ADV @ UNDERCONSIDERATION Peek here for details
BROWSE
Royal Bank of Scotland Currency
Production Method
Gravure
Design
O Street
Nile - Project Management
De La Rue - Printing
Stuco - Illustration
Timorous Beasties - Illustration
Ruari Macdonald - Photography
Printing
De La Rue
With many layers of production and design details this bill marks the beginning of a new era for Scottish currency, where beauty and technology need to come together.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
–
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
–
Number of Colors
–
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Custom modern serif (numerals)
Scottish secretarial script
Project Description
Scotland has new bank notes. The People’s Money project is the culmination of an unprecedented national design collaboration. O Street was thrilled to be a part of the journey from initial engagement through to artwork sign-off by RBS. The new notes are a stark conceptual break from traditional currency, and for good reason—the Scottish public played a direct and leading role in the design process.More than a thousand folk from all over Scotland took part in a series of workshops, surveys and online communities run by Nile. O Street then led creative exercises at preliminary design workshops to help determine the concept and content of the notes. Facing a mountain of post-it notes and other insight, O Street was asked to develop creative routes for the new notes.
We worked closely with currency printer De La Rue to pull it together and deliver.
Production Lesson(s)
We had to address a whole host of technical and process issues inherent in modern currency production. Some were limitations and some were opportunities. The challenge and ultimately the biggest satisfaction, was reconciling these factors into a finished design that was compliant, functional yet remained true to the original creative vision. Though an exercise in new technology, it still had to be beautiful.
About
FPO (For Print Only), is a division of UnderConsideration, celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
FPO uses Fonts.com to render Siseriff and Avenir Next.
FPO is run with Six Apart’s MovableType
All comments, ideas and thoughts on FPO are property of their authors; reproduction without the author’s or FPO’s permission is strictly prohibited
Twitter @ucllc
Sign-up for Mailing List
Mailing list managed by MailChimp
Thanks to our advertisers
About UnderConsideration
UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Bloomington, IN. More…
blogs we publish
Brand New / Displaying opinions and focusing solely on corporate and brand identity work.
Art of the Menu / Cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.
Quipsologies / Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
products we sell
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work.
Brand New Conference videos / Individual, downloadable videos of every presentation since 2010.
Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series.
Other / Various one-off products.
events we organize
Brand New Conference / A two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today's most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
Brand Nieuwe Conference / Ditto but in Amsterdam.
Austin Initiative for Graphic Awesomeness / A speaker series in Austin, TX, featuring some of the graphic design industry's most awesome people.
also
Favorite Things we've Made / In our capacity as graphic designers.
Projects we've Concluded / Long- and short-lived efforts.
UCllc News / Updates on what's going at the corporate level of UnderConsideration.
Related entries