OUGD505 - SB1 - Design Decisions - Colour

The next stage of the design process was to colour the four different denomination of the newly designed international currency and rather that picking the colours on an aesthetic basis only instead I attempted to inform the colour of the note from the content of the not itself. This means that the cities in question featuring within the denominations have a link with the colour of the bank note that they are on.

The decision was made to experiment with the colour concepts and so for the outcomes two different concept method were implemented. The first of these methods is for the ten and twenty token denomination banknotes, the colour concept for these notes were generated by look at how the colours are perceived in that part of the work due to the fact that the same colour can mean very different things in different countries around the world. The second part of denominations the five and the fifty have more literal and less conceptual concept generations.

The first of the bank notes is the five token denomination, this note features The Statue of Liberty, New York and so the blue colour used for the note was sampled from the flay of New York City.

For the second bank note, the ten token denomination the purple was chosen due to its representation of royalty within England. London is the city of the monarchy and therefore purple is the perfect colour to represent London.

Furthermore the third note is the 20 token denomination banknote the illustrative feature is the oram Towers, Kuala Lumper.  This colour relates to the content of the not contextually due to the fact that in that aria of the world; Eestern Asia Orange as a colour represents spirituality and try acceptance with surroundings and these are big aspects on the religions of the area.

Finally the last banknote, 50 tokens features the Arc De Triomphe, Paris as the illustration. The colour for this not similarly to the five token note was taken from the flat of Paris and therefore has a direct relation to the city.

Instead of having the serial code printed in white not he note like outline in the earlier stage of the project instead now the decision has been made to change this and instead have the serial code go on with he holograms on the noted in the next stage so that it will be a lot more discrete like in the top left note above.