Licence to Print Money - Brief/ Research

For the next brief this module, we have been asked to produce a design for banknotes while also exploring the cultural understanding of legal tender. This brief give us an opportunity to create our own design for the banknotes, but it limits us with ways regarding printing method. As the final resolution must be printed using analogue print process. However this will also open up new methods to the designer, that may not have been explored before, such us using more colours during screen printing.

Barbara Bernát
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Barbara Bernat has created a series of banknotes titled 'Hugarian Euro'. The common side of each not features European animals, the other sides shows releted species plants. She used the orginal proportions of the existing euro banknote for her design, as the domination increases, the size of the banknote is growing. The animals also represent the growth of value.



 
                                                           Yaka Valo
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Vaka Valo has designed a series of banknotes showing faces of famous of famous people with an anaglyph effect, alongside bold messy illustration over the top of the faces which obstruct them. Those banknotes don't seem to be designs of actual currency, more artistic expression.

Travis Purrington
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Travis Purrington's designs are subtle yet sleek, embossed with astronauts, crashing ways, ice-capped mountains and distanced galaxies. Each dollar bill contains two phrases: "This currency is upheld by the integrity of its people," and "Uires Alit," which means "strength feeds" in Latin. Purrington says that while not immediately obvious, his reinterpretations include elements from the existing bank notes such as the eagles, the US flag, and the Treasury seal. In addition, there are also key phrases from the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the national anthem embedded within the notes. "I think these are very America' but in a different context than we have grown accustomed,"