The Brief: In an age of Apple Pay, Bitcoin, contactless, Paypal and other options for the transferring of funds, is there a future for "real" money?
In this brief we have been set the task to research into the development of coinage and banknotes while also exploring the cultural understandings of legal tender. Following this and the research visit to the People's History Museum's Show Me The Money exhibition), we must begin a more developed interrogation of financial transactions in order to complete your own proposal for the future of the banknote.
We have to design a bank note that will be presented as a print that making use of any of the varied analogue print processes available within the college's workshops such as screen print mono print and lino. The finished product must consist of a minimum of two colour finishes and the paper size for completed work has to be 21cm x 26cm with banknote designs displayed landscape. The size of the actual banknotes and whether or not they are two sided is completely up to us based on our reasoning behind the final outcome.
In this project we should aim to think visually, exploring both literal and lateral responses. We should experiment with text and image, both separately and together, and explore a range of suitable production methods.
Aims: I plan on exploring a number of directions with this brief including a range of historical figures worthy of being on a bank note to things considered more important that money such as health, strength of character and what makes being a good person.
To kick start this project I'm going to revisit my notes on the peoples history museum and look into some existing designs of alternative banknotes.
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