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Every European (and I guess non-Europeans as well) can vote what our next Euro design will be: https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/
About ten different designs are available and about half of them feature birds instead of boring people.
I really like the bird designs as they symbolise freedom without borders. Hope one of them gets chosen in the end.
It’s weird how they want faces now when the bridges on the current notes are specifically chosen to be fantasy bridges so they are nationally ambiguous. Also don’t see why Maria Callas deserves a spot as if she had such an important impact on European history. It’s like putting DJ Tiësto on the notes in 50 years.
I don't think any person deserves to be on the bills. The birds absolutely do !
I wish they weren't systematically paired with horrifyingly bad architecture on the reverse, but I'll take what I can get...
I like the birds, never been a fan of the faces on the bills.
We like the birds ones but the buildings on the back felt weird, so were leaning towards the ones with people and cultures
I love design D with the recording and spectrograph of the bird calls as anti-copy measures.
I wish they had different animals. Like birds for the 5€ (light), bears for the 200€ (heavy), and different animals in between.
And for the back famous art paintings.
I love how many of these designs are clearly influenced by the old Dutch Guilders bank note designs. See this for a documentary about it on YouTube.
Most of them are ugly as fuck
These ones are fire, but its a bit weird to have an American born woman in the euro notes.
Ich_iel had this
Perfect
Where gay banana?
Somebody should make a similar one with a tilting window
Does anyone find tilting windows annoying?
skill issue
No, I meant that from a different angle - both things have their purpose, but attached bottle caps is something that almost anyone you ask would find annoying.
Initially this was (I guess) more like some typical European things that are not common at all outside of Europe.
I much prefer the birds over the people =w=
I mean, most of the people on there have 0 relevancy to my country, and I imagine it's not an uncommon sentiment elsewhere. Birds at least don't exclude a bunch of countries
I also quite like the vertical/portrait orientation designs in there, I think it would be a cool change
Honestly, I have not seen or heard anyone say, they would like the people on the notes. Those have to exist somewhere, since the people are even a suggestion - but if the design chosen is people, I will 100% believe someone high up specifically decided on it, over what was actually favored.
I much prefer the birds over the people
Same. I hate people
I assume these are in the same order for everyone, but I loved the first set of vertical ones; the ones with might contrast. Most of the designs felt afraid to use color, since the note is supposed to be one color to identify them easily. I honestly think having the high contrast with the birds makes them easier to identify though. 90% of it was still the right color, so that's still easy to see. Having the image stand out just gives it another identifiable piece though, which can't hurt, and it makes them look so much prettier.
I believe they're under the same letters for everyone. I'll include the pictures just in case :3
For me "D"
Is my favourite overall, I love the bright colours on it, though I think the 20 maybe is a bit crowded, with the multiple birds and the security strip it all kinda clashes and you lose the shapes in the middle imo
The other vertical ones with birds ("I" and "J") are my 2 runner ups, (I just think the vertical designs are cool :3), "J"
I think has better colours than "I", and I like that the colouration of the birds is somewhat preserved in the accents on them both. "I"
Overall looks the most rustic/traditional, while "D" the most modern I think.
Yeah, they're all good! For me, I is my favorite. J is a close second. I like that the birds all inhabit approximately the same location on J though, all entering that circle. It's a nice touch. D I feel is too plain, but it may be slightly better functionally. It definitely looks more like currency. I is the most artistic and interesting I think.
I tell you 100% of those people have 0 relevancy to my and many other EU countries
Saying people like Marie Curie have no relevancy to your country just because they are not from your country is a wild statement. Maybe also the reason for why the idea of "Europeans" as a people is not working out yet.
Maybe also the reason for why the idea of “Europeans” as a people is not working out yet.
Now do US South and North.
Birds > people
Putting actual people on banknotes... Have we learned nothing from metoo? WTF?!
Eels said it best: "I like birds"
Im not even that big on birds but the bird designs are so much better than the people ones and also in general i dont think people on banknotes are that good of an idea. Birds on the other hand are something we can all relate to and should think about more cause many species are in danger.
First country to do dinosaurs get me as a citizen.
I mean, technically....
Monkey's paw curls:
If Canada joins the EU, the noble Turkey can appear on the $1 euro note.
And most of the bird designs had buildings 😢
Of course, the birds need toilets!
Not most of them, all had buildings, and it's always the same buildings, too. The buildings are those of the seven official institutions of the EU.
Personally, once I figured that out (and it took me a minute), I much preferred the buildings to the seemingly random scenes on the backs of designs with the famous people. One of the designs also shows the names of the institutions (and birds), which I particularly liked.
Boobies, Great Tits, Bushtits, Dickcissel, Cock-of-the-rock. There are so many options!