Better Homes and Gardens offers this quiz to help you decide what color to paint your walls based on your answers to eight questions. Apparently my color personality is green. Green? Though the description wasn't far off, this is still very disappointing. I bet it's because I chose to read memoirs of famous figures instead of romance novels about passionate encounters.
I just watched Between the Folds, a fascinating documentary about fine artists and theoretical scientists who fold paper. I think Alex and I said "wow" out loud about five times each. Just for fun, take this quiz to see if you can figure out what each origami diagram creates when folded.
A little fun for Friday: take this quiz from the New York Times and decide which look is old and which is new for fall 2010. I got 4 out of 6: "Close, but no stiletto." That's okay since I prefer flip flops. And jeans and t-shirts instead of black lace dresses that show my underwear.
If you're curious to know what your particular brand of creativity reveals about you, take this little quiz from Psychologies magazine.
I learned that for me, creativity is "a magical world in which you like to immerse yourself. When you’re involved in it, you get the wonderful sensation that there are no limits, that anything is possible." Ah, magical! That explains why I always try to sneak a unicorn or leprechaun into every brochure I design.
Take a quiz at Ethan Allen to determine your decorating style (or most likely, your decorating style as it best fits within the catalog of Ethan Allen products). Kind of fun, because you get to look at pretty pictures. I was diagnosed as Metro. And you?
Select colors you like and dislike in this quiz. Then all sorts of data about your personality will be revealed.
An excerpt from my profile: "You are 54% extrovert and 46% introvert. You are dynamic, your actions are only directed by your own will and you know how to lead people. You are also able to have an in-depth thinking, you think before acting, and you know how to communicate your knowledge. Finally you are a manager and a structured person, you know how to take into account the needs of each person while leading them towards the set goals." If it's on the internet, it must be true.
Based on two colors, a visual hint, and a cryptic verbal clue, see how many of the world's brands you can identify in this quiz. I got a respectable 18 out of 21, but I'm still scratching my head over the ones I missed. Via Brand New.
Update: The answers are in one of the comments here. (Thanks, Jan!) Now I will sleep better tonight.
Okay, this is uncanny. Take this color test, and it will tell you what career you're suited for. My result: "You're a CREATOR." Among the suggested career occupations: Web Designer, Creative Director, Fine or Commercial Artist. How can it be? Get out of my head! A note: I couldn't get the quiz to give me the results in Safari, but Firefox worked. And you can click right past the screen asking you to fill out an informational form. Okay, now you try it and tell me if it works.
If you're dying to know, take this quiz at True Value Paint. Wanna know what color I was? Black. What!?! "Nothing can stand between you and your demand for a calm environment. To be free of conflict and disagreement is the only way to live...your ability to focus is undisputed, and while you enjoy attention, you still have problems understanding how to handle it. No other color lives by the golden rule as much as you do." Actually not an inaccurate description, but black?
Pentagram recently invited friends and clients to visit their resident psychiatrist. You, too, can drop by his office to learn what typeface most suits your personality. This descendent of Freud will ask you four questions, take some notes, and then reveal your "type," complete with a history lesson on that font. I was diagnosed as Universal. Give it a try right here. The password is "character." (Thanks, Stephanie!)
Consumers everywhere, see how many corporate logos you can identify in six minutes in this quiz. I got 31 out of 36, then came to a screeching halt. Americans will have a distinct advantage in this game; sorry, international friends.
Here's a short quiz that will determine for you which colors and qualities you would most like reflected in your home. How does the magical quiz determine this? By asking you which colors and qualities you would most like reflected in your home. Not rocket science, is it. My completely non-surprising result is above.
As a graphic designer, I get a kick out logo quizzes. Sorry; here's another one. Your job is to choose the logos that have never been official marks for various companies. After taking the quiz, my conclusions: 1) Are you kidding? They actually used some of those? 2) I stink at this quiz. 12 out of 20.
Think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Take this quiz, in which David Friedman found 20 logos originally designed with Helvetica and swapped it with Arial. Your job is to pick out the original. Have fun. (Via Swiss Miss.)
The International School of Color and Design offers this quiz to help you find your interior decorating style. Good luck... mine was way off, but hey, it was fun.
Do you love the cinema? Do you love typography? A Friday time-waster for you: guess the movie based on a letter from its poster. (And I think from now on I shall use words like "film" and "cinema" when chatting about movies I've seen. It will make me sound much smarter. For example, "After viewing the film Zoolander at the cinema, I purchased it for our motion picture collection." Sounds smart, right? Except for the Zoolander part.)
Here's a little typography quiz for you. You professional designers out there are going to pass with flying colors, guaranteed.
Test your art history knowledge with this little quiz. It will help you kill about one minute while you're waiting for the weekend to start. (If you need to kill more time than that, see other posts in the time-wasters category. Maybe you could waste up to an hour, even. Good luck.)
I can't remember where I found it, but Sproost is another fun little quiz to help you learn about your decorating preferences. Rate rooms on a continuum from "Love It" to "Hate It." Try it here! I turned out 71% Vintage Modern, 14% Contemporary, and 15% French Eclectic.
Here's a visual quiz where you can test your ability to eyeball things. Where's the midpoint? When is the line parallel? You get the idea. I started off horribly but improved enough to get a 2.18. I wonder if taking this quiz every day would help train me, so I'd eventually be able to cut paper and fabric without measuring ever again. Hmm. Somehow I doubt it.
