A few days ago a friend of mine told me that we could vote for what new banknotes would look like. I check the info on the website of the Swiss National Bank and gosh i was disappointed... i think the curent banknotes and the one before are/were way better than the different choices we have, but hey i'm open minded so let's check what i could have in my pocket in a few month/years.
From far and without going into the details of each of the 12 we can see the colors of each set and some stand out as really ugly in my option (A, D, E, F, H). On all the left i like the most coloured one the B and K, sadly the designs on the B i think are ugly therefore i would be more incline to the K.
One of the side of the banknotes are way morel likable than the other in my option, the "front" slide with the whole mountain/lake/ect thing is really nice especially it is what most people will connect Switzerland to. The back is really nice too, with many elements connected to the "Swiss quality/Swiss precision or Swiss culture". Except the 10CHF bank note honestly no idea who is deep diving in Switzerland except the army in some lakes because they dropped to many ammo in the lake (Swiss joke, because a few lakes in Switzerland are infested with bullets and other military stuff). I really like the 200CHF & 1000 CHF notes. Sadly it's the two notes i have the less often haha.
How did the artist comme with this ?
(To get all the informations about all the banknotes check https://www.newbanknoteseries.ch/detailview.html?lang=en)
One of the point i found pretty audacious was this one "We invited friends and family to share their 'Swiss moments' – gathering over 4,000 photos that became the basis for our copyright‑free visuals (some enhanced or generated using AI)." In the end is it not what a banknotes should feature ? A mix of how Swiss people see there own country. Some might argue that using AI in this context is not good, but i don't really care if made by ai or not but even if i personally voted for this option i don't think everyone will agree, the only thing me and my friend agreed on is that new banknotes will be less good than the current one.