Where’s George? A currency tracking project
Posted: February 1st, 2010 | Author: ajrigau | Filed under: DesignWork, Personal, Travel | Tags: dollar, information architecture, travelling, Where's George | No Comments »
This past week, while visiting Raleigh, I came across this particular $1 dollar bill from the Where’s George project.
This exercise consists of a series of bills that have been tagged, marked, and released into the open public as an experiment that will hopefully lead to a better understanding of how currency travels. It works something like this: once a person comes across one of these bills, before it’s passed along, he or she can register it on a website and write about how the currency was acquired. The website then keeps track of how the bill moves around, and if you choose to, it can notify you of further movement of your bill.
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