Bundi

Why this icon Bundi has more than fifty stepwells; Raniji ki Baori is the best known. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

A winter morning at Raniji ki Baori: a traveller walks down the stepwell's honey-stone flights toward the green water, stone elephants guard the rim, the town's blue houses crowd round its paved square, where a man sits on a stone platform and a woman passes with a brass pot on her head, a langur sits on a rooftop, and above it all the town climbs to the palace and Taragarh's walls.

Why this picture

Raniji ki Baori, the Queen's stepwell (1699), drops 46 m through flights of steps and arched landings to a tank that still holds water; stone elephants stand at its rim. Bundi has more than fifty stepwells, and its blue-washed old town of flat-roofed houses crowds round them and climbs the Aravalli ridge to the Garh Palace and the walls of Taragarh, where langurs sit.

The motion

The water lines in the well run; pigeons fly across the sky; the sun's rays turn; the langur's tail twitches. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Marigold #FAA619

Tangerine #F15A22

Sunshine #FFDE18

Bundi takes Marigold #FAA619, one of the three Sunny Days colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Bundi

A second scene: another true moment at Bundi, 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 monsoon evening on Taragarh's ramparts: a traveller stands on the wall-walk looking down at the Garh Palace stepping down its hill above the blue old town and Nawal Sagar as the sun sets behind the hills; a langur sits on the parapet beside them, an Indian roller perches on a dhok growing out of the wall, and rain clouds roll across the sky.

Why this moment

Taragarh (1354) crowns the hill about 450 m uphill from the Garh Palace, Bundi's cluster of palaces built over three centuries down the hillside; below them the old town's houses are washed blue round Nawal Sagar. The monsoon turns the Hadoti hills green, and Bundi is 'especially endearing during monsoons'. Hanuman langurs live on the fort walls, Indian rollers perch on bare branches, and dhok trees cover the hills.

The sky wears Bandhani, from Gujarat and Rajasthan.

The motion

A bank of rain clouds rolls across the whole sky; pigeons fly across the sky; the sun's fan of rays breathes; the lake's rows run; the dhok sways; windows light up in the old town. 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.

Bundi in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Bundi, 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

Garh Palace under TaragarhMonument
Garh Palace, Bundi: built by successive Hada rulers over two hundred years in the local green-tinged stone, its blocks step down the hillside under Taragarh's walls, crowned by kiosks with Bundi's curved roofs.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Hathi Pol, the Elephant GateMonument
Hathi Pol, the Elephant Gate of Bundi's Garh Palace (Rao Ratan Singh): its two great stone elephants face each other over the archway, trunks raised in welcome.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Katt bafla on a pattalOf the place
Katt bafla, Hadoti's own dish (Kota and Bundi): round wheat baflas boiled, then roasted golden and dipped in ghee, with the sweet katt cut in barfi-like squares, served on a pattal leaf plate.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Bundi 30

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

Say hello to Bundi's Zobus

Zobu in Bundi'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 27

Bundi'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

The animals of Bundi

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

Grey langurSemnopithecus entellus
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Indian rollerCoracias benghalensis
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Bundi 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.

51 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols, its Zobus and its city map included

Profile

Bundi’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

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 Bundi’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG

Icon

A monument: city grey, its detail cut out. Transparent; the mono takes any one colour.

SVG PNG Mono SVG

Loop

The sun stands behind it; its rays turn a 60° step each loop. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

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

Lottie JSON

Display picture

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

SVG PNG

Lockup

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

SVG

City symbols

Bundi’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

Zobus

Bundi’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 SVG Male SVG

Also made for Bundi 5

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

The map we made for Bundi

29 things to do around our Zostel, two walks and 15 quests, on one A2 sheet that folds to A6 — a map made for travellers. Print it, fold it, go.

Download for print (PDF)Download the map (PNG)Download the guide (PNG)

A2, both sides, folds to A6. For print: double-sided, flipping on the long edge; at a print shop, the PDF at actual size.

ClickTap the sheet to zoom in

The mapClick to zoom in

The guideClick to zoom in

Its pieces on the map 55

Every spot on the Bundi sheet, by what you go there for, each drawn with a drawing of the library. A piece opens its drawing with its files; the line under it names the other places that drawing belongs to.