Have a say in what your money will look like!

Participate in our survey and share your preferences on the shortlisted themes for the redesigned euro banknotes.

  • sejoki@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    or a European seascape with a beach, where every grain of sand matters, just as every European citizen counts

    Yeah, that’s where I stopped. Maybe stop letting people drown in the ocean. Then we can talk about how a seascape should represent how every person matters.

  • Hairypooper@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oof sounds like one employee there had a good idea (birds), but others were jealous and pushed to have multiple ideas and let citizens vote.

    It’s going to be birds, Karen. Stop talking about your beach and grains of sand.

    • bob_lemon@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, of all the themes in there, birds is by far the best one. Birds are beautiful, there’s a link to Europe itself, it’s really hard to exclude anyone.

      • Muetzenman@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        And it won’t look like a pictogram that misses the point.

        What is the problem with our fantasy bridges? I like them actually.

        • xeekei@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Unless they’re white, then they’re a symbol for peace and get invited to weddings.

  • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.ml
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    The survey is more than abstract and it looks like someone made it in a very old version of Microsoft Frontpage. Also, why didn’t they add ALL the EU member countries in the demographic questions is beyond my understanding: it’s not like they didn’t have space! I’m from Romania and it’s not present in the list… does that mean we’re out?

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Are the euro banknotes vegan? I ask because I heard that the UK used animal fat in the production of their banknotes

  • Kuroshio@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not European so no horse in the race, but most of these ideas suck. Just go with the birds I guess, birds are pretty and tried and tested and timeless. Rivers a close second.

    • Muetzenman@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      The whole thing reads like they made the birds allready and than realised this is a democracy and people should have a say in it so the come up with the pther options so the birds win.

  • barsoap@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m missing two options:

    • First, in the “why do you not like it” detail breakdown, “cheugy”. Some are trying so hard it’s painful to even read I’d rather have no motif at all instead.
    • Secondly, why the hell does it all need to be one theme. We can have one thing on one note and another on another.
    • bilboswaggings
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      1 year ago

      Second one is so checking fast is easy (ofc in most cases a more indepth one is a good idea anyway)

      If every bill is way different someone might think you are trying to use monopoly money, and the guy using the fake money has extra time to get away with it

      • barsoap@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Sure, have a uniform graphic design but that doesn’t mean that you can’t have architecture on one bill and a head on another and a space station on yet another. E.g. Canadian backsides have a gazillion different motifs.

  • HansElbst@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    WHAT something looks LIKE.

    HOW something looks.

    never

    HOW something looks LIKE.

  • MrAlagos@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    I was very afraid that the themes would have been heavily skewed towards things like landmarks, famous people and events, which would plunge the subsequent discussions about the designs into a cesspit of nationalist in-fighting, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by the presence of a number of more sensible options. Not necessarily good, but sensible at least.

    I like the “hands” theme quite a lot, but it might come out a little bad on the graphical side if not well thought out. Still, hands and their symbolism has been present for centuries in Europe to depict values and moral concepts, both religious and secular, I think it could be the best idea to represent abstract European values. I bet that people will just choose the “pretty” option though, so I expect birds, also because it can once again be tied to nationalism.

      • onichama@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        On the next site, you can choose why you like/dislike it. The options there are very limited.

    • notTheGirlFromReddit@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      If you say you rather like it, you only get the options for describing why you like it. If you say you rather dislike it, you only get to describe why you dislike it. Only for the neutral one you get both sets of follow-up options IIRC.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Why do we need new designs, exactly? Never mind that I rarely look at my money closely enough to care all that much what it looks like.

    • ValiantDust@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I’m assuming they are updating the security features to make them as counterfeit-proof as possible. Giving them a new design makes it easier to tell the old ones and the new ones apart.

    • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s not something we need, but I think it’s neat seeing some new designs once in a while.