Bangalore

Why this icon South Indian filter coffee, served in a steel tumbler and dabara. Source: en.wikipedia.org

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The story

Morning at Lalbagh: at a filter-coffee cart by the garden, the vendor pulls coffee from a height while a traveller waits with a tumbler; the Glass House stands among jacaranda and silk-cotton behind.

Why this picture

Bangalore runs on South Indian filter coffee, poured between a steel tumbler and its dabara from a height to cool and froth it. Lalbagh, the 240-acre botanical garden at the heart of the 'garden city', keeps its 1889 Glass House among century-old trees; jacaranda flower violet in spring and the red silk-cotton blooms on bare branches. Black kites circle over the city and rose-ringed parakeets fly past in noisy flocks.

The sky wears Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

The coffee falls from the tumbler to the dabara; steam curls off the kettle; kites circle; a flock of parakeets crosses the sky; clouds drift; the trees sway; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Rani Pink #ED145A

Apricot #FFCE7B

Gulabi #EE3C96

Bangalore takes Apricot #FFCE7B, one of the three Flowers colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Bangalore

A second scene: another true moment at Bangalore, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

A February afternoon on Lalbagh's rock: the Kempegowda watchtower stands on the crown of the granite dome against a golden sky, a traveller on the nearer rock points up at the black kites wheeling overhead, a palm squirrel scampers over the stone, and below them the garden's trees are in flower.

Why this moment

Lalbagh's rock is a dome of ancient Peninsular gneiss inside the garden, crowned by one of the watchtowers said to have been built by Kempegowda II to mark Bengaluru's limits; walkers climb it for the view. In February and March the garden's pink trumpet and red silk-cotton trees flower, black kites circle over the city on the afternoon thermals, and three-striped palm squirrels run over the rock.

The sky wears Kasuti, from Karnataka.

The motion

Two black kites wheel round the sky the whole loop; the garden's trees sway; the sun's rays turn; a cloud drifts; the squirrel scampers back and forth. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Bangalore in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Bangalore, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

Lalbagh Glass HouseMonument
The Glass House in Lalbagh (foundation stone 1889, John Cameron's time, modelled on London's Crystal Palace): cast iron from Glasgow and glass, home of the Lalbagh flower shows every January and August.
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Channapatna toysOf the place
Channapatna toys (GI): turned on the lathe from ivory-wood and lacquered in bright vegetable dyes in Bangalore's 'toy town', patronised since Tipu Sultan: stacking rings, spinning tops, rattles, dolls.
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Kempegowda's watchtower on the Lalbagh rockMonument
Kempegowda's watchtower on the Lalbagh rock, a bare gneiss outcrop some 3,000 million years old: one of the four towers raised under Kempegowda II to mark the city, looking out over Bengaluru.
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Also drawn for Bangalore 2

Detailed icons from the library that name Bangalore among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Bangalore alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Bangalore's Zobus

Zobu in Bangalore's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

Their faces, poses and moves 29

Bangalore's Zobus from the rig: a face for a profile picture, a pose for a story, a move as a still; each opens its file. Every Zobu in motion

Faces 20

Poses 9

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The animals of Bangalore

Animals and birds the research behind Bangalore's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

Black kiteMilvus migrans
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Rose-ringed parakeetPsittacula krameri
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Indian palm squirrelFunambulus palmarum
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The kit

Everything Bangalore needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

48 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols and its Zobus included

Profile

Bangalore’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

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Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Bangalore’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG