Underworld Currency
Illustration, Imaginative & Narrative
Based on Greek mythology, the “Tartarus” currency aims to illustrate the possible banknotes that will be used in this underworld community for current residents and guests.
Project Information
Creative Brief
Inspired by Greek mythology's Underworld, the "Tartarus" currency project aims to illustrate and bring to life the fictional world of the underworld, bridging the gap between imagination and reality.
Approach
By incorporating graphic elements such as holograms, guilloché patterns, security threads, watermarks, and signatures, and blending them with well-known figures — Hades, Persephone, The Fate Sisters, underworld creatures, and environments, this project challenges the boundaries of design. It aims to create a realistic and convincing representation that brings the fictional world of Tartarus to life.
Results
Overall, the final results of each denomination of these underworld banknotes not only possess distinctive and unique aesthetics, but they are also highly convincing and plausible, thanks to the incorporation of security threads and patterns. This project represents a timeless achievement in my portfolio.
Tools and skills used for this project
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
Details:
What Place :
Underworld
For Group of Residents :
Chthonic gods (Cerberus, Charon, Chronus, Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanthys), goddesses (Persephone, Oneiri, Nyx, Lethe), deties (Erinyes), Newly dead, lost souls, nymphs, daemon, and gorgons.
For Visitors:
Hermes, Hera, Hercules, Aeneas, Dionysus, Heracles, Odysseus, Orpheus, Pirithous, Psyche, and Theseus.
Orpheus in the Underworld by Jan Brueghel the Elder"
Underworld Denomination
"LETHE"
The Lethe (Greek: “Oblivion”) is one of the five rivers of the Hades’s Underworld. Lithe is also a river-goddess, a daughter of Eris (Strife) and she often represents the oblivion. The newly dead have to drink water from this river and they will love lose all memories of their past. Using this currency you will completely forget what you have bought.
HADES
100 LETHE
FEATURES:- Greek: ᾍδης = Hades
- WHO: Hades, a god of the underworld.
- PLACE: Styx River A river of sacred oath and hatred and a boundary between Earth (Gaia) and the Underworld
- CREATURE: Cerberus A multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.
- PLANT: Asphodel There is a place called "Asphodel Meadows" in the underworld where these flowers thrive and many ordinary souls are sent to live after their death.
- Τάρταρος Oἶκος means Property of Tartarus (underworld)
- Code 128 on the 2 edges of the front side is Hades's name
Details
PERSEPHONE
50 LETHE
FEATURES:- Greek: Κόρη = Persephone
- WHO: Persephone, a queen of the Underworld, a Goddess of the dead, life, grain, spring, nature and destruction.
- PLACE: Acheron River A river of pain and sorrow
- CREATURE: Harpy A half-human and half-bird Underworld's creature, a soul snatcher, and Hades's messenger. Persephone was abducted by Harpy to the Underworld.
- PLANT: Rose Rose is one of the flowers among crocus, lily, violet, larkspur, and Iris when Persephone was abducted while the goddess and her companion Nymphs were gathering in a meadow.
- Τάρταρος Oἶκος means Property of Tartarus (underworld)
- Code 128 on the 2 edges of the front side is Persephone's name (Kora)
Different Renditions
Details
SISTERS OF FATE
20 LETHE
FEATURES:- Greek: Μοῖραι = Moirai
- WHO: Moirai (Sisters of Fate), three goddesses of fate who personified the ineliminable destiny of man. Their names were Atropos (Cutter), Lachesis (Allotter), and Clotho (Spinner).
- PLACE: Lethe River A river of forgetfulness. The newly dead has to drink water from this river so they could lose all memory of their past existence.
- CREATURE: Lernaean Hydra A serpentine water monster who guards the entrance to the Underworld from Earth.
- Τάρταρος Oἶκος means Property of Tartarus (underworld)
- Code 128 on the 2 edges of the front side is Moirai's name
Details
Different Renditions
