Studio Brief 02 - Licence to Print Money - The Brief

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?

Undertake research into the development of coinage and banknotes while also exploring the cultural understandings of legal tender. Following this initial engagement, begin a more developed interrogation of financial transactions in order to complete your own proposal for the future of the banknote.

Your proposed banknote design should be presented as a finished print that makes use of any of the varied analogue print processes available within the college's workshops. 

Submissions should additionally be created using a minimum of two colours/finishes. Paper size for completed work will be 21cm x 26cm with banknote designs displayed landscape. (The size of the actual banknotes are to be determined by the student when based on their design rationale. It is up to the student whether they choose to display one or two sides of a banknote on the print.) 

Each 21cm x 26cm print is to be submitted by 21st April 2016 

for inclusion in a Level 4 and Level 5 group show that will run in May 2016.

Responding to the brief -

There are many ways that I thought that I could approach this brief, I feel the best way way too look at this brief is too see the creating a banknote more like a piece of graphic art; rather than a working banknote as this could restrict ideas and creatively. Although it would be good if the note could be used as a working note after (even though it won't). But I don't want too caught up when it comes too the function of the note, I would rather then note as a good mean/purpose behind it making it more interesting to go in a show.

I have learnt from the previous brief that it is very good to experiment with many styles of design as well as many different medias as this brief has to be fully traditional print it mean that I will be thinking a lot about how I can produce the note rather than just what it looks like on screen. So I can think about the texture and feel of the note and what it will be made from, there is a to more to think about that makes the final result more interesting. 

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