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G V Sreekumar
Prof G V Sreekumar is Professor and Head of Industrial Design Centre (IDC School of Design), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. His areas of expertise are typography, communicaton design, publication design, design pedagogy.

He is one of the few font experts in India.

Prof. Sreekumar has mentored many design students, including the prodigiously talented Prof. D. Udaya Kumar, PhD (IIT Guwahati) and Prof. Girish Dalvi (IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay). Prof. D. Udaya Kumar is the designer of the Indian rupee sign (₹) while Prof. Girish Dalvi has jointly designed the Ek Devanagari, Ek Latin, and Ek Mukta fonts.

Subjects taught : Typography, Information Graphics, Calligraphy, Representational Techniques, Visual Design, Media Technology, Anatomy and Life Drawing, Publication Design, Computer Aided Design etc

Projects :

Magazine Design Projects: Chandamama (English), Society, Savvy, CHIP, Digit, Overdrive, Banking Frontiers, CTO Forum etc. SEBI Annual Report 2015, Font customisation for Outlook magazine, Service Medals for Maharashtra Police, Visual identity for various firms including Trompe-l’oeil; television production firm, Mumbai, Avidh (NGO); Mumbai. Book and cover design for various publishers in India. ICICI Insurance. Adobe Inc, USA.

Corporate Training Programmes:

CapGemini, Malayala Manorama, Satyam Computers, Tata Infomedia etc

Visiting Faculty:

Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. National Institute of Design. MAEER’s MIT Institute of Design, Pune. Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune. MRID, M.S. University, Baroda. Rachna Sansad, Mumbai. IIIT Jabalpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad. Wellinkar Institute of Management, Mumbai. NIFT, Mumbai. Pearl Academy, Mumbai.

Co-host

Typography Day International Conference. India

Jury Member, Printweek Awards. Haymarket media. MumbaiJury Member, Typography Day International Conference. India Jury Member, Council of Architecture, New Delhi Jury Member, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune. Jury Member, MAEER’s MIT Institute of Design, Pune. Jury Member, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. Jury Member, MRID, M.S. University, Baroda. Jury Member, NIFT, Mumbai. Jury Member, PC World Tech awards

Other positions:

Organiser, Core committee member, Typography Day International Conference. Member, Text book Committee, NCERT, Govt of India. Member, Board of Studies, MAEER’s MIT Institute of Design, Pune.

Web: http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/people/faculty.html --

Personal

He is the son of Lalitha and G Vivekanandan, a famous Malayalam writer, whose works have led to 19 films in Malayalam.

Education : M.Des (Visual Communication) Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT, Bombay, 1992. BFA (Applied Arts), Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara,1990.