Kathir Arumugam

Kathir Arumugam is an Indian Graphic Designer known for his typography and book cover designs. He worked as a graphic designer for Tamil Nadu Text Book Corporation to redesign the school text book cover patterns. He designed book covers for well-known authors like Sujatha, S.Ramakrishnan, Jeyamohan, Balakumaran.

Early life
Kathir was born in Arachalur in 1985, a small village near Erode district. Kathir grew up being heavily inspired and fascinated about art because his father is a street play artist acted in many plays like harichandra, pavazhakod i. He was also influenced by the modern art of Trotsky Marudu. In early, childhood he had more inclination towards creative side and used to Involve in a lot of Minimum interest like pottery and making clay figurines. After his father died, his mother needs to take over the household duty to bring up her children. In his learning, he does many works purposefully, like making banners and painting for billboards, to purchase the writing material required for creative works, he did many unassuming positions, for example, delivering newspapers, painting, and also worked as a construction worker.

Career
Kathir was interested in art which made him quit schooling after completion of the ninth standard at government higher secondary school in Arachalur. He started to work in a design company in Erode as a tea boy at the age of 12. It was the first exposure to graphic designing. After this, he wanted to study graphic designing at Explore design school in erode. He worked every night in a plastic company to earn money for the graphic designing course fee.

Later, Kathir was working at a school as a guide on art for children. A few artists from Chennai had come to teach painting to the children. One of the artist's guna appreciated him for his art works. Unconsciously and unexpectedly, he ended up giving the children guiding on art. He realized that this was a major turning point in his life. He left for Chennai that night without telling anybody along with the artist. Guna introduced him to almost every artist he knew in Chennai. After a long wait, Kathir finally got a job at Uyirmmai Publication as a graphic artist. Also, he was also employed as a graphic designer in SUN Group media & communication layout artist in Dinakaran daily and Kungumam (magazine).

1.Tamil Nadu Text Book Corporation
He worked as a graphic designer for Tamil Nadu Text Book Corporation to redesign the school text book cover patterns.

2.Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department
he also designed “Keeladi Books” that will be published by the Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department. [ Titled as Keezhadi: Ancient Civilization on the bank of River Vaigai ] the book will be published in 24 languages including French, Portuguese and Malayalam. Under the guidance Of T.Udhayachandran IAS, Commissioner of Archaeology.

Style and influence
Kathir Arumugam introduced an innovation in the field of logo designing and typography. That is, he created the logo by infusing his thoughts into typography letters. It was innovative and elegant. As proof of this, it is worth mentioning that he designed the brand design of Keezadi on the reception board of Keezadi Museum using his typography logo designing technique.