Important Names from the entire syllabus Flashcards
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Nicolas Jenson
A
inventor of the first Roman typeface
2
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Aldus Manutius and Franesco Griffo
A
italics
3
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William Carlson
A
Old Style
4
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Firmin Didot and Giambattista Bodoni
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the first serifs
5
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Vincent Figgings
A
slab serif
5
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Frederic Goudy
A
first professional font designer
6
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Steve Matteson
A
creator of Aptos
6
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Edward Johnston
A
London Underground font
7
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Thomas Phinney
A
forensic font
8
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Joe Woodland
A
barcode
9
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Caroline Brooks
A
butter sculptures
9
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Erika Iris Simmons
A
cassette tape art
10
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Charles Darwin
A
finches
10
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Dominique Blain
A
Missa
10
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E.S. Wheeler
A
the Detroit Pyramids
11
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Phillipe Maindron
A
Eiffela
12
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Jon Rafman
A
the Kool-Aid man
13
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Rachel Rossin
A
I Came and Went as a Ghost Hand
14
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Michael Wolgemut & Wilhelm Pleydenwruff
A
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
14
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Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang
A
La Camera Insabbiata
15
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Artemisia Gentileschi
A
Judith Slaying Holofernes
15
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Giorgio Vasari
A
Judith and Holofernes
16
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Pedro Americo
A
Judith and Holofernes
16
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Kehinde Wiley
A
Judith and Holofernes
17
Johannes Vermeer
Girl with the Pearl Earrings
18
Julian van Diekan
A Girl with Glowing Earrings
19
Jacque-Louis David
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
20
Hippolyte Paul Dalaroche
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (again)
21
Emanuel Leutze
George Washington Crossing the Delaware
21
Takashi Kawamura
Nagoya Castle elevator crisis
22
Angie Mason
rooftop farming
23
Claude Monet
Water Lily Pond
24
Giuseppe Archimboldo
A Reversible Anthropomorphic Portrait of a Man Composed of Fruit
25
Albert Robida
Aerial Rotating House
26
Carel Willink
Late Visitors to Pompeii
27
Graciela Iturbide
Our Lady of the Iguanas
28
Pedro Meyer
The Strolling Saint
28
Pedro Alvarez
The Romantic Dollarscape
29
Avery Gibbes
Weirdos of Another Universe
30
Andy Warhol
Campbell Soup Cans
31
Betye Saar
Liberation of Aunty Jemima
32
Banksy
Charlie Brown Firestarter
33
Brendan O'Connell
Life, Miracle Whip and Premium
33
Meryl Streep
Margaret Thatcher actor
34
Imran Khan
PTI leader; delivered AI speech
34
Richard Attemborough, Ben Kingsley
Gandhi
35
Stuart Humphryes
The Colors of Life
35
Steven Spielberg
Schindler's List
36
Jordan Lloyd
Professional Recolor-er
37
Chang Xiangyu
Mulan opera girl
38
Boris Eldagsen
The Electrician
39
Bas Uterwijk
dead people in art (Artbreeder) made realistic
40
Pierre-Francois Bouchard
Rosetta Stone
40
Dr. Sebastien Rey
Girsu Project
41
Thomas Stamford Raffes
Borobudur
42
Johann Ludwig Buckhardt
Petra
43
Basil Brown
Sutton Hoo
44
Ivan Sprajc
Ocumtun
45
Ernest Shackleton
HMS Endurance
46
Yohannes Haile-Selassie
Ardi
47
Eugene Debois
Java Man
47
Raymond Dart
Taung Child
47
Mary & Louis Leakey
Oldowan Toolkit
48
Brent Seales
launcher of the Vesuvius Challenge
48
Robert Broom
Paranthropus robustus
49
Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor, and Julian Schilliger
winners of the Vesuvius Challenge
50
Francisco Franco
Spanish dictator following Civil War
50
Mary C Lauderate
director of the Black History Museum in Virginia
51
Neil Gaiman
The Sandman
52
John Gary Steele
The Sandman (production designer)
52
Mike Dringenberg
The Sandman (comic)
52
Yuriy Pimenov
New Moscow
53
Rene Rios Boettiger
Condorito
54
Fritz Lang
Metropolis
54
Fernando Pena
fixer-upper of Metropolis
54
Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
55
Rrose Selavy
Marcel Duchamp's alter ego
55
Sherrie Levine
Fountain (Buddha)
56
Mike Bidlo
Fractured Fountain
57
Alfred Stieglitz
photographer of the Fountain
58
Rachel Lachowicz
Untitled (Lipstick Urinals)
59
Charles K. Harris
"After the Ball"
60
George Michael
"Freedom! 90"
61
R.E.M.
