Moving on from the unsuccessful printing attempts with the last design, a much simpler more abstract approach was taken to better fit the design to the screen printing process. This meant losing much of the detail, using bolder lines and limiting the amount of design components on the note. In each grid section, which is still retained from the previous design, a symbolic representation of deforestation is designed.
The hexagonal dots are meant to represent the aerial view of chopped down trees, representing the stumps. Hexagons were chosen instead of circles because of the unique shape of stumps.
Because of how the roots of a tree protrude out from the shape of the stump, the pointed edges of the hexagon best represented that.
The scattered lines are meant to represent strewn logs across the land after chopping down the trees. The sequence of curvy lines are representative of the patterns seen in Malaysian palm oil deforestation, as shown below.
Above that are the sequence of rectangles that are meant to represent the large fields left behind after deforestation as shown below.
Finally in the last section, the disivision of white and black is to represent the the weirdly straight edged process of deforestation as seen below.
The typeface used has been updated as well. Previously in the initial designs there was a change from serif to sans serif font. This was done to communicate a modern note. However the change was arbitary and uninformed. With this typeface MicroSquare, the thick stems, squared off edges make the type look almost digital, robotic or even futuristic. What this does to the notes overall look is that it brings it up to the 21st Century. Many note designs today use serif fonts that reflects the history of the country and is appropriate to the intaglio style of illustration used. With this notes overall theme, it is looking to the future, looking to warn the future generations of the destruction of destruction. Therefore to fit this theme of looking foward, a modern typeface is used. Furthermore the sans serif characteristic is appropriate to the style of illustration used on the notes design.
The inclusion of the world below the 20 is to highlight how this currency is a world currency and the matter at hand is a global issue. This style was chosen as opposed to a realistic vector because of how it was appropriate to the overall look of the note's design as well as preventing errors similar to the previous print. In keeping with this world theme, the currency of the note is also changed. Terra is a word that means Earth in Latin and in many other languages. This not only is a unique name for Earth that lends itself to a currency's name, but because of its widespread familiarity, the name isn't contextually misappropriate as well.
Taking this to feedback, there was a comment that the bottom black bar was unnecessary. Instead what should be done is to build on one the abstract design. To bring it down to the margins, remove the black bar and shift the currency's name to the side.
This is the resulting design. Simply bringing down the abstract deforestation designs would skew the dimensions. Furthermore because of the purposely designed grid sequence, any additions on the bottom disrupted the visual balance. The solution was to include ferns leaves. The purpose of this is to give the viewer a more contextual reference of the notes design. Without any explanation, the notes design could represent anything, with the these additions, it gives the note more relation to deforestation.
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