on flat planes and bold outlines
In 'La Loïe Fuller', Chéret flattened depth and used bold outlines and large areas of color to capture the dancer's movement, advancing poster design toward modern flat-color aesthetics. .
The typeface Bodoni influenced which 19th-century typographic trend?
Slab serifs
Script faces
Fat faces
Sans serifs
Bodoni's high-contrast strokes inspired the 'fat face' style - very bold, high-contrast serif typefaces - widespread in 19th-century posters and headlines. .
Which process replaced wood engraving for newspaper illustrations by the end of the 19th century?
Serigraphy
Aquatint
Lithography
Photoengraving
Photoengraving used photographic techniques and acids to etch metal plates, enabling faster, more accurate reproduction of illustrations in newspapers than wood engraving. .
Who designed the typeface 'Clarendon' in the 1840s?
William Caslon
Justus Erich Walbaum
Vincent Figgins
Robert Besley
Robert Besley created Clarendon in 1845 for the Fann Street Foundry; it became the first registered typeface design, notable for its bracketed slab serifs. .
The decorative revival of medieval manuscript styles in printed books is known as?
Gothic Revival
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
Futurism
Gothic Revival drew on medieval manuscripts and architecture for motifs and layouts in 19th-century book design, aligning with the Arts and Crafts ethos. .
Which publication, first issued in 1896, became a showcase for Art Nouveau graphic design?
Harper's Bazaar
Jugend
Le Figaro
The Craftsman
Jugend magazine, founded in Munich in 1896, lent its name to 'Jugendstil' and featured cutting-edge Art Nouveau typography, illustration, and layouts. .
Which English designer created the 'Century Guild Hobby Horse', a periodical featuring Arts and Crafts aesthetics?
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
Walter Crane
Philip Webb
William Morris
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo launched the 'Century Guild Hobby Horse' in 1884, promoting medieval-inspired ornamentation and unity of art and craft. .
What is the name of the first poster print series by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec for the Moulin Rouge?
La Goulue
Jane Avril
Divan Japonais
Ambassadeurs
Toulouse-Lautrec's first poster, 'La Goulue' (1891), advertised the Moulin Rouge and marked a breakthrough in using lithography to capture nightlife scenes. .
What material advancement allowed chromolithographers to align multiple color layers precisely?
Magnets
Sticky tape
Manual alignment
Registration marks
Registration marks on stones or plates ensured each color layer in chromolithography lined up accurately, preventing blurred or offset imagery. .
Which Japanese printmaking tradition influenced European graphic designers in the late 19th century?
Origami
Kintsugi
Sumi-e
Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, discovered by Europeans post-1850, influenced color usage, flat planes, and compositional techniques in Art Nouveau and other movements. .
Which printing innovation did Samuel Guevara patent in the 1880s for color printing?
Offset lithography
Letterpress
Digital typesetting
Screen printing
Offset lithography, improved in the 1880s, transferred ink from a plate to a rubber blanket then to paper, speeding production and improving print quality. .
The term 'Beardsleyesque' is derived from which illustrator known for decadent black-and-white designs?
Edmund Dulac
N.C. Wyeth
Aubrey Beardsley
Alphonse Mucha
Aubrey Beardsley's intricate black-and-white woodcut-inspired illustrations for periodicals like 'The Yellow Book' coined the adjective 'Beardsleyesque' to describe similar styles. .
In chromolithography, what role does the key plate play?
Pressing papers together
Printing black outlines and details
Adding the first color
Registering the image
The key plate carries the detail and black outlines in a chromolithograph, serving as a guide for registration and tonal definition before the color plates are printed. .
Who founded the magazine 'The Studio' in 1893, which had a major influence on graphic design?
Charles Holme
Walter Pater
William Morris
John Lane
'The Studio', launched by Charles Holme in 1893, documented international decorative arts and graphic design trends, helping to disseminate Art Nouveau styles. .
Which Art Nouveau designer created the jewelry advertisement posters for René Lalique?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Alphonse Mucha
Maurice Denis
Eugène Grasset
Eugène Grasset produced elegant posters for René Lalique's jewelry, blending botanical motifs and stylized figures typical of French Art Nouveau. .
What key feature distinguishes Jules Chéret's 'Cherettes' posters from earlier designs?
Text-only composition
Monochrome silhouettes
Abstract shapes
Lively female figures with bare arms and legs
Chéret's 'Cherettes' introduced dynamic, brightly colored female figures in bold poses, emphasizing movement and modernity, distinct from static or text-heavy earlier posters. .
Which technological innovation enabled rapid reproduction of colored type on metal for headline fonts?
Digital typesetting
Hand-carved blocks
Gutenberg press
Display typecasting machines
