Allison Arieff Begins with Michael Bierut's 'Currency,' Ends with U.S. National Design Policy Initiative

Our writerly crush on Allison Arieff, former editor of Dwell and current editor of Sunset continues, as we read her terrific follow up to Michael Bierut‘s recent pictorial piece in The Atlantic, “Currency Exchange,” wherein he looked at different forms of money from the 1860s to present day, giving little bits of history, insight, and design commentary therein. Arieff’s piece takes the idea of being confounding by money and branches out from there, from the physical stuff you’re holding in your wallet or purse, to the more ethereal concept of money, like on bank websites and those weird little information sheets they include in the junk mail you get all the time trying to get you a new credit card.