Vinay Saynekar is a type designer, calligrapher and a design educator. He completed his graduation from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art

Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art

Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art is an Indian applied art institution based in Mumbai. It is a state government college that was created through its sister school, the Sir J. J. School of Art. The "Sir J. J." in the name stands for Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy, a Parsi philanthropist whose name is...

, Mumbai University and joined a paper company, Chimanlal’s Pvt Ltd, as Chief Design Consultant in 1981. He worked for sometime and then returned to his college to teach and has been an inspiring teacher of Typography

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...

 and Calligraphy

Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering . A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner"...

 in JJ since 1984. He has taken several lectures in various Art and Design Colleges, on typefaces and their design. He also visited West Germany, Netherlands and Great Britain for the same purpose in 1988.

He has been honoured as the Communication Arts Guild

Communication Arts Guild

Communication Arts Guild or CAG is an organisation dedicated to Indian Advertising Industry and encouraging budding artists. It serves as an example of the high quality of work done in Visual Communication today. Located in Mumbai, this is the only organisation which has the complete record of the...

 "Guru of the Year" for 3 consecutive years in 2007-08, 2008-09 & 2009-10.

He participated in a group show called ‘3 Calligraphers’.

He is a member of Aksharaya - an organisation for the ‘Letter Conscious’ People.

He wrote a book for calligraphy enthusiasts – Aksharsaundarya: Nirmiti ani Itihas (Beautifying Letters: Creation and History). He has organized workshops for children to introduce them to the world of calligraphy.

Designed Fonts

In his association with the typographer Prof R K Joshi

R K Joshi

Professor R K Joshi was an academic type designer and calligrapher. He designed the core Indian fonts used in Microsoft Windows.-Early life:...

, he designed fonts for Microsoft Corporation including Tunga for Kannada script

Kannada script

The Kannada script is an alphasyllabary of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages of southern India and also Sanskrit in the past. The Telugu script is derived from Old Kannada, and resembles Kannada script...

 and Vrinda for Bengali script

Bengali script

The Bengali alphabet is the writing system for the Bengali language. The script with variations is used for Assamese and is basis for Meitei, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Kokborok, Garo and Mundari alphabets. All these languages are spoken in the eastern region of South Asia. Historically, the script has...

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He was a member of the Font Design Team in the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is a research and development organization under the Department of Information Technology, India.-History:...

 (CDAC) for almost 15 years from 1992-2007. He has been a part of font designs in Devanagari

Devanagari

Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...

, Assamese

Assamese

Assamese refers to "related/associated to or belonging to Assam or the people/culture of Assam". It could mean any of the following or more:* Assamese people, people of Assam* Assamese language...

, Bengali,and Kannada. The fonts made for Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 are Jan Marathi, Jan Bengali and Jan Kannada

His recent works include typefaces designed in Bengali and Kannada Script for Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

 and Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile is a brand used by many mobile phone service providers across the globe; its headquarters are based in the United Kingdom. Virgin Mobile has local operations in Australia, Canada, France, India, South Africa, Greece, United Kingdom and the United States. It briefly also had operations...

ads in Indian regions.