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 Jun 25th, 2010 No Comments »
The Rupee (abbreviated as ₨, Re.(Singular), Rs. (Plural) or रू.) was originally an Indian silver coin. Today, it is the name for the monetary unit of account in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Mauritius, Seychelles, Indonesia, Maldives, formerly Burma and Hyrule (a fictional land from the video game “The Legend of Zelda”) – gotta’ love [...]
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 May 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Piles of paper money… papercraft money for printing.
Canadian banknotes are the banknotes of Canada, denominated in Canadian dollars (CAD). In common everyday usage, they are called bills. Currently, they are issued in five, ten, twenty, fifty, and hundred dollar denominations. All current notes are issued by the Bank of Canada, which released its first series [...]
Posted in dominoes on Jul 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
U.S. Dollar ( $ )
As it turns out, the symbol ($) comes from Spain. The II upon the S represented the Pillars of Hercules, upon which rests the Spanish coat of arms. The S came about from the plural for Dollars or Pesos. In Spanish 1 Dolar, 2 Dolares, 1 Peso, 2 Pesos etc. [...]
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 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 [...]
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