Posted on 08/31/2010 8:30:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
British graphic design firm Dowling Duncan has come up with a series of controversial ideas for the Dollar Redesign Project, an open competition run by New York designer Richard Smith (and not associated with the US government). According to their ambitious PR spiel: “we want to rebrand the US Dollar, rebuild financial confidence and revive our failing economy.”
The new garish multicolour notes conceived by the firm bear a striking stylistic resemblance to the Euro, and remove America’s Founding Fathers altogether. The company has proposed replacing George Washington with Barack Obama on the new dollar bill, and Benjamin Franklin with Franklin D. Roosevelt on the $100 dollar note.
Dowling Duncan, whose corporate clients include some big names such as Apple, Gap, Google, HP and Microsoft, obviously think this is a smart PR move, designed to win it global publicity and enhance its profile in the States where it has an office in San Francisco. But I very much doubt it will play well outside of diminishing left-wing circles on the East and West Coasts. If anything the publicity it gains with its Barack Obama stunt is highly likely to lose it business rather than bring in more revenue, especially in Middle America.
For a start, Barack Obama has an approval rating in the US that is in freefall, and is swiftly becoming one the most unpopular presidents in modern American history. He isn’t doing much better across the Atlantic either, where his reputation has taken a significant hit over his relentless bashing of BP. Domestically, Obama’s stock has fallen so dramatically in recent months that even his own party increasingly views him as an electoral liability.
Linking the image of Obama to rebuilding financial confidence and reviving the US economy would be regarded as simply ludicrous...
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
I think we could come up with a much more appropriate place/product to put our wonderful president’s image on.
The dollar bill? No. The three, OK.
Foodstamps would be so much more appropriate.
Contest over someone already came up with the ultimate product to put Barry's visage on!
We don’t put living politicians on our money. And I’m in no hurry to have that guy be dead. Out of office, yes. Dead, no.
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Download them, print them out, pass out to friends, leave at restaurants, give to people, leave on tables or at the main office copier. Spread these around. Make sure to put the back image along with the front, the point is to capture attention with the front, get them to turn it over and start reading about the bill and hopefully shocking them to get engaged opposing it.
Contest over someone already came up with the ultimate product to put Barry's visage on!
What in the heck...?????
Hmmm. Pesos, occupation script or monopoly money? Which is it?
I think a wooded nickel would be more appropriate.
Remember the old cliche’ “ Don’t take any wooden nickels”
I’m not sure, but I think there’s a +50 years rule too.
Charmin, Scott paper should join the contest!
Out of office, yes. Dead, no.
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Same here. I want him to see while the whole leftist machine that has been insinuated into the US is removed, bolt by screw by cog until none of it remains.
I want him to know that he precipitated the utter and final demise of all he holds dear, that took generations to build.
Those look like medicine boxes.
Then again, if they printed in on soft enough paper...
If he is on a bill, he should be behind bars in prison stripes.
And with inflation going the way it is, in very near future, this trillion dollar bill might get a cup of coffee at 7-11...
His nose is not high enough. When the position is right you can see through is nose the sunlight shining in through his ears. Zerobama. Communist.
Does anyone remember the crack he made that was something to the effect of - People don’t like me cause I don’t look like the dead presidents on money. - I’m paraphrasing here, I don’t remember his exact statement, but it was something similar to that. Notice the only two presidents so honored are both socialists. If he wants to really be a bigger joke than he already is he should print this money. It will only hasten the end of whatever little power he will have left.
NONE Of the ABOVE, especially the 2 most dispicable bastards in our history FDR and Obama!!!!
He deserves to be on the food stamps.
Isn’t this akin to the silhouttes of enemy ships and planes that fighter planes used to display on their tails?
his picture already is in every deck of cards...
Because of the historic implications of his presidency, I believe his likeness on American currency would be quite appropriate but being on the one dollar bill would be a disservice. I believe we should wait a few months and have him placed on America’s first one billion dollar bill as a better statement of his legacy.
Well, he’s been telling us for some time now that he is ‘The One’.
He hasn’t learned complete sentences yet so he made quite a row when stating his right to deity status in an awkward meeting with Republicans by announcing with a proud sneer... “I One”
I’m not crazy about these redesigns by any stretch but I do think it would be cool to have the Bill of Rights printed verbatim on something like the $20 bill.
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