Sissu

Why this icon The waterfall across the Chandra is Sissu's sight. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

A bright summer day at Sissu: a traveller has pulled a motorbike over on the Manali–Leh road by the Chandra and points across the river at the waterfall pouring from the snowfield down its dark rock face, poplars and pea fields on the near bank.

Why this picture

Sissu (3,120 m) sits on the right bank of the Chandra in Lahaul, on the Manali–Leh road, and looks across the river at its waterfall, a long white ribbon fed by the snow above, fullest with the summer melt, green slopes at its foot. Since the Atal Tunnel opened in 2020 riders reach it in about an hour and a half from Manali; the highway runs along the river edged with kerb stones and milestones, and poplars and willows line the green pea and potato fields on the valley floor.

The sky wears Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

The fall's water runs down the rock; the river's lines run; the poplars, willows and pea stalks sway; alpine choughs wheel by the cliff; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5

Valley Blue #4F87C7

Blush #F6ADCD

Sissu takes Valley Blue #4F87C7, one of the three Valleys colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Sissu

A second scene: another true moment at Sissu, 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 late-October afternoon in Sissu: a row of poplars burns yellow at the edge of the harvested fields, first snow lies on the peaks above the Chandra, a farmer carries the last of the harvest in a basket on her head, a mule waits at the field's edge and the traveller walks the village path.

Why this moment

Sissu sits at the start of Lahaul, 40 km from Manali on the Manali-Leh road just beyond the Atal Tunnel. In autumn, August to November, the first snow comes with the bright yellow poplars, after a summer of potato, pea and cauliflower fields; Lahaul is dry, its trees mainly on the valley floor, and its houses flat-roofed.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

Choughs cross the sky; the Chandra's rows run; the far poplars sway; the traveller and the farmer walk; the mule grazes, head dipping; 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.

Sissu in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Sissu, 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 Atal Tunnel's portalMonument
The Atal Tunnel (9.02 km, opened 3 October 2020) under the Rohtang ridge brought Sissu within 90 minutes of Manali: its horseshoe-shaped bore, two lanes and a footpath each side, opens a few kilometres from the village — the road everyone now arrives by. Drawn plain: no plaque, no lettering, no flags.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Poplars along the pea fieldsOf the place
Lahaul's poplars: tall, slim trees planted in rows round the villages and along the fields of green peas and potatoes, the valley's cash crops — Sissu's fields on the Chandra are lined with them.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Sissu 8

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

Say hello to Sissu's Zobus

Zobu in Sissu'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

Sissu'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 Sissu 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.

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

Profile

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

SVG PNG