Mysore

Why this icon Mysore Palace, lit by tens of thousands of bulbs on Sunday evenings. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

Sunday, 7 pm: Mysore Palace switches on, every dome, arch and tower traced in bulbs; families stroll the forecourt among flower beds and lit lamps, and a traveller on the path points up at the lights while flying foxes cross the night.

Why this picture

Mysore Palace, the Indo-Saracenic seat of the Wodeyars, is lit with nearly 100,000 bulbs on Sundays and public holidays from 7 pm, and every night of Dasara, when crowds gather on its wide forecourt of lawns and paths to watch; Indian flying foxes leave their roosts across the city at dusk.

The motion

The bulbs glow in turn; the stars twinkle; the moon's rings turn; flying foxes cross the sky; families stroll; the trees sway. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Rani Pink #ED145A

Apricot #FFCE7B

Gulabi #EE3C96

Mysore takes Rani Pink #ED145A, one of the three Flowers colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Mysore

A second scene: another true moment at Mysore, 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

Dusk by the palace's fort wall: a tonga waits for a fare on the road, its horse in harness, and a traveller walks up holding a square of Mysore pak, while the sun sets behind Chamundi hill, flying foxes cross the pink sky and the lamps along the road are lit.

Why this moment

Horse-drawn tongas still carry visitors round Mysore Palace and the old city. Mysore pak was first made in the palace kitchens and is still sold by its inventor's family near Devaraja market. Indian flying foxes roost in the city's big trees and fly out at sunset, and Chamundi hill rises over the city.

The sky wears Kasuti, from Karnataka.

The motion

Flying foxes cross the sky; the setting sun's fan of rays breathes; the trees along the wall sway. 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.

Mysore in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Mysore, 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

Mysore pakOf the place
Mysore pak, created in the Mysore Palace kitchens under Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV: gram flour, sugar and a lot of ghee, set golden and porous and cut into blocks.
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A Mysore silk sariOf the place
Mysore silk (GI): pure mulberry-silk saris in one rich colour with a broad border of real zari, its thread 65% silver and 0.65% gold, woven in Mysore since the Wadiyars.
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A tongaOf the place
The tonga, Mysore's horse-drawn carriage: two wheels, a canopy, one seat facing forward and one back, waiting at the palace gates.
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Mysore Palace, litMonument
Mysore Palace (Amba Vilas, built 1897–1912): three storeys of granite, about 75 m long, its main front a large central arch flanked by four smaller arches on each side on granite pillars; a five-storey central tower under a gold-plated onion dome with a small chhatri on top; five-storey square towers at both ends under pink marble domes. It is lit with nearly 100,000 bulbs on Sundays, public holidays and the nights of Dasara: here strings of bulbs run along its cornices, its towers' edges and its arches. Plain architecture: the sculpture over the central arch and the temples in the grounds are left out.
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Brindavan Gardens and their fountainsOf the place
Brindavan Gardens (laid out 1927–1932), 60 acres below the Krishna Raja Sagara dam on the Kaveri, 12 km from Mysore: laid out in three terraces of lawns, flower beds and fountains, and known for the musical fountain whose jets keep time with songs in the evening. Seen from the gardens' foot, the dam's long masonry wall across the top.
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Also drawn for Mysore 21

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

Say hello to Mysore's Zobus

Zobu in Mysore'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 29

Mysore'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

Faces 20

Poses 9

Show all 9

The animals of Mysore

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

Indian flying foxPteropus medius
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Painted storkMycteria leucocephala
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The kit

Everything Mysore 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.

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

Profile

Mysore’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 Mysore’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

Festival bunting flutters above it, or confetti points twinkle. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

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

SVG

City symbols

Mysore’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

Mysore’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 Mysore 5

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

The map we made for Mysore

37 things to do around our Zostel, 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 Mysore, measured on OpenStreetMap routing. Map for representation purposes only.

Its pieces on the map 60

Every spot on the Mysore 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.