Re: [Indic-computing-users] IndicCC Logo Design

[LinuxLingam <lin...@bh...>]

On Monday 28 April 2003 09:52 am, you wrote:
> I had scribbled some logos for Indic Computing Consortium some
> times ago. But I did not show it to anyone.
>
please show us.


> The idea of zero is great. In fact my idea was using both zero
> and one. I used one such idea for the logo of KGP. Check out
> www.ganakaparishat.org. The logo is designed by me. If you
> notice carefully, it contains old 5 1/4" floppy, zeros and ones,
> and the Kannada letter "ka".
>
> I was making something similar for ICC which contains zero one
> and when they all are put togethr the Hindi letter "a" was
> implied. 

in fact, i was about to do a similar thing, and then i thought of you! 
Reason: hindi/devanagri is just one of the languages and scripts of india. 
what about the south indian languages, what about urdu, what about oriyan etc 
etc etc. i *consciously* decided *not* to make a logo that inadvertandly 
represented a glyph of one or a few indic languages.

also realized ICC has more to do than just font design and language encoding. 
there's lots more to be done. hence the logo has to be even more generic.

and finally, i zeroed in on zero. a perfect symbol for computing.
and if you look carefully at the way i've drawn zero, one also emerges from 
its centre, as a primitive shape.

hence the logo design.

:-)
LL