Hampi

Why this icon The Stone Chariot of the Vittala temple (UNESCO). Source: whc.unesco.org

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The story

Sunset at Hampi: the carved stone chariot of the Vittala temple stands in its paved courtyard against a big setting sun, coconut palms rise between the granite boulder hills, and a traveller on top of a boulder raises both arms to the sun.

Why this picture

Hampi, the ruined Vijayanagara capital (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), lies among hills of piled granite boulders by the Tungabhadra, with coconut palms growing between them. In the Vittala temple's granite-paved courtyard stands the stone chariot, a shrine built as a temple car: bands of carved friezes run round its plinth, its four stone wheels are carved with lotus petals, pilasters frame its shrine, and its brick tower is long gone. The boulders glow gold at sunset, and Hampi is one of the world's great bouldering areas.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

The sun's rays breathe; the coconut palms sway. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Marigold #FAA619

Tangerine #F15A22

Sunshine #FFDE18

Hampi takes Tangerine #F15A22, one of the three Sunny Days colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Hampi

A second scene: another true moment at Hampi, 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 clear winter morning on the Tungabhadra: a boatman paddles a round bamboo coracle across the river with a traveller aboard, waving to the bank, where honey-coloured boulders are piled into hills, banana groves and palms stand at the water and a grey langur walks along a boulder.

Why this moment

Coracle rides across the Tungabhadra near the Virupaksha temple are one of Hampi's signature experiences: round woven bamboo boats, sealed underneath, paddled with a single paddle. The river runs between hills of piled granite boulders with banana plantations and coconut palms on its banks, and grey langurs sit on the rocks. Winter mornings are clear and cool.

The motion

The river's rows run; the boatman's arm works his paddle; the traveller waves; a cloud drifts and birds cross the sky; the sun's rays turn; the palms and banana leaves sway; the langur walks along its boulder and back. 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.

The sound of Hampi

Stone that sings

Zostel calls, and Hampi answers on struck stone, tuned like a stone marimba, with the mridangam. Its track is Hampi's own music with the place's air under it, a 29-second loop. Nothing plays until you tap.

struck stone
mridangam

Hampi's own music, from the research behind it: Hampi (Wikipedia), Purandara Dasa (Wikipedia), Carnatic music (Wikipedia).

What you hear in Hampi

The ringing rock
Small stones tapped on a huge granite boulder: three clear ringing knocks, like a xylophone of rock, and their echo over the boulders.
Its own sound · 4 s
Banana grove
Midday in a banana plantation by the rice fields: big leaves slapping in a hot breeze, weaver birds at their nests, a channel trickling.
Its air · 12 s
Boulders at evening
Golden evening among the granite boulders by the river: warm wind, a coracle's paddle, monkeys calling over the rocks, an owl far off, crickets.
Its air · 15 s
River crossing
Crossing the river in a round wicker boat: the paddle dipping and dripping, water on the woven hull, the boat creaking as it spins.
Its air · 12 s
Struck stone
One stone struck hard on a granite boulder, a ringing knock with a short echo.
Sting · 3 s

Hampi in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Hampi, 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 coracle on the TungabhadraOf the place
The coracle: a round boat of woven bamboo, tarred underneath, that spins across the Tungabhadra past Hampi's boulders, paddled with a single paddle from the front.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Sandur Lambani embroideryOf the place
Sandur Lambani embroidery (GI), from Sandur near Hampi: mirrors, beads, coins and shells stitched into dense geometric needlework on mainly red cloth by Lambani women.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
The Elephant StablesMonument
The Elephant Stables (Gajashala) of Vijayanagara's royal centre: eleven square chambers in a row, each with a tall arched door, ten of them under domes that alternate fluted and plain, the middle one raised above them.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Lotus MahalMonument
The Lotus Mahal (Kamal Mahal) in Hampi's royal centre: a two-storeyed pavilion whose lobed arches open like a lotus, Hindu mandala plan and pyramid towers with Indo-Islamic arches and vaults.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Hampi 30

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

Say hello to Hampi's Zobus

Zobu in Hampi'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 26

Hampi'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 Hampi

Animals and birds the research behind Hampi'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

The kit

Everything Hampi 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.

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

Profile

Hampi’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 Hampi’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 Hampi 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 Hampi under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG

City symbols

Hampi’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

Hampi’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 Hampi 5

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

The map we made for Hampi

53 things to do around our two Zostels, two walks and 17 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 79

Every spot on the Hampi 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.