Name: The Color of Money: Currency Design as a Cultural Self-Portrait
Start: 2026-10-08T10:30:00-0400
End: 2026-10-08T11:00:00-0400

The Color of Money: Currency Design as a Cultural Self-Portrait

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT

Lecture Hall

We often think of money in purely economic terms, but it is also one of the most widely circulated visual artifacts that a country produces. Unlike art, monuments or even consumer goods, currency circulates constantly, reaching people across geographic regions, socio-economic classes, and generational brackets. As currency passes from hand to hand, its images of people, places, and symbols become so familiar that we don’t even notice them, but they tell a story about what is considered worthy of public recognition—of who and what deserves to be honored and remembered—subtly reinforcing particular narratives while excluding others. Drawing on examples from multiple contexts, this presentation will explore the ways in which currency design serves as a kind of cultural self-portrait, revealing how a nation sees—or wants to see—its history, its values, and its identity.

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Eva Brumberger

Professor, Arizona State University

Eva is a professor of technical communication at Arizona State University. Her research interests include visual literacy, visual rhetoric, information and document design, and visual communication pedagogy. She has published in a variety of journals and co-edited an award-winning... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
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