1.
2. Inspired on the Dutch banknote designer Ootje Oxenaar and his designs for
the EURO competition (which he lost because his Austrian competitor was in
favour) I have made the head and footer bar plain white with a slight color
gradient. This makes gives the design somewhat more rest.
3. If possible, please add the definitive chose holographic foil motiv since to
my knowledge this is the one used within the first draft.
4. The micro pattern is more detailed and bears more squares and rectangles. I
will add the chosen patterns into one file so the design department of KJE
(Mike Vos) will have them at his disposal.
5. Instead of a circled pattern, a guilloche flower would we be preferable to
our opinion.
6. The footer bar is the same like the header bar, inspired on the EURO design
by former KJE designer Ootje Oxenaar.
7. The header and the footer bar are plain white and one could think of adding
a slight but only a slight color gradient to it, just like Oxenaar’s design.
8. In the front and in the back, we would recommend in seeing ‘stars’ back
within the design, maybe slightly dissolved or watermarked but we would
recommend in seeing them back since they are also to be seen in the current
Memo Euro design.
9. We love and welcome the idea with the ‘6 star’ version and when one looks
closer, one would see 12 stars. We recommend of only using them in de backside
of the design on that particular spot.
10. We love the typical way KJE puts in the serialnumber and we would welcome
to if possible add the serialnumber on the back instead of the front on that
excact spot.
11. We love ‘The Fleischmann – music bar – dedicated to +300 years KJE history)
a lot and we suggest just like the Euro designs from Ootje Oxenaar to also see
them at the back of the banknote.
12. The background pattern bears to much circles and we would prefer to use a
pattern which resembles the current Memo Euro designs since we designate to put
landmarks to the background as we did with banknotes like Turkey and Israel.
13. We have
given it consideration to test a few models, the familiar 0 one but also
looking to 4 to max. 5 numbers just as an example how it would look like on the
front and on the back of the banknote.
14. The footer bar is white and one could think of adding a slight gradient to
it but nothing more I would suggest.
MICROTEXT
We would suggest putting something with a teasing historical text as microtext
and these would be the following words, sentences and numbers:
‘NE TROP HAUT, NE TROP PAS’ (famous quote KJE)
EUROSCOPE (issuer)
IZAAK ENSCHEDE (founder)
WPPERTAL (founding place of EUROSCOPE)
HAARLEM (founding place KJE)
R.D.E. OXENAAR (homage to one of the best banknote designers in the world)
1814 (start KJE)
2021 (year of this design)
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