20.10.2014 - Norway’s amazing new abstract currency
Each bill depicts a particular landmark along Norway’s coast with the details boldly omitted. Large blocks of color are stacked together as in a blown-up jpeg, creating an atmosphere that’s just barely representational, both arctic and evocatively generic. The most startling aspect of these new bills is that they look genuinely new. The eye-catching proposal for the money, which is set to enter circulation in 2017, is from the New York- and Oslo-based design and architecture firm Snohetta. The designers linked the currency to the strength of currents, distorting each image in accordance with the Beaufort wind scale...............................................Full Article: Source
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