Question
A chapter of Douglas Thomas’s book Never Use [this typeface] discusses how its designer was arrested for degenerate art, although the Nazis still used this typeface for ads for the 1936 Olympics. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this sans serif typeface designed by Paul Renner. The use of this typeface on a red background characterizes the work of Barbara Kruger and was later copied by Supreme.
ANSWER: Futura [accept Never Use Futura]
[10e] Thomas claims the Guerrilla Girls’ use of Futura lent “cultural weight” to their posters, such as one which asks, “Do women have to be naked to get into” this New York museum.
ANSWER: The Metropolitan Museum of Art [or the Met]
[10h] Futura is used on plaques signed by visitors to this location, many photos from which have thin crosses created by Reseau plates. A tiny wafer featuring a Mickey Mouse by Robert Rauschenberg and other drawings was smuggled to this location.
ANSWER: the moon [accept Moon Museum] (Reseau plates are glass plates engraved with crosses, which were used in the cameras that took the Apollo 11 photos.)
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