In today’s Times, D-Crit godfather Steve Heller highlights changes made to the new hundred-dollar bill, which will be introduced in February, 2011. It’s a pretty sloppy redesign - gone is the stately-but-highly-counterfeitable old design, replaced instead by a high-tech, security-rich successor. This press release says that the new bill draws on more than a decade of anti-counterfeit research. I’m wondering how much input the Obama administration had on the final design selection, though. The new bill seems to me like a callback to George W. Bush thinking - blatant security apparatus supplanting visual order/pleasantness.
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