Thank you for your comments! I'm actually toying around with a second design, but that's just in the beginning stages, in the meantime:
Tokens-girl: 'who did these?' - I did!
Tom-Bear: I had a similar concern with using the Queen's image. In the end I figured that there are enough Canadians that are worthy of being on our money, and that she's on every coin denomination anyway... But I like the idea of the Queen on the $5, makes a nice continuity with the coins and the bills.
Rupiah: I've always had an interest in the design of our money, not sure why... There are certain things that always struck me as patently Canadian, like the typeface treatment. In these bills I use the word 'Canada' in the same way as just about every Canadian stamp was designed in the 70s. (this treatment was also used in a variety of other places, not just stamps) In my eyes it almost became a kind of logo, this practice has been abandoned, I can understand designers wanting a bit more latitude, but I wanted to bring that back... While making these, one always comes to certain points in the process where there are several interesting directions one could take the design. I feel that while these are good I'd like to investigate something where the color plays a less heavy or dense role. So I'll probably be trying out some alternate things in a month or two when I have a few more days free. I'll post them here again when I'm done. In the meantime, any comments or suggestions are welcome!
Seth: Actually when I started these I had a slightly different group. Instead of Laurier (great image) I had Josiah Henson, and instead of Viola Desmond I had Therese Casgrain... Then I found out that Ms. Desmond was going to be on the $10, so I changed things around...