Line-casting machines like the Linotype (1884) allowed printers to cast entire lines of metal type quickly, facilitating the creation of large, colorful display faces for posters and newspapers. .
Photochrom was a lithographic process developed in the 1880s for reproducing which type of images?
Text
Maps
Photographs
Illustrations
Photochrom used light-sensitive chemicals on lithographic stones to transfer photographic negatives into color prints, often of landscapes and postcards. .
What was the significance of the 'Prang process' in 19th-century color printing?
Introduced high-quality chromolithographs for home use
Scrapbooking technique
Organic ink formulation
Early halftone screen
Louis Prang's process produced affordable, fine-detail chromolithographs and popularized color printing in American homes and schools in the late 19th century. .
Gustave Doré's illustrations for which epic poem demonstrated the potential of wood engraving in narrative graphics?
Iliad
The Aeneid
Paradise Lost
The Divine Comedy
Doré's 1861 series of wood engravings for Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' illustrated complex scenes with dramatic shading, showcasing wood engraving's storytelling power. .
Which American firm is known for producing chromolithographic travel posters promoting railroads in the 1890s?
Harper's Bazaar Press
Disney Press
Kodak Gallery
American Lithographic Company
The American Lithographic Company created bright, detailed travel posters for clients like the Pennsylvania Railroad, pioneering commercial chromolithography in the U.S. .
What characteristic differentiates a lithographic stone from a metal plate?
Durability
Color
Weight
Porous surface that retains water and oil
Lithographic stones are porous limestone that hold water on non-image areas and ink on greasy image areas, whereas metal plates lack this natural hydrophilic property. .
Which cabinet of curiosities style influenced late 19th-century ornamental borders in printed works?
Wunderkammer
Vanitas
Grotesque
Memento mori
'Wunderkammer' or cabinets of curiosities inspired intricate border designs featuring shells, fossils, and exotic flora, adopted by Victorian printers in decorative bookplates and title pages. .
Which publication, founded in 1893, offered color-plate illustrations of decorative arts, influencing designers?
Punch
Harper's Weekly
The Studio
The Graphic
Published by Charles Holme, 'The Studio' featured high-quality color plates of international design and decorative arts, shaping late 19th-century graphic tastes. .
Who wrote 'The Grammar of Ornament' in 1856, a seminal work on design motifs that influenced 19th-century graphic decoration?
Christopher Dresser
Owen Jones
William Morris
John Ruskin
Owen Jones' 'The Grammar of Ornament' cataloged patterns from global historical sources and guided architects, printers, and designers in Victorian decoration. .
Which process used a photosensitive gelatin to etch printing plates, allowing finer detail in the 1870s?
Wood engraving
Intaglio
Lithography
Photogravure
Photogravure used a light-sensitive gelatin resist on copper plates to reproduce photographs with continuous tones, surpassing halftone dot patterns in richness. .
The introduction of 'Egyptian' typefaces refers to which style in the 19th century?
Sans serif
Script
Blackletter
Slab serif
Egyptian typefaces, or slab serifs, are characterized by thick, block-like serifs, and were popularized in the early 19th century for bold headlines and posters. .
What is photogravure in the context of 19th-century graphic reproduction?
A stencil-based printing
A woodblock printing variant
A photo-based intaglio printing process
A color embossing technique
Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking process where a photographic image is etched into a copper plate coated with light-sensitive gelatin, allowing high-fidelity continuous-tone prints. .
The reproduction of photographic images in the periodical 'Illustrirte Zeitung' used which process by 1895?
Wood engraving
Chromolithography
Letterpress halftone
Plain lithography
'Illustrirte Zeitung' began using letterpress halftone printing in the mid-1890s, enabling photographic detail in magazine pages via tiny halftone dots integrated into the type form. .
Who patented the collotype printing process in 1868, enabling high fidelity continuous-tone images?
William Dixon
Joseph Albert
Alois Senefelder
Louis Prang
Joseph Albert patented collotype in 1868, which used light-sensitive gelatin on glass plates to create detailed continuous-tone prints without a halftone screen. .
Which process, developed by Sir Joseph Swan in the 1890s, produced carbon prints on gelatin surfaces for stable images?
Cyanotype
Carbon printing
Silver gelatin
Bromide printing
Sir Joseph Swan refined the carbon printing process, which used pigmented gelatin for permanent, high-contrast images, popular in fine-art photography and illustration. .
The term 'troquelado' refers to which Spanish printing method introduced in the late 19th century?
Lithographic printing
Intaglio printing
Embossed printing
Die-cut printing
In Spanish, 'troquelado' describes die-cut printing, where shapes are cut from paper or board using predefined metal dies - a technique adopted for decorative cards and promotional materials in the late 19th century. .
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Study Outcomes

