About the guest
Uday Kumar, the creator of the Indian Rupee symbol and associate professor at IIT, discusses his design process. He focused on representing Indian culture through visual harmony, incorporating elements like the national flag (horizontal line symbolizing the tricolor) and balance (equal sign concept). Kumar emphasizes simplicity as key to creating lasting designs, with security and uniqueness being primary considerations for currency design.
Questions
What were the design goals while designing the rupee sign? I mean visual harmony, culture, context, and any other considerations?
What were your design goals before getting to work?
What was your process to evaluate that the symbol you made will work across Size, color, shape, context, language, etc..
What should be the process if someone has to design for a wider set of people?
What is the significance of horizontal and vertical lines in the currency symbols?
What is your perspective about making immortal design? Is it possible since you have created something equivalent to our national anthem?
What would be your top 2 goals if you were going to design the 2000 rupee note?
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