On Banknote Design for Wired’s “The Future of Money”:

Aegir Hallmundur:

The design of banknotes represent something I find gloriously poetic — imperfect perfection — if it was perfect by our usual standards, it would be imperfect. Wonderful. So tried to capture some of that in my design, overlaying colours with an offset, adjusting the lettering a little bit to reflect the kind of oddities on real dollar notes and creating the odd layer of extra guilloche-work barely fine enough to see. I’m glad Wired is well printed and that it all came through.

I read the Wired article just a couple weeks ago, not knowing the illustration was Aegir’s handiwork. I’ve been following Ministry of Type for some time now, and in my opinion, it’s one of the best design blogs to read sans RSS reader.

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