On the money

Chapter 1

Snøhetta: redesigning the Norwegian banknote

Oslo-based design firm Snøhetta has given Norway’s banknotes a striking redesign befitting of the nation’s newly minted status as a Nordic design capital. Managing director of brand design Martin Gran tells us about the project.

Chapter 2

Vladimir Dulovic

Since the dissolution of Yugoslavia, three of the new western Balkan nations (if you recognise Kosovo) now use the Euro, while the other four have their own currency. As you’d expect from a region with a history of ethnic conflict, cash still carries symbolic meaning beyond its monetary value. Monocle’s Belgrade correspondent Guy De Launey meets historian Vladimir Dulovic.

Chapter 3

Ben Alsop

The Citi Money Gallery at the British Museum documents over 4,000 years of money from around the world in all its variety and complexity. Curator Ben Alsop gives us a tour and explains how world history is reflected in coin design.

Chapter 4

Adrian Shaughnessy

Adrian Shaughnessy is the co-founder of London-based publisher Unit Editions and one of the editors of its new book ‘Graphic Stamps’. He joins us in the studio to explain how stamps have acted as tiny canvasses for great graphic art.