Artists design Greece's new currency – in pictures

Cartoonist Stephen Collins: 'This is called Cheer Up Greeks. I wanted to gently suggest a bit of perspective on the financial dreadfulness by indicating that things could be worse.' Photograph: Stephen Collins

The reverse view of Stephen Collins's Cheer up Greeks bank note design. Photograph: Stephen Collins

Art critic Jonathan Jones: 'The translation is "This Is Not €20". I thought René Magritte’s painting This is Not a Pipe – a painting of a pipe with this phrase written under it – might offer a suitably philosophical way for Greece (the land of Plato, let’s not forget) to transmute one thing into another.' Photograph: Jonathan Jones

Illustrator Rob Ryan: 'Achilles and that damned heel of his. He’s holding on his spear the letter omega, the last letter of the alphabet – the end.' Photograph: Rob Ryan

The artist Bob and Roberta Smith: 'The euro was the German mark. Now it is the Question Mark.' Photograph: Bob and Roberta Smith