Mahdi Bucks
A gimmick currency my friends and I made for my birthday party — now free for anyone to download, print, or use as wallpaper.
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Mahdi Bucks started as a gimmick toy my friends and I put together for my birthday party — a fake currency with no purpose beyond having something ridiculous to hand out that night. It's outgrown the party since: grab it as a PNG, print the full sheet as a PDF, or set it as a wallpaper — whichever you actually want to do with it.
The idea
A birthday party felt like the right excuse to design something with zero commercial purpose — a gimmick currency made just for one night, printable and shareable rather than locked up as a one-off keepsake. It's the kind of project that only happens because nobody asked for it.
The design
The bill is built directly on the real hundred-dollar layout: the green ink, the serial number, the 'ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS' denomination. The swaps are the whole joke — 'THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' becomes 'THE UNITED STATES OF SWAG', 'FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE' becomes 'CMON DARGIE NOTE', the Treasury seal reads MOMAMENTALITY, and the portrait oval, usually reserved for a president, holds a photo of me standing outside a shop fridge.
Create your own
Put your own face on the note. Pick a photo, drag it into place, and take it away as a PNG or a wallpaper. It all happens on your device — the photo is never uploaded anywhere.
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Into circulation
The point was always to hand it out, not frame it. It ended up as a running prop for the rest of the year — fanned out for photos on a rooftop at night, at a club, wherever it made sense to flash a stack of fake hundreds for the bit. That was the whole run for a while — now the note's free to download as a PNG, the full sheet as a PDF, or a matching wallpaper, so it doesn't have to stay a party-night thing.
