A consistent feature with a lot of bank note designs is that as the currency increased, so did the design. This is also the case with the Hungarian animal designs by Barbara Bernát. As the currency increased so did the dominancy of the animal, so starting at a lizard and ending with a horse - the other side had a plant which related to each animal.
The current Sri Lanken £20 note has an owl on, which makes sense as they symbolise wisdom.
Travis Purrington, who designed the $50 note below with the astronaut on, said "I looked at money as a building block that makes modern civilisation possible."
The modernist aesthetic of these notes also links to the modernist ideologies which are communicated through the context of them. The idea of designing something which is in a way more timeless, not celebrating the dead and instead focussing on the future. Also no specific person being on the notes makes them more neutral, linking to the utopian ideals which arrived with modernity.
Lastly the notes folded in to hats for the current faces of bank notes made me laugh, bringing in an element of humour would be fun as this hasn't been done with bank note design yet and would lighten up the serious feel money carries.
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