June 10, 2013

Quiz: What's your design alter-ego?


Design in a Nutshell is an entertaining series of short videos explaining design movements from the last 200 years. The animations are charming, and the narrator has a fabulous accent and says things like "al-yoo-min-ee-um." Watch the videos here to educate yourself about design history, or take a quiz to determine your design alter-ego.

Your alternate persona will be a mashup of notable names from the movement that best matches your style. I ended up a modernist, then took the quiz a few more times to see the other characters. The postmodernist dude (whose favorite color is Thursday) cracked me up.

Via Swiss Miss.

16 comments:

  1. BethJune 10, 2013 at 1:58 PM

    This is really fun! The questions were really hard for me to answer though. Not enough choices for me I guess. :)

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  2. Jessica JonesJune 10, 2013 at 2:05 PM

    You mean you don't think a Saarinen tulip chair is like a tiger? It's so obvious. :)

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  3. AshleyJune 10, 2013 at 3:00 PM

    How fun!

    http://scarlettmoonblog.blogspot.com/

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  4. Grandma GJune 10, 2013 at 3:57 PM

    The questions were crazy, and so was my "alter-ego". Ha!

    Mum

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  5. maria f.June 10, 2013 at 4:12 PM

    Great videos. Just call me Ludwig van der Pound.

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  6. AnonymousJune 11, 2013 at 2:17 AM

    That 'fabulous accent' by the way is Scottish. It is alright to laugh at our pronounciation. We laugh at yours and the fact you had to simplify spelling to cope with it!!!

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  7. Jessica JonesJune 11, 2013 at 9:15 AM

    Yours sounds much more distinguished. British, Scottish, Irish accents... I love them all.

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  8. MACRÍA DiseñoJune 11, 2013 at 2:04 PM

    LOVE DESIGN HISTORY
    THANKS!

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  9. Milene NelsonJune 11, 2013 at 2:30 PM

    I always get the same score as you do! We must be twins or something... at least twins in taste and style perhaps.

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  10. Jessica JonesJune 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM

    Or maybe we are actual twins. Are you almost 6 feet tall with really big feet too?

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  11. Grandma GJune 11, 2013 at 3:09 PM

    She is NOT your twin, no matter what her size or what score she gets! Somehow I just know that.

    Mum

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  12. Jessica JonesJune 11, 2013 at 3:51 PM

    Okay then. If you're sure.

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  13. Milene NelsonJune 12, 2013 at 10:22 AM

    even if I'm not that tall and my feet are a very small, we could still be twins.
    Wouldn't be great to have a brazilian twin, who is part japanese, part italian and has a british last name?

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  14. Jessica JonesJune 12, 2013 at 10:26 AM

    It would be wonderful!!! :)

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  15. Grandma GJune 12, 2013 at 10:27 AM

    I suppose I could consider adoption....

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  16. AnonymousJune 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM

    So fun, and so well done-- thanks! (Just call me Karla Gropius.)

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