~ License to Print Money. Studio Brief 01 ~

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 (including the research trip to the People's History Museum's Show Me The Money exhibition), 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.

Please note, finished prints for this brief are not digital prints.


Background / Considerations
Think visually, explore both literal and lateral responses. Explore working with text and image, both combined and separately. Consider the various techniques and processes that are available to you and their suitability for conveying or re-enforcing the ideas that you are trying to communicate.


Mandatory Requirements
Analogue print on 21cm x 26cm stock for completed designs.


Deliverables
Final print.
2 x A3 design boards submitted as PDFs that provide a condensed overview of your research, process and design decisions.
Documentation of your development via posting to your Studio Practice blog.

Initial ideas- The deliverable for this brief needs to be a physically printed bank note, this doesnt mean the element of technology found in modern day money should be ignored. The possibility of combining the two could be interesting and take bank notes into the future.