Thread: New Designs For The Dollar Bill

Fri Sep 17, 5:24 pm ET

The American dollar is in bad need of a makeover. Thanks to the Dollar ReDe$ign Project, we may now have some options. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_719913.html

Organized by creative strategy consultant Richard Smith, the Dollar ReDe$ign Project is soliciting ideas for the dollar bill of the future. "Our great 'rival', the Euro, looks so spanky in comparison it seems the only clear way to revive this global recession is to rebrand and redesign," the project notes on its website.

Fisher started the project in with the intent of "trying to find a catalyst to restart our economy" he told Fox News. The recent competition is now closed, and voting ends on September 30. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_719913.html "This has touched people's hearts," Fisher said, and "people feel the dollar touches their lives."

The leading vote-getter for this year's competition (pictured below) was submitted by British duo Dowling Duncan, which features a unique vertical design.



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Why a vertical format? "When we researched how notes are used we realized people tend to handle and deal with money vertically rather than horizontally," they note on the Dollar ReDe$ign Project's website. "You tend to hold a wallet or purse vertically when searching for notes. The majority of people hand over notes vertically when making purchases. All machines accept notes vertically. Therefore a vertical note makes more sense."

Mark Gartland submitted the entry below, entitled "America Today." The $50 bill features (pictured below) Sacagawea, the native American Indian who acted as Lewis and Clark's interepreter and guide. Noting the "cosmetic drabness" of the current dollar bill, Gartland selected various historical icons from including Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and President Obama to represent the "diverse fabric" of the U.S.



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Self-taught web designer Sean Flanagan submitted "Moving Forward, Looking Back," (below) which hews to many of "base color, size and orientation" of the classic dollar bill, but offers more than a few pleasant upgrades. Flanagan also utilized only American-designed typefaces and says his design would require at least "three different layers of solid ink," a preemptive strike against counterfeiting.




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If these money makeovers weren't enough, The Dollar ReDe$ign Project has even circulated a petition to get the U.S. government to seriously consider their ideas.

Which of these designs is your favorite?

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The last one is the only one I like... the group at the top, it looks more like European money, which I guess is the point, except this isn't Europe and I think they're ugly.

Just another waste of tax-payer dollars.

The law prohibits portraits of living persons from appearing on Government Securities. Therefore, the portraits on our currency notes are of deceased persons whose places in history the American people know well.

So as long as he is alive... Obama cannot be on any currency legal in the USA

Whatever they do they need to something to help the blind be able to know what dollar is which so they don't get cheated out of their money. They could add some type of braille on them.

I like the different sizes in the first set and the art in the 3rd. Braille would wear down after a while on a dollar made of paper which is why I like the different sizes.

Now lets think of how many Trillions they'll waste if they choose the Dowling Duncan set with each bill a different hight and width.