Open publication - Free publishing - More draft

I decided to start thinking about these cards more instead of the identity. At the beginning I used the roman numerals as a front to the card so I could think more about the back. Since the briefing we had with Michael I decided not to take the route of actually designing a currency but to offer an alternative. I can understand why they want a currency but at the same time I got the impression that they wanted something different. Garry Barker mentioned that it was a free service and about equality almost in line with marxism and maybe there was something political people could look at. I'm not too comfortable with politics and for the sake of having 3 or 4 days to put a pitch together I didn't want to try and fake some sort of understanding of it. Instead I decided to think about what the actual use of this currency was or should be.

On one hand yes, people can pass them on to eachother and so you know how many hours you have. But thinking about myself and if I was in the system, I honestly don't think I'd keep hold of them. In fact I know they'd get lost at the bottom of my bag or something. Michael mentioned that it was also important that people got in touch with the Time Broker and actually banked the time and that people forgot to do this, this seemed like a genuine problem that could be designed for. Another problem I had with the whole currency thing was that if I had someone helping me for an hour or so with something and then at the end I had to give them pretend money I'd feel really awkward about it but at the same time I'd want them to know I was grateful for the help. So I thought maybe to alleviate this awkwardness the 'currency' could act more as a reminder to bank the hours but combine that with a thank you.

I felt strongly that the website should be made more of a hub for the creatives and that it would also be easy to use this as a method of banking the hours.

With all this in mind, I thought it would be good to use the cards to say thank you and to have something that people could fill out on the back with their username for the site and how many hours the person did for them. This way the person given the hours could go online fill out their hours and the other person could confirm them. In a similar way that friend requests work on facebook. Using a system like this seems like quite a user friendly approach, especially since the amount of people using twitter and facebook is quite high.