{"id":9671,"date":"2017-02-12T22:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T22:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/why-do-passports-and-banknotes-have-to-be-like\/"},"modified":"2017-02-12T22:12:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T22:12:21","slug":"why-do-passports-and-banknotes-have-to-be-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/why-do-passports-and-banknotes-have-to-be-like\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Why do passports and banknotes have to be like this \u2013 clumsy montages of national symbols in an 18th-century style?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s because they\u2019re all mostly designed and printed by the same firm, DeLaRue of Basingstoke, purveyor of high-security printed matter since 1821. They do exceedingly fine ridge intaglio printing, exquisite watermarks and multicoloured UV stitching \u2013 plus many more secret techniques we\u2019ll never be allowed to know about (that\u2019s why they won the \u00a3400m 10-year contract for UK biometric passports) \u2013 but they could do with hiring some better graphic designers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/architecture-design-blog\/2015\/nov\/05\/design-blunders-of-the-new-uk-passport-a-very-british-mess\">A very British mess: the many design blunders of the new UK passport | Art and design | The Guardian<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.iamdanw.com\/\">iamdanw<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do passports and banknotes have to be like this \u2013 clumsy montages of national symbols in an 18th-century style? Perhaps it\u2019s because they\u2019re all mostly designed and printed by the same firm, DeLaRue of Basingstoke, purveyor of high-security printed matter since 1821. They do exceedingly fine ridge intaglio printing, exquisite watermarks and multicoloured UV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2vZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}