 Satyajit Ray designed four typefaces for roman script named Ray Roman , Ray Bizarre , Daphnis , and Holiday Script , apart from numerous Bengali ones for the Sandesh magazine . Ray Roman and Ray Bizarre won an international competition in 1971 . In certain circles of Calcutta , Ray continued to be known as an eminent graphic designer , well into his film career . Ray illustrated all his books and designed covers for them , as well as creating all publicity material for his films , i.e. , Ray 's artistic playing with the Bengali graphemes was also revealed in the cine posters and cine promo @-@ brochures ' covers . He also designed covers of several books by other authors . In his calligraphic technique there are deep impacts of : ( a ) Artistic pattern of European musical staff notation in the graphemic syntagms ; ( b ) alpana ( " ritual painting " mainly practiced by Bengali women at the time of religious festival ; the term denotes ' to coat with ' . Generally categorized as " Folk " -Art cf. in Ray 's graphemes representations . 
