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Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Re: Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Post by laxd »

Inconel wrote: post #21

Along the same lines as this new passport here are some cool design proposals from Metric[1] and Snohetta[2] for Norway's new banknotes. And a couple of concepts from US based designers[3][4] for US currency designs. [1] http://www.metricdesign.no/work/norges-bank [2] http://snohetta.com/projects/200-design-proposal-for-norway3... [3] http://www.travispurrington.com/2014-usd-proposal [4] http://tyznik.com/currency/ E…

You omitted the best proposal. Link to wayback machine since the images does'nt seem to resolve on original site anymore.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150518212006/http://buzzit.no/...

Edit: Saturday-night-whisky spelling mistake.

Re: Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Post by Inconel »

laxd wrote: post #31
Inconel wrote: post #21

Along the same lines as this new passport here are some cool design proposals from Metric[1] and Snohetta[2] for Norway's new banknotes. And a couple of concepts from US based designers[3][4] for US currency designs. [1] http://www.metricdesign.no/work/norges-bank [2] http://snohetta.com/projects/200-design-proposal-for-norway3... [3] http://www.travispurrington.com/2014-usd-proposal [4] http://tyznik.com/currency/ E…

You omitted the best proposal. Link to wayback machine since the images does'nt seem to resolve on original site anymore. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518212006/http://buzzit.no/... Edit: Saturday-night-whisky spelling mistake.

Those are great, I've never seen them before. I can't decide whether I like the 500 or the 1000 krone note more.

Edit: Here's an additional concept for the British Pound that I forgot to add to my above post.[1]

[1]http://www.travispurrington.com/-2022-british-pound-concept

Re: Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Post by knz »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #33

These are so cool! How do I get one? American passports are so drab in comparison. Another nice passport design is Swiss, but that shouldn't be surprising.

The new US ones aren't too bad (nice pictures and quotes in them) but they are definitely very traditional. My family has a mix of American and New Zealand passports and the US on looks a little boring compared to the kiwi ones!

Re: Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Post by Inconel »

kweks wrote: post #8
cantrevealname wrote: post #5

I've been thinking that the security function served by a passport is very rapidly becoming obsolete (or at least redundant) for travel to most countries in the world. It could be replaced by a plastic photo ID card -- which you could then call a "passport" I suppose. And with strong biometrics, it could be replaced by nothing. Let me explain this with typical cases where a passport is used: (1) You're entering your…

You're totally right, the paper passport could be considered a strange object in a very electronic world. However, in my experience, truly electronically equipped borders are the edge case. The countries that take e-passports without any agent interaction are fee and far between, and typically only service citizens of that country. Perhaps you're fortunate enough to travel in a selection of bleeding edge countries, v…

Apologies for my ignorance but what was the reasoning behind banning travel to Iraq/Afghanistan for citizens of your country?

Re: Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Post by Inconel »

moomin wrote: post #12

I find it hilarious that the related articles includes this: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design... , which basically details how the UK government has managed to make an utter mess of the same exact design space.

Wow, those look awful. The subtitle "Why must the UK passport look like a clumsy photocopied moodboard? is an apt description.

Re: Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Post by therein »

Inconel wrote: post #35
kweks wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're totally right, the paper passport could be considered a strange object in a very electronic world. However, in my experience, truly electronically equipped borders are the edge case. The countries that take e-passports without any agent interaction are fee and far between, and typically only service citizens of that country. Perhaps you're fortunate enough to travel in a selection of bleeding edge countries, v…

Apologies for my ignorance but what was the reasoning behind banning travel to Iraq/Afghanistan for citizens of your country?

He probably has a South Korean passport. The reason behind the ban was safety but I don't think a country should enforce this through such bans.

Re: Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Post by prebrov »

cantrevealname wrote: post #5

I've been thinking that the security function served by a passport is very rapidly becoming obsolete (or at least redundant) for travel to most countries in the world. It could be replaced by a plastic photo ID card -- which you could then call a "passport" I suppose. And with strong biometrics, it could be replaced by nothing. Let me explain this with typical cases where a passport is used: (1) You're entering your…

Majority of countries that allow visa-free entry for citizen from 1st world countries won't have any data on particular citizens.

U.S. Government won't upload a dump of personal data of its citizens to Thailand or Indonesia, would it?

Moreover, if local governments would want this data from everyone let in without a visa (for TH and ID it's almost every country in the world except, probably, Africa) they'd end up with data on roughly 3 bln people. They don't have IT infrastructure to deal with it. This data will also be out of sync the second it's dumped from origins.

So, when you're being processed in Bali by border control on your first entry, the only thing they can do is confirm the validity of your document's physical properties, but not the identity it represents.

Re: Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Post by stordoff »

Inconel wrote: post #32
laxd wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You omitted the best proposal. Link to wayback machine since the images does'nt seem to resolve on original site anymore. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518212006/http://buzzit.no/... Edit: Saturday-night-whisky spelling mistake.

Those are great, I've never seen them before. I can't decide whether I like the 500 or the 1000 krone note more. Edit: Here's an additional concept for the British Pound that I forgot to add to my above post.[1] [1] http://www.travispurrington.com/-2022-british-pound-concept

The GBP notes are an interesting set of designs, but I wish I could see versions that used the current colour scheme (the linked designs mistakenly(?) use green/blue tones for £10 and orange/brown tones for £5, which is the opposite way round to all existing notes. £20 and £50 more accurately match the current notes).

Re: Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

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Post by Inconel »

stordoff wrote: post #39
Inconel wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those are great, I've never seen them before. I can't decide whether I like the 500 or the 1000 krone note more. Edit: Here's an additional concept for the British Pound that I forgot to add to my above post.[1] [1] http://www.travispurrington.com/-2022-british-pound-concept

The GBP notes are an interesting set of designs, but I wish I could see versions that used the current colour scheme (the linked designs mistakenly(?) use green/blue tones for £10 and orange/brown tones for £5, which is the opposite way round to all existing notes. £20 and £50 more accurately match the current notes).

I'm not familiar enough with the GBP notes to have noticed that, thanks for the info. I'd like to see the correct colors used as well, it must be very confusing if you've grown accustomed to the standard colors.
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