Saw this video and had to share! Created by Rethink Communications for Design Currency: Icograda Design Week In Vancouver. It’s a beautiful piece and kind of blew my mind when I first came across it. Here’s the blurb:

Design Currency 2010 is a conference taking place in Vancouver April 26-30. To promote the conference we developed a stop-motion video showing the value of design. Using 2218 individual bills, 1 money counter and 1 long night of filming we came up with the following. Have a look.

There’s also a great set of behind the scenes photos on Flickr! Lots more just like the one above. I’m still trying to figure out if they filmed a short stack at a time, or if the whole thing was stop motion like it mentions in the description. Either way it’s a really cool animation. The technical trial and error must have made the project a blast to work on.  Sadly a lack of funds (curse you mortgage!) won’t allow me to register to get past the velvet rope of the event itself and meet other creative people like these! I wonder if they take design currency?