002 Tom Badley – Offline Cash

Graphic designer and artist Tom Badley shares with us his journey practicing as both a designer and artist, banknote design, digital art, his design of Offline Cash, and his book, Art & Money. LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE: Apple Podcasts “Everything must be destroyed before we start over.” Show Notes Tom Badley’s website, buy the Art & Money book Blockchain wikipedia article, OECD Blockchain Primer (PDF) Offline Cash Transcript Tom Badley: [00:00:00] My name is Tom. I’m a artist and graphic designer, and now published author, and, I’m talking from Central Europe.  The journey to, actually designing bank notes, was not straight. Bank notes is always something , that has interested me, when I was a kid and I already forgot about ’em when I was in, in art college. but I remember immediately graduating in 2008, um, when the markets were crashing. My interest really peaked on, what is money? And I started asking those questions for the first time and went down a rabbit hole. It was just this natural thing. I started making banknote designs, on an amateur basis really. And they got more and more sophisticated and more and more evolved. Eventually I had a portfolio of this design that looked something like banknote Design, but wasn’t really. Sort of based on anything, technically correct, but was my amateur attempts at it. [00:01:00] And that went on for a number of years whilst I was doing also all sorts of other things. Eventually I had this portfolio that, that led me to being hired by the banknote industry. When I came out of the industry