What Would U.S. Money Look Like, Given the Proper Attention of an Industrial Designer?

Bills so pretty you'd never spend them

By RAIN NOE

Industrial designer Andrey Avgust hails from Belarus, a country whose currency I admit I've never seen. But he's seen our yankee dollars and recognizes that their design kind of stinks.

For fun Avgust gave U.S. bills a redesign, starting with the material: Polymer.



Then he took the design iconography of current American cash and reimagined it within a new window, flipping the orientation from landscape to portrait (except for one shot of the stubbornly horizontal White House):





He had a bit of fun with the anti-counterfeiting measures too, imagining what metameric (optically variable) inks would look like under a black light:







Of course, money this gorgeous would never work in America. If I owned something that pretty I'd want to keep it. The powers that be would prefer we spend.

Source: http://www.core77.com/posts/78051/What-Would-US-Money-Look-Like-Given-the-Proper-Attention-of-an-Industrial-Designer

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It looks disgusting!!

More like Jehovah witness books.