Gurgaon

Why this icon The glass towers of Gurgaon's business district, with the Rapid Metro running through them. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

Golden hour in Cyber City: the glass towers flash with the sunset and their windows light up one by one as a short Rapid Metro train waits between them on its viaduct, and a traveller with a coffee stands on the paved plaza in front of them as office-goers with laptop bags head home.

Why this picture

DLF Cyber City is Gurgaon's cluster of glass office towers, threaded since 2013 by the Rapid Metro, a fully elevated line of short three-car silver-and-blue trains. At golden hour the glass catches the low sun just as the offices light up and the day's work spills out across the plazas, between neem trees and planters of bougainvillea: work, then play at Cyber Hub. Black drongos sally after insects over the city.

The motion

Office windows light up in turn; drongos fly across the sky; the sun's rays turn; a neem on the plaza sways. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Rani Pink #ED145A

Apricot #FFCE7B

Gulabi #EE3C96

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

Another moment in Gurgaon

A second scene: another true moment at Gurgaon, 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 spring weekend morning in the Aravali Biodiversity Park: on the ridge's old quartzite a nilgai bull browses on the scrub below the rock and its native trees, a traveller out on the trail stops to photograph him, a peacock displays at the scrub's edge, a palm squirrel sits up on a rock, black kites wheel over the ridge, and far behind it the city's glass towers stand pale in the morning.

Why this moment

The Aravali Biodiversity Park, on Gurgaon's edge, is an old quarry on the Aravalli ridge healed with native dhau and other dry-forest trees on the quartzite; nilgai browse its scrub and northern palm squirrels, peafowl and black kites live there, with the Cyber City skyline on the horizon. Weekend walks there are a city ritual, best on clear mornings from October to March; in March the peacocks have begun to display.

The sky wears Phulkari, from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.

The motion

White clouds cross the sky; two black kites wheel over the ridge; the sun's rays turn; the trees sway; the nilgai dips his head. 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.

Gurgaon in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Gurgaon, 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

The Rapid MetroOf the place
Rapid Metro Gurgaon (2013): India's first privately financed metro, fully elevated through Cyber City — short three-car, silver-and-blue aluminium trains on a single viaduct, fed by a third rail (no pantograph).
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The Aravalli ridgeOf the place
The Aravalli ridge at the city's edge: old quartzite rock and dry scrub, a quarry healed into the Aravali Biodiversity Park, where nilgai browse among the native dhau trees.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Gurgaon 2

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

Say hello to Gurgaon's Zobus

Zobu in Gurgaon'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 22

Gurgaon'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 Gurgaon

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

NilgaiBoselaphus tragocamelus
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The kit

Everything Gurgaon 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

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

SVG PNG