  1. Understand Nineteenth Olympiad Design -

    Explain the origins, defining features, and historical context of the nineteenth olympiad design style as covered in this graphic design history quiz.

  2. Analyze Major Design Movements -

    Compare and contrast classic graphic design movements, from Art Nouveau to Bauhaus, to see how each influenced modern visual communication.

  3. Identify International Typographic Style Traits -

    Recognize key principles and visual elements of the International Typographic Style to strengthen your design movements quiz performance.

  4. Recall Iconic Typefaces and Artists -

    Match prominent designers and typefaces to their respective movements, enhancing your typography trivia knowledge and retention.

  5. Evaluate Your Design History Knowledge -

    Use your quiz results to pinpoint strengths and areas for improvement in graphic design history, ensuring continuous learning.

Cheat Sheet

  1. Origins of Nineteenth Olympiad Design -

    Dive into the 1960 Rome Olympics' graphic identity, often dubbed "nineteenth olympiad design," which bridged mid-century modernism and the International Typographic Style. According to the Musée Olympique archives, designers like Carlo Vivarelli applied strict grid systems and minimal color palettes to achieve clarity and impact.

  2. Grid Systems and the International Typographic Style -

    The core of the International Typographic Style quiz lies in its use of a mathematical grid: often an 8×8 or 12×12 matrix outlined in the AIGA archives. Remember the mnemonic "GRIDS RULE": Grid, Rule, Sans-serif, Uniform Layout, Easy reading to recall Swiss Style fundamentals.

  3. Iconic Typefaces and Typography Trivia -

    Master the typography trivia with key faces like Helvetica and Univers (both 1957), plus Futura (1927) that defined Olympic branding across decades. The University of Reading's typographic departments emphasize how the neutral forms and consistent x-height of these typefaces ensure legibility at scale.

  4. Influence of Constructivism and De Stijl Movements -

    Nineteenth olympiad design borrowed bold geometric shapes and primary colors from Constructivism and De Stijl, a fact highlighted in the MoMA's graphic design collections. The minimalism of red, blue, and yellow blocks not only conveyed modernity but also set a template for later design movements quiz questions.

  5. Legacy in Contemporary Digital Design -

    Today's responsive layouts echo the principles of nineteenth olympiad design by adapting modular grids to devices - an evolution traced by the Yale School of Architecture's digital design studies. Whether you're tackling a graphic design history quiz or a design movements quiz, recognizing CSS Grid's roots in Olympic posters boosts both your score and your practical skills.

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