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There is a new survey with some design proposals for the themes “European Culture” and “Rivers and Birds”.
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Team birds checking in. There are a couple of people designs I like but birds have a much higher hit rate.
We used to have birds on our money in Canada. Now it’s mostly monuments and buildings. The fiver has the Canadarm on it though, so that one’s cool.
Why only birds, no cats?
Keep it abstract! I love the windows and bridges current theme. Couldn’t we make a new design with the same colors and prompt?
No famous people!
Abstract doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t evoke any feeling or being European or make it stand out as a European bank note. It could be money from some children’s game set.
50 guilders note would like a word. As loved as a banknote design can be
Would be cool to put food on the bills. Imagine a bowl of spaghetti on the 200€ bill.
I would completely remove people and would add fish, plants and monuments.
Birds! 🐦⬛
Why so many birds? Why even animals?
why politicians or buildings?
Some designs are quite decent, but I’m not sure the individuals, birds, activities and buildings depicted, resonate with most Europeans. The individuals are of select member states, the birds might go completely unrecognized, the activities are rather academic, and the buildings of EU institutions? WAY too much self-praise. I would rather see subjects that are more broadly applicable, over ones focused on specific individuals, birds, activities and buildings, like: cultural achievements, landmarks spanning multiple member states (seas, mountains, rivers), infrastructure connecting member states, cultural diversity, cultural values, etc.
It would also be neat if these flashy new notes were actually accepted in physical transactions…
Birds help people get started on their birding journey
I find the backsides with the EU buildings too self-praising. I think the European people have more things that unite, than the buerocratic institutions.
The backsides of the people bills are also too general, I would like to see more of the people’s work or achievements.
Generally I like the current design with fictional bridges and buildings, so no country is preferred.
I also think most of the back sides are just generally uninspired - bland, almost AI-like look, no interesting (or even aesthetic) themes. Many of the front sides I liked, so this is disappointing.
I don’t like the building at all. These are modern building which are not build for millenials.
H and J for me. I prefer birds much more than people on the design and those two designs are actually colorful and distinct from the current more bland colors.
I don’t understand why they included vertical designs and suddenly want pictures of real people on the banknotes when they used to say it is better to have something neutral on there. From the comment here I like B and D most, but I don’t know if the images from the comment are the same as the ones in the survey because I think there were more designs. Still B and D are worse than the current designs.
One of the stated design goals with the existing design is to make them as generic as possible so as not to show favouritism towards a particular country. If you asked me for famous European figures to put on the notes, I’d probably name Beethoven, Curie and Da Vinci, but by including them you’re highlighting a Germany, France/Poland and Italy. The building designs are boring but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The birds are cute, but I’d like to have seen broader nature themes: birds, fish, mammals and biomes would have been nice.
I would have loved a fauna / flower note. Fauna being bird, fish, butterfly (palatable insect), reptile, whale, land mammal.
Bridges were a great idea and maybe other infrastructure like railroads and tunnels as a symbol of connecting countries.
Uff, there are some … daring … design proposals included.
I’m more worried that none of then appeared to have been created with color blind people in mind. Like at least don’t mix green and red. Like 1 in 12 males are color blind and the most common is the red and green one. Source: Wikipedia
Yes, but that I actually really like. They have always been pretty bold in colour already, but some of the new designs match that boldness. Some are unlike any notes I have ever seen which I just think is cool.
I love Weird Europe, some of these banknotes perfectly fit the bill (semi-pun).
Done, some are imo really ugly, strange opaque colours at times too.
I didn’t like most of the proposed notes of the ‘European Culture’ type. Design E was the only one I liked of these.
The birds were all fine to good, although a bit samey tbh.
I’ve voted; but basically all designs are beautiful: colorful, optimistic, modern.
~~The survey isn’t good. They should’ve at least written a comment about each note. I don’t recognise most of the people on there. ~~
Maybe y’all can help out.Here are all the proposals until G. H and I are here (or see comment below).
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H doesn’t load for me 🤔
Thanks. I don’t know why the survey didn’t just show all and then give you the option to give your opinion all at once, nor why they didn’t link to this page.
I think they want to randomise the order to make the results more robust
Never mind, the ECB announced who they are
Front Reverse €5 Performing arts Maria Callas Street performers (music/dance/theatre) entertaining passersby €10 Music Ludwig van Beethoven A song festival with a choir of children and young adults singing €20 Universities and schools Marie Curie Skłodowska A school or university with a female teacher with young students. There are notebooks and books on the tables €50 Libraries Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra A library with some adults reading paper and digital books. A little boy and girl in front of a bookcase trying to get a book €100 Museums and exhibitions Leonardo da Vinci Adults and children admiring some examples of street art, contemporary art, etc. €200 Public squares Bertha von Suttner A tree-covered square allowing people to come together, with adults and children talking, walking, playing, etc. Maria Callas isn’t even European by birth. She’s born in the USA.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra […] was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language […] He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote, a work considered to be the first modern novel. Don Quixote has been labelled by many well-known authors as the “best book of all time” and the “best and most central work in world literature”.
Wow first try and already perfected the artform, why did anyone else bothered writing books? Idiots!
Could have been not the first try. Also best at some point in time does not always mean best forever.
Great of you to put the images here, thank you!
Just for the sake of completeness, that’s not all the series. I really liked series I, for example.
There’s a character limit, unfortunately, and I could not fit them all there.
Of course. Thanks for putting them in the other comments!
Here are the descriptions of the motifs.
It’s naming that the European parliament is on the lowest bill, while the unknown institution european court of auditors and the UN demographic european council are on the highest.
Parliament on the lowest bill: Yes, disgraceful.
Court of auditors on the 200€ bill: Well, when do ordinary people use this bill anyway? Conversely, I like the idea of giving a subtle reminder about the Court of Auditors to those who primarily handle high-denomination bills. (Plus, this bill is first in line for being potentially discontinued, like the 500€ before it, so little sense to have more important institutions on it.)
