Design Currency II
In an interesting twist, Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima hired 10,000 anonymous artists to recreate a small portion of the US$100 bill. The artists were each paid one US penny. Called Ten Thousand Cents (found via swissmiss), the project took advantage of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. None of the artists knew what they were helping to recreate and some decided to forego the replication and insert their own interesting designs.
The project is definitely worth a look, if nothing else than to see the flash file on the home page that draws each section simultaneously. There is also a section within the site that displays certain pieces, large-scale, as they are drawn.
