Udaipur

Why this icon The City Palace on the east bank of Lake Pichola — a façade of balconies, towers and cupolas. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

Golden hour on Lake Pichola: the City Palace's long wall of balconies and cupolas turns gold as the sun goes down behind the Aravalli, people sit on a ghat's steps at its foot, and a boat glides past, a traveller in its bow with a camera raised, as egrets fly home.

Why this picture

The City Palace stands 244 m long and 30 m high on the east shore of Lake Pichola, a white wall of jharokha balconies, towers and domed cupolas that the evening light turns gold; bathing ghats step down into the lake along its shore. Boats leave from its jetty at Bansi Ghat for sunset rides past it, while egrets fly home over the lake.

The sky wears Leheriya, from Rajasthan.

The motion

The water lines run, row against row; the boat rocks on the water; egrets fly across the sky and others skim low over the lake the other way; the sun's rays breathe. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Sky #9CDCF9

Lagoon #34C2D7

Ocean #0072BC

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

Another moment in Udaipur

A second scene: another true moment at Udaipur, 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 winter morning on Lake Pichola: a traveller sits on the steps of a lakeside ghat looking out at Jag Mandir, the island palace, pale in the morning sun against the Aravalli; a kingfisher watches the water from a post, a boatman waits in his boat by the steps and egrets fly over.

Why this moment

Jag Mandir (17th century) is the palace on Lake Pichola's southern island, a domed pavilion over a long garden front lined with stone elephants, with the Aravalli hills closing in round the lake. Ghats step down to the water along the old city's shore, small boats cross the lake, and egrets and white-throated kingfishers fish it; winter mornings are clear.

The motion

Egrets fly across the whole sky; a cloud bank drifts over the far hill; the lake's rows run against each other; a boatman's moored boat rocks on the water; the sun's rays turn; the bougainvillea 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.

The sound of Udaipur

What you hear in Udaipur, each on a card of its own. Nothing plays until you tap.

Ghat steps
Water slapping softly against old stone steps at the lake's edge, then a kingfisher's rattle and its dive.
Its own sound · 4 s
Lake boat
Golden evening on the lake of palaces: oars dipping slowly, water lapping a wooden boat, egrets skimming low, pigeons on stone steps.
Its air · 10 s

Udaipur in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Udaipur, 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

Jag MandirMonument
Jag Mandir, the island palace on Lake Pichola (17th century), in yellow sandstone and marble: the domed Gul Mahal over a white colonnade of cusped arches, eight stone elephants on its landing steps.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Kathputli, a pair of string puppetsOf the place
Kathputli, Rajasthan's string puppets, danced nightly in Udaipur's old havelis: carved wooden heads with big eyes, bodies of cloth, the women in flared skirts without legs, worked by two strings from head and waist.
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The glass peacock of Mor ChowkOf the place
Mor Chowk, the Peacock Courtyard of the City Palace: three peacocks modelled in high relief and faced with coloured glass, each in its own niche, its tail fanned behind it; they are said to hold 5,000 pieces of glass in green, gold and blue, and were set there in Maharana Sajjan Singh's time. Bagore ki Haveli keeps two glass peacocks more.
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A Bhavai dancer, a tower of pitchers on her headOf the place
Bhavai, a Rajasthani dance of balance and one of Udaipur's own: a veiled dancer turns with seven or nine brass pitchers stacked on her head, her feet on the rim of a brass plate, a glass or a sword's edge. It is danced every evening in the folk show at Bagore ki Haveli. (The Gujarati folk theatre of the same name is another thing.)
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Also drawn for Udaipur 33

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

Say hello to Udaipur's Zobus

Zobu in Udaipur'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 28

Udaipur'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 Udaipur 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

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

SVG

City symbols

Udaipur’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

Udaipur’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 Udaipur 5

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

The map we made for Udaipur

56 things to do around our Zostel, two walks and ten 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 90

Every spot on the Udaipur 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.

The story

Why this picture

The motion

Colour

Another moment in Udaipur

The story

Why this moment

The motion

In the picture

Its files

The sound of Udaipur

Udaipur in symbols

Also drawn for Udaipur 33

Say hello to Udaipur's Zobus

Their faces, poses and moves 28

Faces 20

Poses 8

The kit

Also made for Udaipur 5

The map we made for Udaipur

Its pieces on the map 90

Landmarks 22

Food 20

Culture and nights 4

Craft and shopping 6

Nature 21

Getting around 6

Quests 10

Home 1

On the map

Udaipur

Balconies and cupolas crowd Pichola's shore. Take the boat. Look up.

The story

Why this picture

The motion

Colour

Another moment in Udaipur

The story

Why this moment

The motion

In the picture

Its files

The sound of Udaipur

Udaipur in symbols

Also drawn for Udaipur 33

Say hello to Udaipur's Zobus

Their faces, poses and moves 28

Faces 20

Poses 8

The kit

Also made for Udaipur 5

The map we made for Udaipur

Its pieces on the map 90

Landmarks 22

Food 20

Culture and nights 4

Craft and shopping 6

Nature 21

Getting around 6

Quests 10

Home 1

On the map