The Dollar ReDe$Ign Project Slaps Steve Jobs’ Face On $100 Bill

John Brownlee ()

The Dollar ReDe$Ign Project Slaps Steve Jobs’ Face On $100 Bill

Steve Jobs on the $100 Bill? Why not, shrugs Raffael Hannemann, a German college student contributing to the Dollar ReDe$ign Project.

My intention? There has to be a full-colored US flag on every bank note, and there have to be faces of some of the latest idols on them. Let’s stop looking backwards and focus on the future. This is the time where we live. I’ve chosen Steve Jobs, but why not Zuckerberg, Larry Page or Michael Jackson?

Unfortunately, I doubt that Hannemann’s new design would pass Jobs’ own rigid sense of aesthetics. And really? Steve Jobs on the hundred dollar bill? That’s not even walking around money for the billionaire CEO. Put His Steveness on a benjamin and he’s going to be blowing his nose all over his likeness five times a day.

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  • ged

    I think it’s a cool design! But given the appalling quality of every aspect of design in the public domain in the USA, it is not difficult to make a better design than the current bank note!
    (PS the euro is hardly better, as its design was done a by a committee of tasteless eurocrats from Bruxelles. In contrast. all the old pre-euro bank notes are really quite nice.)

  • http://www.fastchicken.co.nz/ Nic Wise

    I’m not sure about putting Jobs and co on the money, but the design is a LOT better than the bland, BORING green nonsense you lot have at the moment.

    And while you are at it, ditch 1c, 2c and maybe 5c, and get some $1 and $2 coins. Not like the treasury doesn’t have, oh, 2-5bil of them lying around….

  • Joseph

    No complaint about Jobs on a note, but I like this redesign much better:
    http://dowlingduncan.com/dowling-duncan-redesign-us-bank-notes/

  • Brian Erwin

    ummmm……NO!

  • / bill gates

    I think it looks like crap, it’s looks more like monopoly-money then the real deal

  • Rick

    Geez, they can’t even put the dollar sign on the correct side of the number.

  • Thomcarl

    Not to worry, the Feds will never allow this! Or would they?

  • SteveP

    I like the idea of Zuckerberg – on a bill that would automatically track everything and everyone that purchased anything with it!