"Losing My Religion"
62
Lis Sorenson
"Braendt"
63
Alyona Sviridova
"Pink Flamingo"
63
Chris Cornell
"Black Hole Sun"
64
Semisonic
"Singing in My Sleep"(band that wrote)
64
Dan Wilson
"Singing in My Sleep" (writer)
64
Soundgarden
"Black Hole Sun"
65
Peter Buck
"Losing My Religion"
66
Francis Fukuyama
The End of History and the Last Man
67
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
coined the "end of history"
68
Alexandre Kojeve
supporter of Hegel
68
Aaron Delehanty
dioramas
69
Carl Akeley
creator of dioramas
70
Michael Pelletz
Dreamland Wax Museum
71
Daniel De Freitas & Noam Shazeer
Character.AI
72
William Shatner
James Tk. Kirk in Star Trek
73
Zhang Zewei
Super Brain
73
Patricia Weskunas
assaulted; Crime Survivors Inc.
74
Jeffrey Kelavos
the assaulter; true crime
75
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
76
Makoto Shinkai
Suzume
77
William Wallace
Braveheart
78
Ronald D. Moore
For All Mankind
79
Guy Gavriel Kay
cool fantasy writer
80
George Hadley
The Veldt
81
Ray Bradbury
The Veldt
82
Miriam Greenburg
"Brazillian Telephone"
82
W. B. Yeats
"The Municipal Gallery Revisited"
83
Carl Sandburg
"Buffalo Dusk"
84
Robert G. Ingersoll
"At the Tomb of Napoleon"
"At the Tomb of Napoleon"
85
John Milton Hay
"My Castle in Spain"
86
Wislawa Szymborska
"Photograph from September 11"
87
Koh Buk Song
"A Brief History of Toa Poyah"
88
Norman Dubie
"The Czar's Last Christmas Letter"
89
Margaret Atwood
"This is a Photograph of Me"
90
John Dee
man
sadistic person in The Sandman
91
Chloe Phillips-Harris
detained at Kazakhstan airport
92
John Key
PM of NZ
93
Gloria & Luis Miguel Rodriguez
Eat Spain Up!
94
Gaston Acurio
most famous Peruvian chef
most famous Peruvian chef
95
John Urry
tourist gaze
96
Stephen Turnbull
ninja
ninja
97
Seiko Fujita
promoter of the ninja
98
Belva Cottier
Alcatraz Native American
99
Egon Schiele
Edge of Town (Krumau Town Crescent III)
100
Peter Solo
Vandou Game
101
Them Mushroomz
Embe Dodo
102
Charles Dibdin
the first pop star
103
Arturo Toscanini
by the book conductor
103
Jules Verne
steampunk
104
Lloyd deMause
psychohistory
105
Jean-Marc Cote
these postcards
106
Heinrich von Kleist
rocket mail
107
Charles Jantzi
internet bad for Amish
108
Lindsay Ems
internet fine for Amish
internet fine for Amish
109
Howard Arkley
Family Home: Suburban Exterior
110
Malvina Reynolds
"Little Boxes"
111
Leonard Koscianski
Life in the Suburbs
112
Sen Borsan
Setora guruhi
112
Diego Rivera
Mexico Today and Tomorrow
113
Viktor Deni
Comrade Lenin Cleanses Earth of Filth
114
Czeslaw Milosz
"A Song on the End of the World"
114
Percy Shelley
"To a Skylark"
114
Dylan Thomas
"Poem in October"
115
Vinod Kumar Shookla
"That Man Put on a Wool Coat"
116
Pablo Neruda
"Ode to My Socks"
117
Gertrude Stein
"My Long Dress"
118
Anne Carson
"Father's Old Blue Cardigan"
119
Jurgen Habermas
The Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere
119
Thompson Cooper
first man to interview the pope
119
Liam Rector
"Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits"
120
Erasmus
Republic of Letters
121
Darren Cullen
Join the Army!
