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Gadi Amit: Scrip

Designed to pay for things without the need for cash, Scrip is the latest project of the San Francisco-based designer Gadi Amit, founder on NewDealDesign.

Designed by Gadi Amit, founder of NewDealDesign (NDD), Scrip is a universal cash device, that enables payments. It’s been designed to pay for things without the need for cash. Amit believes that current alternative solutions to cash are not working, and Scrip is an attempt to strike a balance between creating something that is connected to the digital world, but that also acts much like cash.

It’s a concept design project being developed by NDD as a physical and emotive reinvention of digital currency. Clad in copper, Scrip seeks to provide an iconic and tangible solution to digital transactions, combining all the benefits of digital currency (efficiency, security, availability) with the all the benefits of the human experience of cash (social, psychological, behavioural).

The device replicates the feeling of cash movement in a physicalised manner using varying motion, digital displays, and material textures to provide the subtle cues the psyche responds to.To make a payment, your thumb moves over the device away from your body, simulating the motion used when counting out old-fashioned cash notes.

Scrip
Design: Gadi Amit – NewDealDesign
Year: 2016

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Gadi Amit: Scrip

Designed to pay for things without the need for cash, Scrip is the latest project of the San Francisco-based designer Gadi Amit, founder on NewDealDesign.

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