Should we really redesign the dollar?
A mini-rant.
05/27/09
“Honestly, anything is better than our new stuff with the pink and the huge heads, looking more and more generic by the day.”
Designers love to redesign. I should know, I’m one of them. But let me rant for a moment: Good designers can do an excellent job of taking a fresh approach to something. The best designers know when to clean the slate, and when not to.
I ran across the designs featured above in an article over at the ISO50 blog. I love these designs. They’re really fresh and they’re really fun. But it was the commentary that caught me: “…anything is better than our new stuff with the pink and the huge heads, looking more and more generic by the day.” Is that really true?
Don’t get me wrong, new designs are fun and sometimes very necessary, but the basic premise of the argument I always hear in the redesign of our money is this: “it’s boring compared to everyone else’s money.”