'INDIA DESIGN MARK' Symbol Designed By an IDCian -The I-mark symbolic logo, 'INDIA DESIGN MARK' designed by Vasant Mehar (PD 82-84) Alumni of IDC IIT Bombay is selected by India Design Council. Mehar's entry was chosen from 201 designs competing for the 'INDIA DESIGN MARK'. - 'INDIA DESIGN MARK'- Defines design certification mark status to good Indian design.

Indian Currency (Rupee) Symbol By an IDCian - Indian Rupee Symbol designed by D. Udaya kumar, PhD student at IDC (MDes 2001-03) is selected by the Govt. of India. Udayakumar's entry was chosen from 3,000 designs competing for the currency symbol. More details click here.............

CG Tantra Community award for Best Student Short Animation Film for an IDCian - 'The Candy Tree' Animation film by Somnath Pal, 2008-10 won the award for the Best Student Short Animation Film. -http://www.cgtantra.com/index.php? option=com_content& &id=429&Itemid=39

FRAMEFLIXX Animation Film Festival Award for an IDCian - 'Hunger' Animation film by Vajra pancharia, 2008-10 won the award for the Best Animation Film OPEN Category. - www.frameflixx.com

Two Silver Awards at 2010 International Design Forum and Workshop @NCKU Taiwan - 'Metamorphosis' – creating dynamic experiences through a series of eight constantly changing installations using natural forces to create self-generated experiences of ever newness by Niharika Manchanda, VC-2008-10 won a Silver award in the Individual Design Work Category. - ‘Folk toy Design’ by Niharika Manchanda, 2008-10 won another Silver award in the Group Design Project Category. Students from nine invited universities from around the world competed for the awards, apart from eight local Universities of Taiwan.

FICCI Best Animation Film Awards - 'Tanko Bole Chhe (The Stitches Speak)' - 'Tanko Bole Chhe (The Stitches Speak)' Animation film by Professor Nina Sabnani, won two FICCI Best of Animation Awards for the Best Short Animation film (Professional Category) and Best Social Welfare Film (Professional Category)

IDCians on ICSID board - Mugendi M'Rithaa, Faculty, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape Town, South Africa Alumni of IDC, Product Design, MDes batch of 1991-93 has been elected as executive board members of ICSID for the year 2009-2011. - www.icsid.org

ASIFA Award for an IDCian - 'Magic Within' Animation film by Ketaki Haldipurkar, 2007-09 won the award for the best animation film. - ww.asifaindia.com/iad09 /winners.html

Index Award for an IDCian - Pollution-free Chula designed at Philips India won the Index Award 2009 Unmesh Kulkarni, PD M Des batch 87-89 was the co-designer - http://www.indexaward.dk

IDCian appointed as Director of NID - Pradyumna Vyas, Alumni of IDC, Product Design, MDes batch of 1982-84 has been appointed as the director of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad - www.nid.edu

IDCian on TED talks - Pranav Mistry, Alumni of IDC, Visual Communication, MDes batch of 2003-05 talks on TED.com about his wearable product - the sixth sense - www.ted.com

EVM by IDC - Over a million Electronic Voting Machines (designed by Prof. A G Rao and Prof. Ravi Poovaiah of IDC in 1989) are used once again to cast votes by 714 million eligible voters in India. - www.indian-elections.com

Reddot Award for IDCan - Futuring design private limited, a design firm part owned by IDCian Chandrashekar Wyawahare, PD, Mdes batch 94-96 won this year's Reddot award. - www.futuringdesign.com

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Indian Currency (Rupee) Symbol Fonts available for use - How to use the font: 1. Download the .otf files. 2. Windows users can open the font folder in C drive: windows folder and install the font. 3. Mac users can use fontbook and install the font. 4. In any software, use the ` key to type the Rupee symbol. Select the character `. Go to font menu and change the font to "RupeeSansIDC" or "RupeeUnivers". ...... Download Rupee Universe ...... Download Rupee Sans IDC *Note: This key is a temporary measure and is NOT the original key assigned for the Indian Rupee Symbol. Keyboard assigning for the Rupee symbol will be announced soon.