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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 626415, member: 19065&quot;]Good design is often thought of as a balance between simplicity and complexity. A designer and their design can and must be ideal and realistic simultaneously, blending artistry and business into an effective piece of work.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want a good design it will not be cheap and it will not come about quickly. But if you want a good design done cheaply, it will cannot be produced quickly. Just as a quick, cheap design will be no good.&nbsp; It&#039;s a triangle in which you can only ever have two of the three options under one given request: good, cheap and fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>It applies to all things just as it would when seeking new coin designs that are &quot;very artistic and beautiful, but not (be) overly intricate to cause (the) production problems...&quot; It is and art in and of itself, very difficult to communicate such factors to officials and people less concerned with design principles and philosophy and more focused on the public spotlight, terms in office and public legislative bills they are working to pass, such that design is overlooked or made to take a back seat to budgets and administrative constraints.</p><p><br /></p><p>We do have great designs in place in our coins, a fairly good review system for new designs being proposed and good designers at work for the mint. We also will see better designs in the future and technology will improve to aid in better production so that finer examples of art and commerce will coexist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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