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By Arlam

A new online project called Make Your Franklin calls on artists and designers to put their own creative stamp on the $100 bill.

“We launched [Make Your Franklin] because we wished to make an international artist community around one unique question: money,” project founderMartin Joubert told Wired.com in an e-mail. “That’s why we used the $100 bill — everyone around the world know what it represents.”

The bare-bones Make Your Franklin website is based in Paris. It launched March 20 and invites anyone to download a monstrous JPG of the $100 bill and “rebuild the banknote.” Since that time, the project organizers have received almost 300 submissions, but filtered some due to blatant offensiveness and repetition of ideas — many replaced Benjamin Franklin’s mug with The Joker. Accepted designs are aggregated in a Make Your Franklin gallery for all to see.

“Our biggest dream is to make a book with the most beautiful Franklins,” Joubert, 20, said about the future. “The goal is to make a sustainable project.”

We’ve selected a handful of our favorites in the gallery above.

Images courtesy Make Your Franklin