Doodhpathri

Why this icon Doodhpathri means 'valley of milk' — its streams run white over the stones. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

A bright summer day in Doodhpathri, the 'valley of milk': a traveller sits on a boulder at the edge of the Shaliganga, toes in the water, as the stream foams milk-white down the meadow; saddled ponies and a few sheep graze, daisies, buttercups and forget-me-nots dot the grass, dark firs stand on the meadow and wooded hills ring it.

Why this picture

Doodhpathri is a bowl-shaped alpine meadow at about 2,730 m in the Pir Panjal, 42 km from Srinagar, ringed by pine and fir. Its name is read as the 'valley of milk' for the Shaliganga stream that foams white over its boulders. In summer herders bring their animals up, ponies wait for riders and daisies and buttercups fill the grass.

The sky wears Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

The stream's water lines run; clouds drift to and fro; the sun's rays turn; the ponies and the sheep graze; the flowers twinkle. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5

Valley Blue #4F87C7

Blush #F6ADCD

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

Another moment in Doodhpathri

A second scene: another true moment at Doodhpathri, 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

Evening at a herders' kotha on the edge of the Doodhpathri meadow: the low mud house stands against the firs with smoke rising from its roof and its doorway lit, the cows graze in from the grass, noon chai and a girda wait on a flat stone by the door, and a traveller walks up from the milk-white stream as the moon rises over the forest.

Why this moment

Gujjar and Bakarwal families spend the summer months at Doodhpathri in kothas, low houses of mud, stone and timber at the forest's edge, with their cattle and flocks; noon chai, Kashmir's pink salt tea, is drunk with the round girda bread. The meadow at about 2,730 m in the Pir Panjal is ringed by pine and fir, and the Shaliganga runs milk-white across it.

The motion

Smoke rises from the kotha's roof; the moon's rings turn; clouds cross the dusk sky; the firs sway; the stream's lines run; the cows graze; the traveller walks. 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.

Doodhpathri in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Doodhpathri, 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

Noon chai and girdaOf the place
Noon chai, the pink salt tea of Kashmir, brewed long and aerated until it turns pink, drunk in the meadows from flasks with the girda, the round bread pressed with the baker's fingers.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
A herders' kothaMonument
The kotha, the herders' low mud house at Doodhpathri's forest edge, where the Gujjar and Bakarwal families live with their herds through the six summer months on the meadow.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Doodhpathri 2

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

Say hello to Doodhpathri's Zobus

Zobu in Doodhpathri'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

The animals of Doodhpathri

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

Zebu cowBos indicus
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Doodhpathri 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.

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

Profile

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

SVG PNG