Passports & banknotes
What I really like in my job is the design for a purpose, not just for the beauty of art. So designing a very usuful thing like passeport or bank notes is very interesting. I want to highlight several projects I discover recently...
Norway passport by Neue
Neue wins the design competition to design the new official ID document of Norway, and they develop the concept of landscape... For security purpose, pages are covered in colorful UV-reactive images that can only be seen under a blacklight.
Canadian passeport
As for the Norway passport, the pages of Canadian one are covered in colorful UV-reactive images and the result is great. The “secret” UV images are cleverly incorporated into the parts of each page that are visible under normal lighting so that the two complement each other when seen under UV light. These images, along with a biometric chip in the back of the passport, are all security measures designed to ensure that duplicating or forging a passport would be as difficult and complicated as possible.
So much into glow in the dark inks since we try it on the calendar.
Do not know who design it, but found the images here.
USA banknotes proposal by Travis Purrington
I am not sure USA are ready to change their banknotes, but I guess it would be interesting to have some colors and different sizes !
www.travispurrington.com/2014-usd-proposal
Norway banknotes by Snohetta
