OUGD406: Studio Brief 02 - Licence to Print Money (Displaying the Design)

As for displaying the piece my plan is to use very thin metal wire to piece the top corners of each piece to hold it together with an inch or so gap between them to separate them as shown below.

Once the designs have been cut down they should all align relatively perfectly so that the design will look flush from frontal view.

Although the metal wire would hold it all together it wouldn't retain the equal distances between the sheets so I would need something to hold it from the bottom. The first two things I thought of were to have a wooden or acrylic block that would have laser cut grooves engraved so that each sheet could sit within it.

After speaking to my tutor about the proposed idea, it was suggested to use something smaller and less bulky as this would potentially end up being big and heavy. He said to possibly instead think along the lines of using a thick stock instead of wood or acrylic.

I had ordered several sheets of different thick stock, some clear and some frosted just so that it wouldn't take away attention from the bank note when displayed. My first idea was to layer up pieces of this and have slots within each of them so that each piece of the bank note would slot into them.

But it soon became apparent that this wouldn't work as the sheets of stock wouldn't hold the weight of the top of the note and would ultimately end up falling over.

My next idea to resolve this issue was to have the same shape of the same stock, but this time to slot each part of the bank note into a slot in either side of the stock. This would then hold roughly the bottom 1/3 of the note in place thus meaning it wouldn't fall over.

I ultimately decided upon using the glass clear 700gsm stock as it was sturdy enough to hold the bank note in place whilst being clear the same as the acetate sheets so that this didn't ruin the overall aesthetic.