We were asked to flip through the pages and look
through all the images of our textbook.
I suddenly stopped on one single page. On the 23-120 of
p.520, I see the banknotes of my own country. The text on the next page
mentioned the graphs on these banknotes represent the culture of the country of
issue. The shown notes are Hong Kong’s banknotes. Beyond this, those are the
banknotes I use since I was a kid, till now.
On front sides of the banknotes,
we could see the animals of Chinese legends. On the other sides, there are the
views of certain famous place of Hong Kong. Yes, the graphic design of the banknotes should be able to
represent the characters of the certain country. Users should be able to know
the country of issue by looking at the banknotes. Nevertheless, I am here to
put forward the failure of graphic design of Hong Kong’s banknotes. Let’s see
the comparison!
Hey! What's that?! Mathematic? Or certain kind of sight we
see when we get drunk? This shown graphic design here should be on a higher-level
mathematic book, instead of being on a ten dollar note. This purple
banknote is exactly the new ten dollar note of Hong Kong, but I just don't
understand what characters of Hong Kong it represent to. Nowadays, I
realized that some of the design run far away from the principle and never come
back.
I know that everyone has different sense of beauty. Reading
the histories of graphic design, we should always ask ourselves what the
histories teach us. Histories are incredible because people learn from
histories. Histories are nothing if no one learn. While reading this book, it's
always good time to think about WHY people made good design and HOW the designs
become remarkable.
Works Cited
Meggs, Philip B., Purvis, Alston W., Meggs History of Graphic
Design: Fifth Edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. Print.
