Graphic designer Andy Castillo is proposing that the license plates for vehicles in the Dominican Republic should identify the province or the National District from where the vehicle is registered. Castillo is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design in New York and is a professor at the Altos de Chavon School of Design.
Castillo argues that the nation’s license plates highlight the variety of colors and cultural elements that uniquely identify the Dominican Republic.
As reported by Yaniris López in Listín Diario, Castillo’s idea is to change the mundane present license plates for plates that include natural icons. Castillo also envisions incorporating security systems as a measure to reducing crime. The license plates would incorporate QR reading and hologram.
Castillo registered the idea in the National Copyright Office (ONDA) in 2013.
He said he got the idea after living in the United States and noticing that each license plate identified from where the vehicle was from.
The artist can be contacted at castillorivas2010@gmail.com
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Listin Diario
25 May 2017
