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DAKSHINA CHITRA MUSEUM Dakshina Chitra Museum is a cross cultural living museum of art, architecture, lifestyles, crafts and performing arts of South India. It is a project of Madras Craft Foundation, an NGO was opened to the public on December 14, 1996 and is located overlooking the Bay of Bengal, at Muttukadu, near Chennai. The authentic homes in a regional vernacular style are purchased, taken down, transported and reconstructed by artisans (Stapathis) of the regions from where the houses came. Its insignia has a traditional ‘kolam’ made using a single intersecting line filled with four dots in brown colour on an orange square. Its name is written on top and its slogan is written below the kolam. The four triangles formed by the motif represent each of the four States of Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka. The colour orange symbolises energy, vitality, creativity, inspiration, joy and happiness and the colour brown symbolises earthiness, simplicity, stabili

THE GANDHIGRAM RURAL INSTITUTE Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI), founded by two dedicated disciples and contemporaries of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. G. Ramachandran and Dr. T.S. Soundaram RamachandranIt earned the status of Deemed University in 1976. The red, green and blue colour stadium shaped emblem of GRI has a number of motifs ensconced in a border with red border lines. Inside the border line it has further been divided into five rectangles with one in the centre and other four on each of its four sides. The central box has an open book ensconced by a nine petalled lotus surrounded by a circular border of two lines. The boxes above and below this rectangle have ‘kolam’ patterns and the boxes on the left and the right each have two sets of concentric connected squares. The spaces in the corners have a caduceus, the staff of Hermes staff entwined with a snake, a plough, a charkha and a traditional lamp. The border around these has the name of the university written in green

KARNATAKA BANK LIMITED Karnataka Bank Limited, a leading 'A' Class Scheduled Commercial Bank in India, was incorporated on February 18, 1924 at Mangaluru, a coastal town of Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka State. The bank took shape in the aftermath of patriotic zeal that engulfed the nation during the freedom movement of twentieth century India. Its logo is a pictorial and a wordmark in a purple background. The pictorial is a simple South Indian ‘kolam’ or rangoli of six pointed star with a dot in the centre. A hexagon is one of the building blocks of life and one of the principal governing patterns dominant in the natural world from honeycombs to the centre of snowflakes, the hexagon is everywhere. It is one of the efficient shapes to build and considered strong and secure. The colour purple is an unusual colour for a bank logo and that makes this bank stand out among other banks. The wordmark is written in simple but crish sans serif type.