Can we harness the relationship between good design and functionality to rebrand America and get us out of this funk? Does a well designed: policy, structure… or currency, lead to efficiencies and…economic stimulus? And, how do we even go about picking out a design theme for the US of A? Hold an online contest, of course.
The Dollar ReDe$ign projet challenged design firms/ambitious artists/patriots to submit their version of a fresh new currency design. Check out the call-to-action as well as the full list of submissions here. Below are some of our favorites:
In addition to being clever, The Dollar ReDe$ign project also raises a good point. Can design help common, ordinary, everyday people like us understand complex, yet vital economic systems like investment banking and healthcare? I mean, we can barely fill out our taxes every year, let alone grasp the intricate hierarchical balance of our healthcare. If only someone would make it all easier to look at…
In a recent NYT article, Allison Arieff connects the surprisingly powerful effects of beautiful design to economic stimulus.
To be sure, the reasons for the mortgage crisis extend far beyond undecipherable documents but, as the design anthropologist Elizabeth Tunstall explains, people often didn’t understand what they were getting into. Much of the crisis was, quite simply, based on poor information. “The ability to implement policy is contingent on the way people interact with those policies,” Tunstall explains. “This is where the interaction between design and policy comes in.”
Check out some upcoming design initiatives from U.S NDPI that can help make our world a little more beautiful…and manageable.
Which dollar design did you like best? What boring thing do you think needs redesigned? Let us know!
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