ARTIST ANDREY AVGUST REIMAGINES U.S. BANKNOTES

Belarusian designer Andrey Avgust has turned American banknotes 90 degrees and created graphics for the new format, in this conceptual take on the country's currency.

Avgust's project sees the country's one, five, 10, 20, 50, and 100 dollar bills imagined as boldly coloured polymer banknotes.

The New US Dollars series would be made up of translucent layers of flexible plastic, making them more hardwearing than the current cotton-fibre paper notes, like the new £5 and £10 notes for England.

They are also intended to bolster the currency's security and make it more difficult to counterfeit. Visuals show a random assortment of numbers and letters glowing across their surfaces in the dark.

With the orientation flipped from horizontal to a vertical, Avgust's contemporary alternative also follows the recent redesigns for Canada's $10 bill and Northern Ireland's banknotes.

This switch offered the designer the opportunity to create new visuals to replace the current green-hued imagery.

His suggested alternative is a set of muted blue- and grey-coloured notes, which accompany monochrome portraits of historical American figures.

To read the complete articles, see:
THE NEW US DOLLAR (https://www.behance.net/gallery/63326431/THE-NEW-US-DOLLAR)
Andrey Avgust reimagines US dollar bills as vertical designs (https://www.dezeen.com/2018/06/19/andrey-avgust-reimagines-us-dollar-bills-vertical-illustrated-designs/)

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