Kochi

Why this icon The Chinese fishing nets of Fort Kochi. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

Sunset at Fort Kochi: a Chinese fishing net has just been hauled up out of the sea against the sinking sun, fishermen hanging on its land end, and a traveller on the beach raises a camera to it; a canoe lies drawn up on the sand with the catch in baskets beside it, and crows wait for scraps.

Why this picture

Fort Kochi's Chinese fishing nets (cheena vala) are shore-mounted cantilevers about 10 m high: a teak beam pivots on a frame at the water's edge, a square net hangs from its sea end and a row of stones on ropes balances its land end, so a few fishermen can lift the net out of the sea. About eight of the old nets still fish here, in the morning and at sunset, black against the sky over the Arabian Sea, and the catch is sold on the beach within minutes, to cooks and passers-by. Canoes are drawn up on the sand, house crows wait for scraps and Brahminy kites circle over the catch.

The motion

The sea's rows run, each its own way; crows fly home across the sunset sky; fish flip in the lifted net and drops fall from it; at the land end the haul pulls and eases; crows peck on the sand; kites circle; the sun's rays breathe; a ship slides along the horizon. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Sky #9CDCF9

Lagoon #34C2D7

Ocean #0072BC

Kochi takes Ocean #0072BC, one of the three Waters colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Kochi

A second scene: another true moment at Kochi, 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 bright morning on a Fort Kochi street: close to the camera, open sacks of pepper, turmeric and cardamom stand at a spice shop's door, and beyond them a traveller standing on the street under the rain trees, by the old Bastion Bungalow, points at the pepper; a street dog stands in the shade and a black kite wheels over the rooftops.

Why this moment

Fort Kochi is walked on foot, and Kochi has traded the Malabar coast's black pepper, cardamom and turmeric for centuries: the spice shops of Mattancherry and Fort Kochi still sell them loose from open sacks. The Bastion Bungalow, built about 1667 on the Dutch fort's Stromberg bastion, is a two-storey house with a tiled roof and long rows of windows; rain trees with umbrella crowns shade the old streets, street dogs rest under them and black kites wheel over the harbour town.

The sky wears Alleppey coir, from Kerala.

The motion

A black kite wheels in a wide loop over the rooftops; clouds drift across the sky; the rain trees sway; the sun's rays turn. 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.

Kochi in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Kochi, 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

Spice sacks of MattancherryOf the place
Mattancherry's spice trade: pepper ('black gold'), cardamom, ginger and turmeric dried, sorted and packed in the warehouses of Bazaar Road, the trade that brought the Arabs, Chinese, Portuguese and Dutch to Kochi.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Kochi Water MetroOf the place
Kochi Water Metro (2023): the world's largest network of battery-electric ferries — air-conditioned aluminium catamarans built by Cochin Shipyard, wide windows, in the Metro's green and white — linking the islands across the harbour and backwaters.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Bastion Bungalow, Fort KochiMonument
Bastion Bungalow, Fort Kochi (1667): built by the Dutch on the Stromberg bastion of their fort, Indo-European, of brick, laterite and wood — a tiled roof in geometric patterns and a long first-floor verandah all of wood along its front; today the District Heritage Museum.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Kochi 29

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

Say hello to Kochi's Zobus

Zobu in Kochi'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

Kochi'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 kit

Everything Kochi 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.

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

Profile

Kochi’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 Kochi’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 water flows, and whatever floats rides it. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

The symbol becomes Kochi 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 Kochi under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG

City symbols

Kochi’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

Kochi’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 Kochi 5

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

The map we made for Kochi

54 things to do around our three Zostels, two walks and 18 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

The phone map

Download the phone map (PNG)Download the phone map (SVG)

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

Its pieces on the map 83

Every spot on the Kochi 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.