Nashik

Why this icon Nashik, the grape capital of India. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

Harvest morning in a Nashik vineyard: close overhead a heavy bunch of pale-green grapes hangs among the vine's broad leaves, while a picker cuts bunches at the row and a traveller walks past crates of the morning's picking, the flat-topped Sahyadri blue on the horizon.

Why this picture

Nashik is India's grape capital: its GI-tagged table grapes, mostly pale-green seedless, grow on wire trellises across the plateau at the Deccan's western edge, and are harvested from February into April, when few other regions in the world are picking. The Sahyadri, where the Godavari rises at Brahmagiri, line the western skyline; bulbuls and parakeets work the rows.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

The traveller walks; the vine overhead stirs; bulbuls peck on the trellis posts; three parakeets wheel wide over the rows; the grass sways; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Mustard Leaf #E2E418

Jade #04B495

Paddy Green #B2D234

Nashik takes Jade #04B495, one of the three Fields colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Nashik

A second scene: another true moment at Nashik, 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 monsoon morning at a wood-fire misal place on the edge of Nashik: a plate of fiery misal and pav sits on a khatiya close to the camera, steam rising, an onion cut beside it; the cook stirs the pot on the clay chulha, a traveller eats on the next khatiya, parakeets sit in the tree and fly over, and the flat-topped Sahyadri stand green with the rains.

Why this moment

The Zostel Nashik guide sends you for misal to the wood-fire places on Gangapur Road, where the misal is cooked on the chul and eaten sitting on khatiyas. Nashik's misal is the famously fiery one, a sprouted usal under a red rassa with farsan, eaten with pav, onion and lemon, and Nashik district grows India's onions (Lasalgaon). From June to September the rains turn Nashik a lush green under the Sahyadri's flat-topped hills, and rose-ringed parakeets fly over its orchards.

The motion

Parakeets cross the whole sky; big monsoon clouds drift; steam rises off the misal and the pot; the fire flickers in the chulha's mouth; the sun's rays turn; the tree sways. 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.

Nashik in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Nashik, 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

Misal pavOf the place
Misal pav: a sprouted moth-bean usal under a fiery red rassa, heaped with farsan, onion, lemon and coriander, with pav; Nashik's is the famously spicy one.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Lasalgaon onionsOf the place
Lasalgaon, in Nashik district, holds one of the great onion markets, its onions sent across India and abroad; the Lasalgaon onion was GI-tagged in 2023.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Nashik 2

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

Say hello to Nashik's Zobus

Zobu in Nashik'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 13

Nashik'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 10

Show all 10

Poses 3

The animals of Nashik

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

Rose-ringed parakeetPsittacula krameri
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The kit

Everything Nashik 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

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

SVG PNG