Today we will see the bio of the person who designed the symbol of the Indian Rupee. It is D. Udaya Kumar.
D. Udaya Kumar born on 10th October 1978 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. D. Udaya Kumar pursued his doctoral studies at Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. Udaya received his Master’s degree, MDes in Visual communication from IDC, IIT Bombay and Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from School of Architecture and Planning (SAP)Anna University,Chennai. His areas of interest include graphic design, typography, type design and design research with special focus on Tamil typography. He has just completed his PhD on Tamil Typography at IDC, IIT Bombay under the guidance of Prof. G.V.Sreekumar. He has also designed a tamil font named "Parashakti" as a mini project at IDC. He is best known for designing the Indian Rupee Symbol. He explained that his design is a blend of the Devanagari "Ra" and the Roman "R" without the stem and is based on the tricolor.
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