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Project: Design a World Currency
Name of my Currency: SOL

I designed this last fall quarter at UCLA. This one project encompassed the 3 month long quarter. This f'ing project took SO MUCH OUT OF ME... I swear to god, this project drained the design life blood out of me. I wasn't able to look at or touch Photoshop or Illustrator for at least a month. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done.
Ok here's the background. This 'SOL' currency was the project for my class during my last quarter of school at UCLA. The class was a 'Branding' class. Project description: To design a 'one world currency' Each student designed their own currency based around the idea of a unified World bank. Everyone created their name, logo, denomination, world bank logo, currency name, and 2 actual bills.

So much research and f'ing detail went in to this thing it still blows my mind. You'll only get a 2% feel of what actually went in to this thing by these images.

My description of my currency SOL:

Dependent upon daily and seasonal changes of weather, man often turned to worship the great force that regulated these changes—the light and heat of the Sun. People have worshiped the Sun and the deities who represent the Sun for all of recorded history. Every culture and human being can relate directly to its meaning and significance in life.

For this reason the Sun was chosen to be the basis of this world currency. Each denomination of SOL currency (1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100) will display Sun gods and goddesses from different regions of the world, including architecture and patterns from the related areas and time periods.

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

*UPDATE* I'm still featured on the UCLA Design | Media Arts webpage [link] along with my previous project last year on a tribute to El Lissitzky done in flash [link]

Description
Ok well, here we go.

Project: Design a World Currency
Name of my Currency: SOL

I designed this last fall quarter at UCLA. This one project encompassed the 3 month long quarter. This f'ing project took SO MUCH OUT OF ME... I swear to god, this project drained the design life blood out of me. I wasn't able to look at or touch Photoshop or Illustrator for at least a month. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done.
Ok here's the background. This 'SOL' currency was the project for my class during my last quarter of school at UCLA. The class was a 'Branding' class. Project description: To design a 'one world currency' Each student designed their own currency based around the idea of a unified World bank. Everyone created their name, logo, denomination, world bank logo, currency name, and 2 actual bills.

So much research and f'ing detail went in to this thing it still blows my mind. You'll only get a 2% feel of what actually went in to this thing by these images.

My description of my currency SOL:

Dependent upon daily and seasonal changes of weather, man often turned to worship the great force that regulated these changes—the light and heat of the Sun. People have worshiped the Sun and the deities who represent the Sun for all of recorded history. Every culture and human being can relate directly to its meaning and significance in life.

For this reason the Sun was chosen to be the basis of this world currency. Each denomination of SOL currency (1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100) will display Sun gods and goddesses from different regions of the world, including architecture and patterns from the related areas and time periods.

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

*UPDATE* I'm still featured on the UCLA Design | Media Arts webpage [link] along with my previous project last year on a tribute to El Lissitzky done in flash [link]