Symbols and currencies

Recently came across this new magazine called ‘Open’, which goes by an ad line that says “your weekly mind stimulant”. It’s a current affairs and features magazine with an eclectic mix of articles. Find its weblink here: http://openthemagazine.com/

The very first piece of news following the editorial letter is one on the symbol contest being run by the Ministry of finance to replace our own ‘Rs.’ The magazine had got three popular artists, MF Hussain, Baiju Parthan and Abir Patwardhan to come up with some logos from the artists, below:

Having put up the magazine’s version, I had my graphic art background winking at me. So I pulled out my dear old Illustrator 10.0 (Thank you Adobe) and made some quick sketches of my own. I am a little rusty and not too clean with the software, but after a hiatus of 5 years from designing and using the software, this is what I came up with:

Would love to hear your suggestions on the symbols…what you didn’t like, what you liked, what is toooo much and what is too little, what to add, what to delete……