NonCents is the work of a group of design students from the University of Washington. They have created an exhibition that uses interactive parking meters and an indoor display to explore reasons why the penny should be removed from circulation.
The Wall Street Journal recently delved into this issue when it published an article about the newly redesigned penny. The article is clearly in favor of abolishing the one cent piece, citing production costs as the main reason.
They explain:
In a 2006 editorial in the Journal, Harvard economist Greg Mankiw made a simple case for getting rid of the penny. “The purpose [...]
