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frequent written work, and of final examinations.

The importance of written work cannot be overstated. It not only assures
knowledge of material but the power to express that knowledge correctly
and in good form.

QUESTIONS

1. What purpose in the works of mankind is served by design?

2. In what manner does design influence man's handiwork?

3. What is design?

4. What is "a design"?

5. What is the difference between beauty and fitness to purpose?

6. What are the elements of design?

7. What relationship has a printer to a sculptor, an architect, a
painter, a decorative designer?

8. How does the printed page limit its design?

9. What is the difference between a printed picture and a printed design
based upon that picture?

10. Why are pictures unsuitable to decorate a printed page?

11. What are the materials of design?

12. Analyze a well-designed typographical ornament into the materials
which compose it.

13. When the materials of design are put to use, what conditions must be
satisfied in their arrangement?

14. What is harmony?

15. What is balance?

16. What is proportion?

17. What is rhythm?

18. How may the foregoing qualities be demonstrated?

19. What shapes should be used in combination?

20. What further relationship should they have?

21. On a type page 20 picas wide by 30 picas deep would a panel 18 picas
wide by 8 picas deep be proper? What, if anything, would be preferable?

22. Would a rule line 6 points wide be suitable to surround a mass of 18
point Caslon old style caps? Why?

23. If the printed page is to be other than black and white, what
further consideration of harmony is involved?

24. What must we consider in related areas with respect to their size or
measure?

25. What relationship of sizes is often most interesting?

26. Place a single line on a cover page in a desirable position.

27. Is the eye always to be trusted in the judgment of space
relationships?

28. Should mathematical measurements or the effect upon the eye be the
guiding factor in arrangement? Why?

29. What is the effect of the surrounding edge or border upon the masses
of a design?

30. How should the masses in a design be arranged with respect to the
surrounding edge?

31. What mathematical principles influence this arrangement?

32. How is equality in the halves of a printed page sometimes desirable
and sometimes not?

33. When there is no equality in the halves o