The Seventeen Dollar Bill
2006 Holiday Money Gift Envelope

I have a firm belief that cash is not a bad holiday gift, as long as it is presented sincerly and with good intentions, instead of being a cop-out gift in an act of negligence. As a result, during the holidays in 2006, I created this gift envelope completely from scratch to hand out my monetary gifts to my friends and family that season.

I acquired some stock photography for this project, and I created my own die-cuts. Carefully measuring the structure of modern currency, I spoofed the American dollar in my own essence, and created a pocket for my gift to go into.

And not wanting the actual laborious part of the gift to be simply tossed upon redemption of the cash, I designed it in a manner that with the enclosed and pre-attached tape, it could be folded into a pyramid-shaped structure, that could be free-standing, like a satirical photograph of myself.