Design Currency
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The Ministry of Type has a small article about the new currency being deployed in the United Kingdom. (Found by way of Andy Rutledge.)
I don’t have much to say about it, aside from the fact that the coinage was developed through an open contest that received 4000 entries from 500 people. The winner? A 26-year-old graphic designer named Matthew Dent. (There’s a Times Online article about the competition available, too.) If that isn’t inspiration, I don’t know what is. The coins are beautiful to see and the shapes themselves make me wish I lived in Britain so I could spend these post-haste. Instead I live in a country that honestly believes one and two-dollar bills are acceptable. (Though I suppose we haven’t printed two-dollar bills in a number of years.)
The end of the linked article also has a link to a quip comparing the new coinage to the US reconfiguration of the five-dollar bill. It’s as obvious as the bureaucratic conglomeration it represents. Sad.
If you’re shopping early for my birthday, the Royal Mint offers some nice commemorative packages in affordable (and not so affordable) price ranges.
