HUMANIA Celebrates 1st Banknote Design Submissions

In December 2020, the global cash community joined forces in an initiative called HUMANIA to support people who have been most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

HUMANIA then launched a currency design programme, inviting designers to capture a moment from the pandemic and depict it in banknotes or coins. HUMANIA is now pleased to announce the first submissions of banknote designs and artwork for this programme.

According to HUMANIA, the global cash community has already reacted to the ongoing crisis and consequent hardship experienced by societies worldwide through a diverse number of individual initiatives, driven by community members, which are making a real difference for millions of people.

HUMANIA aims to complement these initiatives by leveraging the unique characteristics of cash to help restore hope and support the people in society who have been most affected by the pandemic in their efforts to recover and rebuild. It aims to achieve this by: 

• Raising funds and awareness to support post-COVID-19 recovery.

• Paying tribute to those who have been on the frontline during the fight against the pandemic.

• Demonstrating that cash connects people in a crisis thanks to its unique attributes: universality, resilience, trust.

Through the currency design programme, HUMANIA is inviting designers to tell their story by capturing a moment in time from the COVID-19 pandemic and depicting it visually in the form of a banknote or coin. ‘These designs are intended not only to help us remember and celebrate those special people who demonstrated an exceptional degree of courage, humanity, and solidarity, but also to directly contribute to raising funds to help societies most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic’, it says.

The first organisations to submit artwork and design material are SICPA, CCL Secure, Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions, KURZ and Independent Currencies.

‘The HUMANIA initiative continues, and the more people who participate, the stronger our impact will be. We count on you to take a little time to give something back to our world – have a little fun by visually telling a story, provide prepress or production services for a particular design, help market and distribute the final product’, said the organisers.

Plans for the next phase in terms of production, distribution and marketing, are being drawn up in conjunction with the cash community, but in the meantime is still time for companies and individuals to submit their designs.

To find out more about HUMANIA please visit www.HUMANIACURRENCY.com or email info@HUMANIACURRENCY.com.