The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 52, December 7, 2003, Article 22

TEXAS QUARTER DESIGNER ARTICLE

  The Dallas/Ft. Worth Star-Telegram published an article
  about the designer of next year's Texas state quarter.

  "[Daniel] Miller's winning design, announced by Gov. Rick
  Perry's office Nov. 17, features a five-pointed Lone Star
  superimposed on an outline of the state. A rope design will
  border the coin."

 "Miller rejected a longhorn and an armadillo after deciding
  that no single critter could represent the entire state.  He finally
  put about 100 hours into the design before rushing to the post
  office on the day of the deadline for the competition."

  "... Miller isn't worried about how many Texas quarters are
  made. The honor is enough for Miller, who is an art director
  for Practitioners Publishing Co. in Fort Worth. Much of  his
  work involves creating materials for CPAs.

 "You can imagine how exciting that is," he said."

  To read the full article, see:

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/states/texas/arlington/7402594.htm

  [Now we know why many of the state quarter designs are
  so shallow.  They are designed by laypeople and graphic artists
  who work in two dimensions and may have little understanding
  or appreciation of the sculptural arts.  The third dimension of
  relief never comes into play.   The paltry $1,000 stipend the
  mint is offering to "artists"  seems likely to attract more writers
  of accounting manuals than true artists.   Medallic artist Alex
  Shagin is quoted in an article on coinage redesign in the January
  2004 issue of COINage magazine as follows: "The fact that the
  mint won't credit the artists who designed the coins, as opposed
  to the engraver who simply takes someone else's design and
  sculpts it, indicates to me it does not care about art." ("The
  New Counterrevolution: Coinage Redesign Champions Are
  Concerned About the Future" by Jon Blackwell)  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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