Which graphic design team developed the familiar set of symbols used today to communicate information across language barriers to international travelers?
A. Holley and Barnett
B. Carson and Cuffaro
C. Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg
D. Cook and Shanosky
E. Spiekermann and Schwartz
D
The U.S. Department of Transportation needed a set of symbols to communicate essential information across language barriers to international travelers and the design firm of Cook and Shanosky developed the set of symbols through the findings of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
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A) true B) false
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a. disaster stories. b. penny dreadfuls. c. zombie literature. d. vampire tales.
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a. The music evokes the image without question. b. Berlioz arranged for a guillotine on stage during the first performance. c. Guillotines were an important part of popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris. d. Berlioz wrote it in the program.
The vibraphone is
a. a vibrating telephone that was the predecessor of the cell phone. b. an instrument like a xylophone with metal bars and an electrically enhanced sustained tone. c. the instrument that made Ornette Coleman famous. d. only found in museums.