{"id":7715,"date":"2026-07-28T07:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:21:05","slug":"nature-or-culture-europeans-can-vote-on-the-new-banknote-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=7715","title":{"rendered":"Nature or Culture? Europeans Can Vote on the New Banknote Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/euro-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Nature or Culture? Europeans Can Vote on the New Banknote Design\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What best represents European life? The eternal dichotomy of nature vs. culture structures the Central Bank\u2019s quest for a new banknote design, and now, the public can vote and offer feedback on ten proposals. <\/p>\n<p>A panel of jurors selected the designs, which follow one of two themes: European places and ideas or birds and rivers, the latter of which is meant to symbolize freedom and unity. While the basic elements are the same\u2014all collections devoted to culture feature the same six figures, including Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, composer Ludwig van Beethoven, scientist Marie Curie, opera singer Maria Callas, and authors Bertha von Suttner and Miguel de Cervantes, for example\u2014individual approaches appear in the layout, aesthetic, and composition.<\/p>\n<p>Voting is open through mid-September, when jurors will select one design that will go through an additional vetting process before the organization adopts it entirely. View all ten on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/euro\/banknotes\/future_banknotes\/html\/all-design-proposals.en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the bank\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/euro-4.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of potential designs for euros\" class=\"wp-image-476224\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rudy Guedj and Fran\u00e7ois Girard-Meunier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/euro-5.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of potential designs for euros\" class=\"wp-image-476226\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Neue Gestaltung GmbH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/euro-1.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of potential designs for euros\" class=\"wp-image-476223\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Atelier Goppel-Toperngpong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eruo-2.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of potential designs for euros\" class=\"wp-image-476222\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rubio &amp; del Amo and Cruz m\u00e1s Cruz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2026\/07\/euro-banknote-design-central-bank\/\">Nature or Culture? Europeans Can Vote on the New Banknote Design<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What best represents European life? The eternal dichotomy of nature vs. culture structures the Central Bank\u2019s quest for a new banknote design, and now, the public can vote and offer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}