Redesigning Money

The design firm Dowling Duncan is proposing to redesign the American dollar bills. As the website states, "Dowling Duncan wants to renovate America's image abroad." The idea is so that America can show their great aspects and show the world their accomplishments. Also instead of having the old landscape bill, the new one is portrait, which is easier to hand over showing the amount of the bill. The different colours are also designed to help recognise each different colour and amount that it is.




(http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662135/could-a-dollar-bill-featuring-obama-repair-the-uss-image-abroad)

The one dollar bill.

The thinking behind this redesign is clearly stated on the note. The first African America president, Barack Obama is shown on the front. "These bills are designed to be educational and inituitive. The images and text "offer insight into America's heritage."
The graphic elements have been used to assemble this design by using a combination of text and imagery. There is the photo of Barack Obama's head shown in a tone of blues and blacks. The solid blue colour is used at the bottom, then turned into a light shade into nearly white. The text used on the note, informs the users with information about the picture and shows clearly that its the United States money.

My Boardshort Design

Design Brief - We are to design a pair of boardshorts using only geometric or organic shapes. We are to construct a simple pattern that can be repeated to form a yardage. We got given a board short template to lay over our yardage to show a mock up of our design. We have to create 3 colour variations of the design in accordance of three of the following: Summer, Contrasting colours, harmonious colours, winter, spring, monochromatic, Autumn, retro or other.
I chose Winter, Summer and Spring.

This is the Winter version called Amethyst Sky:

This is the Summer version called Rainbow Surf:

And this is the Spring version called Tropic Daize:



This is the 3 boardshorts with their information.

I chose this pattern as the stripes and squares were fun to play around with an make accurate patterns. I think it gives the boardshorts a very interesting look as the pattern is quite complicated to understand. Some of the colours chosen were contrasting and others complimented. There is a very large range of different colours and all the names suit the colours. The reason I chose Amethyst sky is because of the purple repesenting the crytal Amethyst and the black and blue for night and day sky. Also the reason for rainbow surf is because the blue and white represent the waves and the orange and pink are colours from the rainbow. Tropic daize is used for the Spring design as I have used aqua and light green to represent tropical, clear waters.