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The Billing cover: The take-off meadow at Billing on a clear October morning
Paragliding Take-off on Valley Blue — the Billing tile
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Billing

Paragliding Take-off · Himachal Pradesh · India

Make its poster The kit
The Billing cover: The take-off meadow at Billing on a clear October morning
Paragliding Take-off on Valley Blue — the Billing tile

Why this icon The take-off meadow at Billing (2,400 m); pilots land 14 km away in Bir. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel Homes

Read the windsock at 2,400 m. Run off the ridge.

RUN · FLY · SOAR

The story

The take-off meadow at Billing on a clear October morning: close by, the windsock streams out over the slope; wings lie spread on the grass, and a traveller in a tandem harness runs off the edge with the pilot as their wing lifts overhead; gliders are already out over the valley below.

Why this picture

Billing (about 2,400 m) is the launch for Bir's flights, 14 km up the ridge from the landing field at Chowgan. Pilots launch into the wind, read from the windsock, and a tandem passenger runs in front of the pilot as the wing fills. September to November is the season, when wings fill the sky over the Kangra valley.

The sky wears a faint Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

The windsock flutters in the wind; the lifting wing fills and breathes; far gliders drift over the valley; clouds drift below the ridge; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5
Valley Blue #4F87C7
Blush #F6ADCD

Billing takes Valley Blue #4F87C7, one of the three Valleys colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Billing

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

The second Billing scene: The first launch of an October morning at Billing

The story

The first launch of an October morning at Billing: a sea of cloud still fills the valley below the ridge, a tandem wing stands filled over the launch edge as a traveller runs forward in front of the pilot, a pilot of the place spreads the next wing on the meadow, a griffon vulture soars far off over the cloud and two black kites wheel over the ridge.

Why this moment

Billing (about 2,400 m) is the launch for Bir's flights; a tandem passenger runs in front of the pilot as the wing fills. On autumn mornings cloud often lies in the Kangra valley below the ridge until the sun burns it off; Himalayan griffons ride the same thermals as the gliders and black kites hunt over the ridge. September to November is the flying season.

The motion

A bank of clouds crosses the sky; a griffon soars on a wide circle over the sea of cloud; two black kites wheel over the launch; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Billing in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Billing, 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

  • A wing laid out at the launchOf the place

    Billing's launch meadow at about 2,400 m before a flight: the wing laid out in an arc on the grass, its lines running back to the pilot, waiting for the wind — the moment before Bir's wing in the sky.

    SVGGrey SVGPNG
  • Himalayan griffon vultureOf the place

    The Himalayan griffon vulture, said to share the thermal on nearly every flight from Billing: a huge pale-buff bird, 2.6–3.1 m across, its dark flight feathers splayed into fingers.

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Also drawn for Billing 3

Detailed icons from the library that name Billing among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Billing's Zobus

Zobu in Billing'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 →

The animals of Billing

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

The kit

Everything Billing 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 map, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

46 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols, its Zobus and its city map included
The Billing profile: its cover, its tile and its words
Profile

Billing’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.

SVGOther formats
The Billing cover, wide
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.

SVGAnimated SVGPNG
The Billing cover, tall
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.

SVGAnimated SVGPNG
Paragliding Take-off — the Billing tile
Tile

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

SVGPNG
Paragliding Take-off — the Billing icon
Icon

An object: flat landscape colours. Transparent; the mono takes any one colour.

SVGPNGMono SVG
Paragliding Take-off, Billing — the icon, alive
Loop

Points twinkle behind the peak, or clouds drift past. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVGLottie JSON
Motion

The symbol becomes Billing and turns back — a Lottie loop for stories, the app and the web.

Lottie JSON
The Billing display picture, as a circleThe Billing display picture, square
Display picture

Circle-safe: the colour, the icon and the name — for chats, socials and the app.

SVGPNG
Zostel Billing lockup
Lockup

The horizontal lockup, with Billing under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG
A wing laid out at the launchHimalayan griffon vulture
City symbols

Billing’s symbols, each in colour and in the city grey, as SVG and PNG — in the zip’s symbols folder.

See them with their files
Billing Zobu, femaleBilling Zobu, male
Zobus

Billing’s Zobu pair, still and alive (idle, hello, hop), waving still and as a face (a profile picture) — in the zip’s zobus folder.

Female SVGMale SVG

Also made for Billing 5

The rest of what the library holds for Billing: the pattern of its region, the card its links share, each opening its own file or gallery.

The map we made for Billing

Seven things to do around Zostel Homes Billing (Bir), each in its true direction with its distance and time from the door — a map made for your phone.

  1. Eat momos down the laneBir Tibetan Colony · 23.3 km · 60 min drive
  2. Watch the last gliders landBir landing site · 23.4 km · 60 min drive
  3. Paraglide off Billing to BirBilling take-off · 7.4 km · 20 min drive
  4. Hike up for the Dhauladhar sunriseHanuman Garh · 2.8 km · 120 min hike
  5. Wander lanes of kath-kuni housesRajgundha · 4.2 km · 55 min hike
  6. Dip your feet in the UhlUhl River · 4.8 km · 65 min hike
  7. Explore Baragram's mud-and-stone homesBaragram · 8.4 km · 175 min hike
Download the phone map (PNG)Download the phone map (SVG)

1080 × 1350, for a phone or a story. Distances and times from Zostel Homes Billing (Bir), measured on OpenStreetMap routing. Map for representation purposes only.

On the map

Billing is in Himachal Pradesh, India — one of the 84 places where Zostel is live.

Region
Himachal Pradesh
Country
India
Where
32.07° N, 76.74° E
Landscape
Valleys
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Billing · Himachal Pradesh · India