122
David Chappatte
Graphic Journalism
123
Eleri Harris & Matt Bors
The Nib
124
Jon Stewart
The Daily Show
The Daily Show
125
John Oliver
"Last Week Tonight"
126
Glyn Evans
iPhoneography
127
Jimmy Lai
Next Media Animations
128
Li Kui-Ming
Trump on Show
129
David Attenborough
Dynasties (penguins)
130
Henk Rogers
Tetris
130
Alexey Pajitnov
Tetris designer
131
Jin Sakai
Ghost of Tsushima
131
George, Lizzie, Ralph
Rampage
132
Harleigh English
allure of imperfection
133
Yoh Moriyama
Megalo Box
134
John Plant
Primitive Technology
135
Jonathan Townsend
historical reenactment products
136
Bernadette Banner
YouTube sewer
136
Charles Babbage
Analytical Engine
136
John Sculley
Apple
137
Larry Page & Sergey Brin
Google
138
Sundar Pichai
Alphabet
139
Reed Hastings
Netflix
140
Sam Altman
(former) OpenAI CEO
141
Mira Murati
(new, interim) OpenAI CEO
142
Greg Brockman
(former) chairman of the board of OpenAI
143
Martha Matilda Harper
franchising
144
Michael Lewis
Moneyball
145
Billy Beane
sabermetrics
146
James Daunt
Waterstone & B&N
146
Duane Hanson
Supermarket Shopper
147
Allen Ginsberg
"A Supermarket in California"
148
Andreas Gursky
99 Cent
149
Alexander Nikolaevich Govor
McRussia (vskuno and tochka)
150
Pablo Escobar
hippos
151
Ronald Goderie
supercow (auroch)
151
Ben Lamm
Colossal Biosciences
151
Ino Tadataka
Japan map
151
Samuel Morse
telegraph
152
Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot
153
Elizabeth Holmes
Theranos
154
Trevor Milton
Nikola
155
Jeffrey Katzenburg & Meg Whitman
Quibi
Quibi
155
Kendra Holmes
Life at Sea Cruise
155
Sam Bankman-Fried
FTX
155
Sam Lee & Zijing Xu
Hyper(x)
Hyper(x)
156
Jon Lech Johansen
DeCSS
157
Ricardo Garcia
youtube-dl
157
Kenneth Arnold
first UFO sighting (1947)
157
Suttons family
Little Green Men
158
Hikari Azuma
waifu bo
158
Major Keyhoe
The Flying Saucers Are Real
159
Ling
virtual idol
160
Minoru Takeuchi
inventor of waifu bot
160
Jasdeep Singh Degun & Laurence Cummings
Orfeo
160
Sheila Williams
The Last Hope received loads of stories names this from people using ai
161
Gabriella Damian Miravete
"We Will Dream in the Garden"
162
Holly Mintzer
"Tomorrow is Waiting"
163
Isaac Asimov
"Franchise" & "The Last Question"
164
Vitaly Komar & Alexander Malamid
Judith on the Red Square
165
Styx: Dennis DeYoung
"Come Sail Away"
165
Blink 182: Tom DeLonge
"Aliens Exist"
165
Ella Fitzgerald
"Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer"
166
Parliament
"Mothership Connection: Star Child"
166
Shonen Knife
"Riding On The Rocket"
167
Ace Frehly
"Space Invader"
168
Archibald Motley
"Black Belt"
"Black Belt"
169
William Hogarth
"An Election Entertainment"
