Posted in dominoes on Aug 20th, 2010 No Comments »
the Dollar ReDe$sign Project is advocating a redesign of U.S. paper currency to make it more, um, current.
The design firm Dowling Duncan created a whole set of bills, coded by color and size (click for a larger view):
The folks at Dowling Duncan write:
We wanted a concept behind the imagery so that the image [...]
Posted in dominoes on May 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Harry Eccleston worked for more than 25 years as a banknote designer at the Bank of England and was best known for the series D notes, issued in 1978 and the first fully pictorial series. Eccleston’s portrait of the Queen was on the front of the notes and his drawings of Isaac [...]
Posted in dominoes on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Coin Shrinking from Jeremy Ruhland on Vimeo.
Check out Bert Hickman’s “Makin’ Small Change” and Shrinker Gallery
Discharging about 10 kV (15,000 joules!) from enormous 300 µF capacitors the team at Hackerbot Labs “Turn half dollars into quarters! Turn quarters into dimes! Turn dimes into little semi-molten balls of metal!” with their custom built apparatus through a [...]
Posted in dominoes on May 21st, 2009 No Comments »
“Ten Thousand Cents” which has also been around the web quite a bit. For Ten Thousand Cents, 10,000 people were paid one cent to draw 1/10,000th of an image of a $100 bill. This digital artwork creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from [...]
Posted in dominoes on Apr 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Way cool idea to raise funds and increase awareness. Although something would need to be done to accommodate non-magnetic coins but a great concept.
WWF: Coins from CCW – Lab on Vimeo.
Posted in dominoes on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s a cool set of self-promotion coins following the likeness of the designer but looking oddly familiar to those coins from Liberia… Dan “Minister of Industrial Design” Ballou’s business cards, which aren’t cards at all, but metal coins. Fresh! These new business “coins” have dropped and they’re getting a good reaction. The dollar might be [...]
Posted in dominoes on Oct 17th, 2008 No Comments »
The press release starts off “In these days of soaring gas prices, yelps of cash crunches and real estate depression, the last thing anyone would do is destroy money. Well, anyone but Yoko Devereaux that is. Launching for spring/summer 2008, Old Money, is a collection of coins hand cut into works of art Yoko has [...]
Posted in dominoes on Oct 6th, 2008 No Comments »
I have a large collection of money from around the world – from various travels over the years. The paper money of different countries is so unique and colorful. I would like to find a way to display it in my home. I was thinking of framing it, but can’t find frames of the right [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
Artist’s Obscurity
An etching from Paris Etching Society that was picked up at an estate auction. We wanted to see if I could dig up more information about this etching online. I figured I could “google” the painter and get something – no luck at all… it appears this painter never did another painting/etching again and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2007 Comments Off
In a follow-up to a previous article on mosaic imagery and numismatic art we found an artist that works on large scale prints that are composed of smaller images of a like theme.
Artist Chris Jordan has put together three 8.5 feet wide by 10.5 feet tall horizontal panels that depicts 125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 [...]
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